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Underground in Brisvegas: can an electronic dance music artist thrive outside the city?

  • Written by: Sebastien Darchen, Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
imageHeidi Mellington, performing here with Anthony Smith in Dizzygothica in 2007, has spoken about the importance of a supportive local music scene for emerging artists. Rachel Cobcroft/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Electronic dance music (EDM) is an increasingly popular music genre. Electronic music can be defined as a sound dominated by electronic instruments...

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Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world

  • Written by: Hussein Dia, Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
imageElectric cars will shake up everything from jobs to tax.Bob Dass/Flickr, CC BY-NC

China, the world’s largest car market, is working on a timetable to stop the production and sale of vehicles powered by fossil fuels. India has declared its intention to make all new vehicles electric by 2030.

Like Britain and France, these two markets are...

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Sleep and the restless preschooler: why policies need to change

  • Written by: Karen Thorpe, Professor of Psychology, The University of Queensland
imageNot all young children want – or are able – to sleep at the same time.Shutterstock

The legislated regulatory standards for sleep, rest and relaxation in early childhood education and care have changed this week. What are the changes and why have these been made?

From October 1, the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education...

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Vital Signs: the data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: the RBA cash rate, new car sales, building approvals and a worrying survey from UBS.

Data released this...

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  1. Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united
  2. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...
  3. Health Check: do we lose gains from exercise as our bodies get used to it?
  4. Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package
  5. Life frozen in time under an electron microscope gets a Nobel Prize
  6. Alternative facts do exist: beliefs, lies and politics
  7. Two puppeteers walk into a Japanese bathhouse in The Dark Inn
  8. Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree
  9. Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C
  10. Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket
  11. The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper
  12. Passion and pain: why secessionist movements rarely succeed
  13. Room sharing is the new flat sharing
  14. Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
  15. Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
  16. How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs
  17. When it comes to the NBN, we keep having the same conversations over and over
  18. Is faster profit growth essential for a pick-up in wages growth?
  19. Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws
  20. Australia's $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
  21. Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?
  22. First act of the family law review should be using research we already have
  23. Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
  24. For whom the bell tolls: cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day
  25. Beyond sanctions: a diplomatic path to peace on the Korean Peninsula
  26. Driverless vehicles could bring out the best – or worst – in our cities by transforming land use
  27. Curious Kids: How do satellites get back to Earth?
  28. From beards to best friends, it's time to give 'fag hags' their badge of honour
  29. Should you be 'nudged' into better health without you even knowing?
  30. Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts
  31. An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize
  32. Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form
  33. Turnbull proposes tougher security measures
  34. Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS
  35. Magpies can form friendships with people – here's how
  36. People diagnosed with the same mental illness can be quite different, and research must address this
  37. The philosopher who was too hot for Playboy
  38. Price still up in the air as gas producers sign supply deal
  39. Circadian rhythm Nobel: what they discovered and why it matters
  40. Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up
  41. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  42. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  43. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  44. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  45. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
  46. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
  47. How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers
  48. How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared
  49. How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
  50. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature

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