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Big gas shortage looming, but government stays hand on export controls

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageJosh Frydenberg, Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull at a press conference announcing the possibility of a serious gas shortfall.AAP/Mick Tsikas

The government has issued another warning to gas producers but held off pulling its export control trigger, despite two new reports warning of potential severe local supply shortages.

The Australian Energy...

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Yes, Australia will have a space agency. What does this mean? Experts respond

  • Written by: Andrew Dempster, Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
imageA space agency will allow Australia to sit at the table with NASA, ESA and other global agencies. from www.shutterstock.com

In front of an expectant audience of more than 4,000 international delegates attending the International Aeronautical Congress in Adelaide, today Senator Simon Birmingham - representing Minister for Industry, Innovation and...

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Introverts think they won't like being leaders but they are capable

  • Written by: Peter O'Connor, Associate Professor, Business and Management, Queensland University of Technology
imageCompared to extraverts, introverts tend to be relatively passive, quiet and reserved.www.shutterstock.com

Introverts often don’t think they will enjoy leadership roles and so are less likely to go for the top job, new research finds. In fact, introverts in our study thought they would be worried and distressed in leadership situations.

Whether...

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Courageous quests: Keats, art and refugees

  • Written by: Amanda Frances Johnson, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing Program, University of Melbourne
imageArt and Seek Workshop participants examining locks of Keats’s hair and the painting P.B. Shelley in the Baths of Caracalla by Joseph Severn. A. Frances Johnson

The great sensualist Romantic poet John Keats arrived in Rome in late 1820 with his friend, painter Joseph Severn. This was not to be a grand tour of Italy in the typical sense....

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