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Fossil fuel emissions hit record high after unexpected growth: Global Carbon Budget 2017

  • Written by Pep Canadell, CSIRO Scientist, and Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project, CSIRO

Global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels and industry are on track to grow by 2% in 2017, reaching a new record high of 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, according to the 2017 Global Carbon Budget, released today.

The rise follows a remarkable three-year period during which global CO₂ emissions barely grew, despite strong global...

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Twitter analysis shows Queensland Labor has put Adani behind them

  • Written by Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

There’s still plenty of time to go in the current Queensland state election campaign, but early signs from the social media trail offer some encouragement for Labor premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. She is receiving considerably more retweets than Liberal Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls, and chatter about the controversial Adani mine project has...

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Hanson loses replacement senator – before he is even sworn in

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageFraser Anning (centre) was escorted into the Senate by David Leyonhjelm and Cory Bernardi.Lukas Coch/AAP

Pauline Hanson has lost one of her four Senate votes, in a dramatic blow-up with the man she unsuccessfully pressured to step aside to allow Malcolm Roberts back into the parliament.

On Monday, Queensland’s Fraser Anning replaced Roberts,...

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What we can learn from the Warren Buffett of the web

  • Written by Paul X. McCarthy, Adjunct Professor, UNSW

Softbank’s founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son, or “Masa” as he is known outside Japan, has often been called “the Bill Gates of Japan”. Today, I suggest a more appropriate moniker may be the Warren Buffett of the Web.

Strategic and with an eye for long-term value, Masa has led Softbank to become an online giant...

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  1. With One Nation on the march, a change to compulsory voting might backfire on Labor
  2. Simon Leys, navigator between worlds – a unique Australian intellectual
  3. Cups, lingerie and home-made pads: what are the reusable options for managing your period?
  4. Cormann and Shorten reach deal on citizenship disclosure
  5. Hemp can now be sold as a food in Australia (and it's super good for you)
  6. The gender pay gap is wider in the arts than in other industries
  7. Why big projects like the Adani coal mine won't transform regional Queensland
  8. Small potent doses of illegal drugs are evading authorities but having a huge impact
  9. Portable units and temporary leases free up vacant land for urgent housing needs
  10. What causes breast cancer in women? What we know, don't know and suspect
  11. 'Successful failures' – the problem with food banks
  12. Support for standardised tests boils down to beliefs about who benefits from it
  13. Three ways robots can save lives in war
  14. Labor increases Newspoll lead to 55-45% as Shorten moves within striking distance as better PM
  15. Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls
  16. Coalition loses majority after Alexander resigns. Qld polling and preferences
  17. From Public Confessions to Public Trials: The Complexities of the Weinstein Effect
  18. Extreme right Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexual encounter with 14-y/o girl
  19. Liberal John Alexander likely to quit imminently
  20. Explainer: what exactly is a living wage?
  21. Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups?
  22. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the never-ending citizenship crisis
  23. Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?
  24. Flowers, remembrance and the art of war
  25. Brian Cox is a world record holding 'rockstar scientist'. Here's why
  26. UN slams Australia’s human rights record
  27. How the 'Warwick egg incident' of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided
  28. Some remote Australian communities have drinking water for only nine hours a day
  29. Why children need to be taught to think critically about Remembrance Day
  30. Friday essay: Mapplethorpe and me
  31. Vital Signs: business conditions are peachy, so why aren't businesses investing?
  32. Sharing economy sounds caring, but let's put it to the ethical city test
  33. Those noisy crested pigeons use their unique feathers to sound an alarm
  34. Can 'brown fat' really help with weight loss?
  35. Sharkie told by Turnbull she may have to go to High Court
  36. Grattan on Friday: Voters just want citizenship crisis fixed – but it isn't that easy
  37. Politics podcast: swinging into the Sunshine State's election
  38. Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
  39. We made great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancer
  40. Could we nationalise the superannuation system even if we wanted to?
  41. The ACCC investigation into the NBN will be useful. But it's too little, too late
  42. Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars?
  43. Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
  44. Princes, power and purges: the Saudi royal family consolidates its rule
  45. Australian companies should cultivate local tech workers not play the 457 visa game
  46. Islands lost to the waves: how rising seas washed away part of Micronesia's 19th-century history
  47. If Queenslanders vote on economic issues the Labor government is looking good
  48. Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
  49. As we remember the Russian revolution, The Death of Stalin reminds us of its brutal apogee
  50. As Socceroos face moment of truth, let's remember our football triumph of 1967

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