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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security

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

Michelle Grattan speaks with the University of Canberra’s vice-chancellor, Deep Saini, about the week in Australian politics. They discuss the government’s latest message on solving the energy crisis, Tony Abbott’s objection to Macklemore performing at the NRL Grand Final, same-sex marriage campaigners taking to bulk SMS and...

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'No one is steering the ship': five lessons learned (or not) since the SA blackout

  • Written by: Kate Griffiths, Associate, Grattan Institute

A year ago, the power system went down in South Australia. Homes and businesses across the state were without electricity for hours, some for days. While its specific causes have already been worked through, the nation’s most widespread blackout in decades quickly became a symbol of “Australia’s energy crisis”.

One year on,...

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What Twitter can learn from that time Coca Cola changed its formula

  • Written by: Collette Snowden, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
imageTwitter is experimenting with 280 characters.Shutterstock

The 140-character message limit has defined Twitter. But the company is now experimenting with its format, doubling the length of some users’ tweets to 280 characters. Why are they taking such an enormous risk, playing with the characteristic that defines and differentiates the...

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The pathologies of populism

  • Written by: John Keane, Professor of Politics, University of Sydney

During the past year, The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network, a global partnership of researchers, journalists, activists, policymakers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy, have published a lengthy series of scholarly reflections on the causes and consequences of populism.

The following remarks aim to summarise the...

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  2. Australia needs new insolvency laws to encourage small businesses
  3. Debris from the 2011 tsunami carried hundreds of species across the Pacific Ocean
  4. Googling for a new dentist or therapist? Here's how to look past the glowing testimonials
  5. Revenge porn laws may not be capturing the right people
  6. Friday essay: Dr Joe Gumbula, the ancestral chorus, and how we value Indigenous knowledges
  7. Dear diary: the Sun never set on the Arctic Mars simulation
  8. Initial Coin Offerings are disrupting how startups are funded - but what are they?
  9. Grattan on Friday: Careful, Mr Dutton, Donald Trump might hear you
  10. Research Check: will binge-watching TV increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease and diabetes?
  11. Hugh Hefner, Playboy, and being a man during the Cold War
  12. Cycling and politics: Australia’s World Road Championships selection controversy
  13. Full response from lead author of study exploring link between TV-viewing and death from inflammatory causes
  14. Five assumptions we make about North Korea – and why they're wrong
  15. Reach for the sky: why safety must rule as tall buildings aim higher
  16. Baby boomer women make up for lost study time and head back to university
  17. Unpacking sexually transmitted ethics
  18. A year since the SA blackout, who's winning the high-wattage power play?
  19. Gravitational Waves arrive in Europe
  20. From tourism to terrorists, fast-moving space industries create new ethical challenges
  21. Young Australians are engaged in political issues, but unsure how democracy works
  22. 'Bones' McGhie, a cigarette and nostalgia for a greater game
  23. We may survive the Anthropocene, but need to avoid a radioactive 'Plutocene'
  24. What economics has to say about same-sex marriage
  25. Health Check: do we have to clean out our pores?
  26. Why Australia doesn't face sovereign risk in the gas markets
  27. Politics podcast: Rob Sitch on Utopia and political satire
  28. Giant marsupials once migrated across an Australian Ice Age landscape
  29. New Zealand's first-past-the-post 'hangover' could limit coalition options
  30. Does opera deserve its privileged status within arts funding?
  31. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a new podcast from The Conversation
  32. Riverfire, sonic awe and the pornography of war
  33. We're investing heavily in urban greening, so how are our cities doing?
  34. Renewables will be cheaper than coal in the future. Here are the numbers
  35. Six common questions about eating carbs during pregnancy answered
  36. Curious Kids: How do we get allergic to food?
  37. Kia ora: how Māori borrowings shape New Zealand English
  38. Parents of teenage daughters more likely to divorce: study
  39. To avoid crisis, the gas market needs a steady steer, not an emergency swerve
  40. When a 'good death' was often painful: euthanasia through the ages
  41. How the government and One Nation may use media reforms to clip the ABC's wings
  42. Mounting housing stress underscores need for expert council to guide wayward policymaking
  43. Bad teeth? Here's when you can and can't blame your parents
  44. Turnbull loses 20th successive Newspoll, 54-46, but Yes to SSM support falls
  45. Yes case's SMS campaign was not invasive
  46. Sex and spirit: the many faces of ecstasy
  47. Don't be distracted by an SMS in the same-sex marriage survey debate
  48. Why US sports stars are taking a knee against Trump
  49. The rise of the corporate campus
  50. UK gene editing breakthrough could land an Aussie in jail for 15 years: here's why our laws need to catch up

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