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Editor's note
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The first season of the AFL's national women's league kicks off tonight with a match between Carlton and Collingwood. But while the AFL wants to present the competition as a "revolution", women's football doesn't begin with the siren tonight – it has a long, rich history stretching back more than a century.
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Top story
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The Carlton ladies football team, 1933.
Leader, August 19, 1933
Rob Hess, Victoria University
There has so far been scant understanding of – or credit given to – the historical background to the creation of the AFL women's league.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull should walk away from the deal he struck for the US to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.
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Yee-Fui Ng, RMIT University
The struggle for political equality has shaped Australian democracy. But it’s undermined by having a political donations system that benefits the rich at the expense of other Australians.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The US embassy in Canberra has been forced to reaffirm that Donald Trump's undertaking to honour the refugee deal stands.
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Martin Payne, University of Sydney
A combination of transit-oriented centres, inclusionary zoning and a special rate on land instead of stamp duty could make housing more affordable by cutting congestion, development and travel costs.
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Environment + Energy
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Frank Jotzo, Australian National University
Nobody in business wants to touch new "clean" coal plants, which means taxpayers would be left to foot the billion-dollar bills.
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Andrew Blakers, Australian National University; Bin Lu, Australian National University; Matthew Stocks, Australian National University
The Turnbull government is funding energy storage as a crucial missing piece of the electricity grid puzzle. Analysis suggests an affordable, fully renewable grid doesn't require any heroic assumptions.
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Science + Technology
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Richard Matthews, University of Adelaide
3D printing still exists in a legal grey area. This area is slowly being defined as courts prosecute the first cases but, is current copyright and criminal law keeping up with the technology?
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Martin Pera, University of Melbourne; Megan Munsie, University of Melbourne
Human-animal hybrids - or 'chimeras' - might sound strange, but they offer great hope for new life saving therapies, as long as key ethical boundaries are respected.
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Education
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Frank Niklas, University of Melbourne; Caroline Cohrssen; Collette Tayler, University of Melbourne
Attending early education and getting learning support from parents can really help get children ready to start school.
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Lorraine Hammond, Edith Cowan University
Many young children can give the false impression that they are learning to read, when in fact they are mostly guessing words from pictures or context. This test will help to identify these students.
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Business + Economy
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Robert Hoffmann, RMIT University; Swee Hoon Chuah
Past studies point to traditional Confucian values and a refugee mentality as a reason for the business success of Chinese people living overseas, our research debunks this.
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Julie Lawson, RMIT University
Scott Morrison has been exploring a UK model for channelling investment via a specialist financial intermediary into new affordable housing provided by landlords with a social purpose. It makes sense.
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Arts + Culture
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Alice Gorman, Flinders University
History is writ large in the remote areas around Woomera and the Nullarbor: from the fossils of microscopic, cell-like creatures to ancient stone tools to the deitrus of rocket tests and the painful legacy of the Maralinga atomic blasts.
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Health + Medicine
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Alison Poulton, University of Sydney
It's not necessarily the case children who are young for their year are being inappropriately diagnosed with ADHD. This is a simplistic analysis.
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Melody Ding, University of Sydney
When we compared the risk of early death between vegetarians and non-vegetarians while controlling for a range of other factors, we did not find any statistical difference.
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