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Editor's note
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It’s been an eventful week; a new government, a new Labor leader and a lot of soul searching in the Australian media. At The Conversation, we’ve been providing an informed and thoughtful post-mortem of the 2019 election, with pieces on everything from how the polls missed the mark, to why Queensland shouldn’t be judged and how our new government can chart a way forward for Australia. We’ve published 99 articles this week, 40 from our politics team alone. We even had a fascinating piece on five ways in which Pentecostalism might shape Scott Morrison as PM.
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Molly Glassey
Digital Editor
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Top story
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Following the deaths of an alarming number Indigenous young people earlier this year, Australian leaders were urged to declare a ‘national crisis’.
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Julia Hurst, University of Melbourne
Policies aimed at reducing youth suicide will fail if they don't acknowledge the cumulative effects of history, associated intergenerational trauma and ongoing violence towards Indigenous Australians.
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Politics + Society
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Roy Hay, Deakin University
With the AFL's indigenous round about to take place, it's important to recognise the full history of Indigenous involvement in the sport, including the many obstacles players faced.
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Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University
Labor supporters despairing of the result of Saturday’s election would do well to recall 2004 – it's the closest parallel with what we have just seen.
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Environment + Energy
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Paul Krummel, CSIRO; Bronwyn Dunse, CSIRO; Nada Derek, CSIRO; Paul Fraser, CSIRO; Paul Steele, CSIRO
For several years, emissions of CFCs have been rising, in apparent defiance of a global ban in place since 2010. A new global detective effort has traced the source to two eastern Chinese provinces.
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Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University
The Queensland Labor government still must approve two outstanding environmental management plans for the Adani mine to go ahead.
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Science + Technology
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Mark Hemer, CSIRO
Waves occur in all sorts of places, and it's possible that waves you might see breaking at the beach are at the end of a very long journey.
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Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney; Jo Condon, University of Melbourne
Even in this fantasy world, geological processes like tectonic plate movement, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions would have built the mountains, carved the rivers, and created vast oceans.
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Aaron J. Cavosie, Curtin University
The origin of Libyan desert glass found scattered in an Egyptian desert has puzzled scientists for years. But a new look at the glass structure reveals its meteoric formation.
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Arts + Culture
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Louise Pryke, Macquarie University
Ennigaldi-Nanna is largely unknown in the modern day. But in 530BC, this Mesopotamian priestess worked to arrange and label various artefacts in the world's first museum.
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Kate Douglas, Flinders University
From Steve Smith's tearful apology to anonymous apps like Whisper, public confessions can be therapeutic, emancipatory, or potentially exploitative.
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Health + Medicine
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Paul Lacaze, Monash University; Jane Tiller, Monash University
As DNA testing becomes cheaper, it becomes more feasible to screen large numbers of healthy people for their risk of disease.
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Cities
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Paul Krummel, CSIRO; Bronwyn Dunse, CSIRO; Nada Derek, CSIRO; Paul Fraser, CSIRO; Paul Steele, CSIRO
For several years, emissions of CFCs have been rising, in apparent defiance of a global ban in place since 2010. A new global detective effort has traced the source to two eastern Chinese provinces.
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John Stanley, University of Sydney; Janet Stanley, University of Melbourne; Peter Brain, National Institute of Economic and Industry Research
State and local governments can't do much about the rapid population growth in Melbourne, but they can take steps to reduce the costs of growing disparities between the outer suburbs and inner city.
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Education
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Dr Rajshri Roy, University of Auckland
Students gain up to 4kg in their first year at university and all the junk food on campus doesn't help. Universities have a responsibility to make healthier foods available to students.
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Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University
Children need to play and discover the world for themselves without too much restriction. Here are some ways we can enhance children's opportunities to do this.
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Business + Economy
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Tracey West, Griffith University
The Australian Labor Party's economic agenda seems to have overlooked three fundamental principles of behavioural economics.
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Cameron Allen, UNSW; Graciela Metternicht, UNSW; Thomas Wiedmann, UNSW
Immigration is neither the problem nor solution in many areas where Australia is off-track, from government debt to environmental action.
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