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Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said during Question Time on Wednesday that the modern Liberal Party ...

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Telling people exactly how voting security works helps defeat election misinformation, experiments suggest. But outside ...

Modern science emerged precisely to deal with the way everything can be manipulated – and scepticism over ‘facts’ goes all the way back to Socrates.

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