Ambitious changes to Canadian conservation law are needed to reverse the decline in biodiversity

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Canadas biodiversity is in decline. Globally, climate change, urbanization, overexploitation of resources and habitat loss are combining to drive biodiversity loss across all ecosystems. The recent biodiversity assessment...

Election Diary: Dutton in third debate gives Labor ammunition for its scare about cuts

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In the leaders third head-to-head encounter, on Nine on Tuesday, Peter Duttons bluntness when pressed on cuts has given ammunition to Labors scare campaign about what a Coalition government might do. When John Howard came...

Leaders trade barbs and well-worn lines in unspectacular third election debate

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Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have met for the third leaders debate of this election campaign, this time on the Nine network. And while the debate traversed much of the same ground as the first two, the quick-fire set...

Dutton promises Coalition would increase defence spending to 3% of GDP ‘within a decade’

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will promise a Coalition government would boost Australias spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP within five years and 3% within a decade. Launching the Coalitions long-awaited defence policy on...

West Africa’s bold trade experiment turns 50: an Ecowas report card

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The Economic Community of West African states (Ecowas) is set to mark 50 years in May 2025. It was established in 1975 by 16 member states. Though seven of the founding leaders had ascended to power through coups...

Smart brain implants are helping people with Parkinson’s and other disorders

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Although the brain is our most complex organ, the ways to treat it have historically been rather simple. Typically, surgeons lesioned (damaged) a structure or a pathway in the hope that this would correct the imbalance...

Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

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\ Emily Hilda Young by Howard Coster. Half-plate film negative, 1932. National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott...