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Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species

  • Written by Brendan Wintle, Professor of Conservation Ecology, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne

Earlier this month, Australia’s outgoing Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews told ABC radio that land clearing is not the biggest threat to Australia’s wildlife. His claim caused a stir among Australia’s biodiversity scientists and conservation professionals, who have plenty of evidence to the contrary.

The ecologist...

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Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region

  • Written by Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
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They may not be co-ordinated, nor linked in any way. But two events in Asia over the next week will help define Australia’s political and security environment for the next period.

First is the convening of the five-yearly Communist Party of China congress. This gets underway on Wednesday with a much-anticipated “work...

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How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target

  • Written by David Blowers, Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute

The Turnbull government has announced its new energy policy, called the National Energy Guarantee (NEG). The NEG contains two new obligations on electricity retailers. The first is to ensure we have enough electricity generation available to meet our needs (the Reliability Guarantee). The second is to drive down the sector’s greenhouse...

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  1. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  2. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  3. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  4. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  5. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  6. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  7. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  8. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  9. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  10. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  11. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  12. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  13. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  14. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  15. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  16. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  17. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  18. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  19. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  20. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  21. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  22. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  23. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  24. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  25. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  26. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  27. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  28. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  29. How Melbourne's west was greened
  30. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  31. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  32. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  33. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  34. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC
  35. Why Trump's decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake
  36. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition leads 52-48 as One Nation slumps. Xenophon tied or ahead in SA's Hartley
  37. Shorten promises $1 billion fund to finance manufacturing enterprises
  38. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government reneging on a clean energy target
  39. #LstTxt Tstmnt: an unsent text message can count as a will, in the right circumstances
  40. Research suggests Tony Abbott's climate views are welcome in the Hunter Valley
  41. As the Clean Energy Target fizzles, what might replace it?
  42. Changes to lure young people into private health insurance won't slow increase in premiums
  43. What the Harvey Weinstein case tells us about sexual assault disclosure
  44. Satellites are giving us a commanding view of Earth's carbon cycle
  45. A matter of trust: the checks and balances schools must have to ensure fair funding for disability
  46. Psychology holds key to getting people out before disaster strikes
  47. Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
  48. Three areas to reform federal-state financial relations
  49. Vital Signs: the spooky mortgage risk signs our bankers are ignoring
  50. How the Liberals can fix their gender problem

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