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A brief history of Al Gore's climate missions to Australia

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Al Gore has been visiting Australia this week – partly because he has a new film to promote, but also because he and Australian climate policy have had a surprisingly long entanglement. Given that this year is likely to be a bloody one as far as climate policy goes, don’t be surprised if he’s back again before 2017 is out.

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Got pre-diabetes? Here's five things to eat or avoid to prevent type 2 diabetes

  • Written by: Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
imageLifestyle changes can prevent full-blown type 2 diabetes. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Pre-diabetes is diagnosed when your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be classified as having type 2 diabetes. Pre-diabetes is an early alert that your diabetes risk is now very high. It is ten to 20 times greater compared to the...

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Memo to COAG: Australia is already awash with gas

  • Written by: Dylan McConnell, Researcher at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne

Federal, state and territory energy ministers are gathering today in Brisbane for the tenth meeting of the COAG Energy Council. In the wake of the Finkel Review, and against a backdrop of rising electricity and gas prices, they have much to discuss.

Some of the focus will certainly be on gas policy and prices. Earlier this week, the federal...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull and the 'sensible centre'

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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The University of Canberra’s deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president (academic), Nicholas Klomp, and professorial fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics – including how Malcolm Turnbull went on his overseas trips and his London speech about Liberal Party founder Robert Menzies being in the sensible centre,...

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  1. Business Briefing: are our standards dropping in the workplace?
  2. Explainer: what are 'creepshots' and what can we do about them?
  3. Four outdated assumptions prevent progress on affordable housing – to everyone's cost
  4. Student employment and inflexible university policies drive online drop out
  5. Publish and don’t perish – how to keep rare species' data away from poachers
  6. Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy
  7. Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'
  8. The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy
  9. Grattan on Friday: Hanson's 'outsider' politics a challenge for Turnbull as he sits in 'sensible centre'
  10. Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey
  11. Platform co-ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives
  12. The Conversation attends Global Fact 4, with fact-checkers from around the world
  13. How a special forces 'band of brothers' culture leads to civilian deaths in war
  14. Are Australia's native pigeons sitting ducks?
  15. The off-topic Conversation #128
  16. How people can best make the transition to cool future cities
  17. How to maintain the balance between boundaries and freedom in secondary school parenting
  18. Why you should eat a plant-based diet, but that doesn't mean being a vegetarian
  19. Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs
  20. Explainer: how Australia's military justice system works
  21. How empathy can make or break a troll
  22. Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance
  23. Network Ten's future is all about media power, not economics
  24. Can property survive the great climate transition?
  25. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  26. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  27. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
  28. How many people can Australia feed?
  29. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  30. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  31. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  32. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  33. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  34. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  35. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  36. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  37. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  38. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  39. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  40. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  41. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  42. What actually is a good city?
  43. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  44. How we change the organisms that infect us
  45. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  46. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  47. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  48. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  49. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  50. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books

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