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Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?

  • Written by: Michael West, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

Why, if Adani’s gigantic Carmichael coal project is so on-the-nose for the banks and so environmentally destructive, are the federal and Queensland governments so avid in their support of it?

Once again the absurdity of building the world’s biggest new thermal coal mine was put in stark relief on Monday evening via an ABC Four Corners...

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First act of the family law review should be using research we already have

  • Written by: Renata Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
imageWe already have a great deal of high-quality information about what works, and what doesn't, in our family law system.shutterstock

On September 27, Attorney-General George Brandis commissioned the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) to undertake what he described as “the first comprehensive review of the family law system” since the...

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Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports

  • Written by: Bruce Mountain, Director, Carbon and Energy Markets., Victoria University

The International Energy Agency (IEA) may be underestimating Australian household energy bills by 25% because of a lack of accurate data from the federal government.

The Paris-based IEA produces official quarterly energy statistics for the 30 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), on which policymakers...

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For whom the bell tolls: cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day

  • Written by: John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University
imageOn the prowl in the outback.Hugh McGregor/Arid Recovery, Author provided

Cats kill more than a million birds every day across Australia, according to our new estimate – the first robust attempt to quantify the problem on a nationwide scale.

By combining data on the cat population, hunting rates and spatial distribution, we calculate that they...

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  2. Driverless vehicles could bring out the best – or worst – in our cities by transforming land use
  3. Curious Kids: How do satellites get back to Earth?
  4. From beards to best friends, it's time to give 'fag hags' their badge of honour
  5. Should you be 'nudged' into better health without you even knowing?
  6. Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts
  7. An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize
  8. Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form
  9. Turnbull proposes tougher security measures
  10. Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS
  11. Magpies can form friendships with people – here's how
  12. People diagnosed with the same mental illness can be quite different, and research must address this
  13. The philosopher who was too hot for Playboy
  14. Price still up in the air as gas producers sign supply deal
  15. Circadian rhythm Nobel: what they discovered and why it matters
  16. Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up
  17. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  18. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  19. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  20. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  21. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
  22. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
  23. How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers
  24. How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared
  25. How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
  26. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature
  27. Mercury from the northern hemisphere is ending up in Australia
  28. After Charlottesville, how we define tolerance becomes a key question
  29. Drug resistance: how we keep track of whether antibiotics are being used responsibly
  30. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  31. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  32. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
  33. Why we should pay people to stop smoking
  34. From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world
  35. I've always wondered: Why don't hippos get cholera?
  36. What happened to our promised leisure time? And will we find it in the smart city?
  37. Guide to the Classics: Dante’s Divine Comedy
  38. Three charts on: the great Australian wealth gap
  39. Sassy, zany and easy-going: the abundance of fun in digital help
  40. FactCheck: will Safe Schools be 'mandatory' if same-sex marriage is legalised?
  41. Ambae volcano's crater lakes make it a serious threat to Vanuatu
  42. Revealed today, Elon Musk's new space vision took us from Earth to Mars, and back home again
  43. Australian regulators have finally made a move on initial coin offerings
  44. Australia's new national space agency will help students reach for the stars in STEM
  45. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security
  46. 'No one is steering the ship': five lessons learned (or not) since the SA blackout
  47. What Twitter can learn from that time Coca Cola changed its formula
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