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Here's what social media data can tell us about the performance of Australian cities

  • Written by: Leonie Pearson, Adjunct Associate, University of Canberra

The Australian government’s new Smart Cities Plan: National Cities Performance Framework identified “professional networks” as one indicator for measuring the progress of Australia’s largest cities.

It has based the indicator on social media data gathered from LinkedIn. This is the first case of government really using...

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Western Australian researchers get cut off from nationally funded research cloud

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageAccess to Nectar is looking worrying for WA researchers. kaspri/shutterstock

Researchers based in Western Australia can no longer directly access nationally funded resources on the Nectar Research Cloud. In an email sent to researchers in WA, Nectar announced that this decision was taken because the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, originally...

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Two centuries of continuous volcanic eruption may have triggered the end of the ice age

  • Written by: Joe McConnell, Research Professor, and Director of the Ultra-Trace Chemistry Laboratory, Desert Research Institute
imageThe Mt. Takeha volcano in west Antartica rises more than 2,000 metres above the surrounding ice sheet. Wikimedia commons

Around 25,000 years ago, during a period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, ice covered much of the world’s landmasses. Comparatively weaker sunlight, large continental ice sheets, and very low amounts of carbon dioxide in...

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Has APRA just outsourced its job?

  • Written by: Pat McConnell, Honorary Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority APRA has announced an independent inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, “focusing on governance, culture and accountability frameworks and practices within the group”.

Hold on a minute. Isn’t that what APRA should have been doing all along? According to the principles of...

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  9. Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on media reform
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  11. Another day, another scandal: CBA blames customers for identity theft
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  17. Universities must act now on sustainability goals
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