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We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars

  • Written by: David Coward, Associate professor, University of Western Australia
imageThe Zadko telescope was set to study the optical glow following a gamma ray burst. John moore, Author provided

Thursday August 17 this year started out as an ordinary day but our lives would be transformed into a frantic world of agony and ecstasy, bordering on madness.

It all began with an email alert from LIGO, the Laser Interferometer...

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Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The government is set to unveil its long-awaited energy plan that would scrap subsidies for renewables and impose obligations on power companies to source a certain proportion of “reliable” supply.

While the plan emphasises reliability and reducing power prices, the government is also confident it would allow Australia to meet its...

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Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects

  • Written by: Phil Lewis, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
imageThe PBO has likely overestimated future personal income tax revenue.Shutterstock

The federal government’s return to a budgetary surplus by 2020/21 will mainly be due to a projected increase in personal income tax revenue, according to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO).

The PBO modelling shows that people in the middle of the...

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Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy

  • Written by: Paul Henman, Associate Professor, Digital Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
imageThe government doesn't need a giant biometric database.Alexandru Chiriac/Shutterstock

Governments seem to think that the only way to protect national security is to own as much data about the public as possible, but this is not the case.

The push in Australia to create a national registry of driving licence photographs has been criticised for...

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  1. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  2. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  3. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  4. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  5. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  6. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  7. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  8. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  9. How Melbourne's west was greened
  10. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  11. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  12. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  13. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  14. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC
  15. Why Trump's decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake
  16. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition leads 52-48 as One Nation slumps. Xenophon tied or ahead in SA's Hartley
  17. Shorten promises $1 billion fund to finance manufacturing enterprises
  18. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government reneging on a clean energy target
  19. #LstTxt Tstmnt: an unsent text message can count as a will, in the right circumstances
  20. Research suggests Tony Abbott's climate views are welcome in the Hunter Valley
  21. As the Clean Energy Target fizzles, what might replace it?
  22. Changes to lure young people into private health insurance won't slow increase in premiums
  23. What the Harvey Weinstein case tells us about sexual assault disclosure
  24. Satellites are giving us a commanding view of Earth's carbon cycle
  25. A matter of trust: the checks and balances schools must have to ensure fair funding for disability
  26. Psychology holds key to getting people out before disaster strikes
  27. Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
  28. Three areas to reform federal-state financial relations
  29. Vital Signs: the spooky mortgage risk signs our bankers are ignoring
  30. How the Liberals can fix their gender problem
  31. Don't ignore the mobility scooter. It may just be the future of transport
  32. My child has glue ear – what do I do?
  33. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull close to finalising energy package but can he sell it?
  34. This is what our cities need to do to be truly liveable for all
  35. Democratising super would bring more independent voices to the negotiating table
  36. Looking into their computer-generated eyes: dating in virtual reality
  37. Black Lives Matter is a revolutionary peace movement
  38. I've always wondered: why your nose runs when it's cold
  39. Video explainer: at China's 19th National Party Congress, Xi's vision and legacy are at stake
  40. Weighing up lab-grown steak: the problems with eating meat are not Silicon Valley's to solve
  41. Health Check: does drinking alcohol kill the germs it comes into contact with?
  42. Picturing the unimaginable: a new look at the wreck of the Batavia
  43. Australia's species need an independent champion
  44. Eight simple changes to our neighbourhoods can help us age well
  45. Three charts on: disability discrimination in the workplace
  46. New research reveals the origin of Australia’s extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds
  47. Playboy, Brooke Shields and the fetishisation of young girls
  48. How will Amazon navigate Australia's taxation system?
  49. What is mindfulness? Nobody really knows, and that's a problem
  50. Explainer: how do drugs get from the point of discovery to the pharmacy shelf?

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