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Politicians: please ease off on 'announceables' until after the electricity market review

  • Written by: David Blowers, Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
imageCurrent political intervention in the energy market is haphazard and disconnected. chriscrowder_4/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

A series of dramatic events over the past year, most notably the September statewide blackout in South Australia, have revealed an electricity system under strain, and left many Australians worried about the reliability of their...

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An ethical hacker can help you beat a malicious one

  • Written by: Georg Thomas, PhD candidate in information technology, Charles Sturt University
imageNot all hackers can be bad for an organisation: the white hat or ethical hacker can help.Shutterstock/napocska

The recent spate of cyber attacks on computer systems across the world shows how some organisations are not doing enough to protect their systems against malicious hackers.

But if organisations had engaged the services of an ethical hacker...

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We should levy Facebook and Google to fund journalism – here's how

  • Written by: Ben Eltham, Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University

There was a fascinating moment towards the end of Wednesday’s hearings of the Senate Inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism.

Journalist Michael West was at the stand. West’s experience is in many ways emblematic. Once a marquee investigator for Fairfax Media with multiple scoops to his name, West was made redundant in one...

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Should I stop taking Prozac if I’m pregnant?

  • Written by: Anne Buist, Director of Women’s Mental Health at Austin Health – Northpark Private Hospital, Professor, University of Melbourne
imageDeciding whether or not to continue on medication in pregnancy is always a balancing act.from shutterstock.com

Women, and perhaps their doctors, may be concerned when they see reports of a study showing an association between taking fluoxetine, an antidepressant also known as Prozac, during pregnancy and birth defects in children.

These findings...

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  2. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's budget sales job
  3. With its 2017 budget the government is still discouraging women
  4. Explainer: why we should be turning waste into fuel
  5. Cave dig shows the earliest Australians enjoyed a coastal lifestyle
  6. The Victorian firefighter dispute comes to a resolution, but for how long?
  7. Weekly quiz: which US president was impeached by the House?
  8. Full response from the AiGroup for a FactCheck on how Australia's top tax rates compare internationally
  9. FactCheck Q A: does Australia have one of the highest progressive tax rates in the developed world?
  10. We should not commit combat troops to the Afghanistan conflict – here's why
  11. There are jobs in journalism, just not traditional ones
  12. Vital Signs: dismal wages growth makes a joke of budget forecasts
  13. Friday essay: the feminist picture book revolution
  14. Explainer: what is a special counsel and what will he investigate in the Trump administration?
  15. Maybe we can, but should we? Deciding whether to bring back extinct species
  16. Australians don't loiter in public space – the legacy of colonial control by design
  17. Climate Council: climate, health and economics are against Carmichael mine
  18. Study confirms 'flushing' blocked fallopian tubes can improve fertility and reduce need for IVF
  19. Few Australians trust social media with personal information but do little about it
  20. Grattan on Friday: Budget-making is undermined by the continuous election campaign
  21. Politics podcast: Dennis Richardson on telling it like it is
  22. Shinzo Abe pushes ahead on constitutional reform amid heated debate within Japan
  23. Four ways junk food brands befriend kids online
  24. $89b shipbuilding plan is a major step forward – but sovereignty remains a problem
  25. Challenges persist for multiple legal actions regarding MH17
  26. The - Roger - Stone Age Man
  27. We don't have a gas shortfall worth worrying about
  28. Anti-Chinese and anti-Christian sentiment is not new in Indonesia
  29. Programs that prepare students for university study may no longer be free
  30. FactCheck: do Australian banks have double the return on equity of banks in other developed economies?
  31. Health Check: why can you feel groggy days after an operation?
  32. Australian fashion is thriving, so where are the policies to take it to the world?
  33. I'm not a racist, but: how we monitor discrimination
  34. What comes first: the free-range chicken or the free-range egg?
  35. Two pictures of rental housing stress and vulnerability zero in on areas of need
  36. Get used to your commute: data confirms houses near jobs are too expensive
  37. The lengthy childhood of endangered orangutans is written in their teeth
  38. New Zealand's Alpine Fault reveals extreme underground heat and fluid pressure
  39. Writing the WA wheatbelt, a place of radical environmental change
  40. Beyond Brexit: ‘Global Britain’ looks to the emerging Anglosphere for new opportunities
  41. Science or Snake oil: do Band-Aids really 'heal cuts twice as fast'?
  42. Guilt-free online shopping: can parcel deliveries ever be truly carbon-neutral?
  43. Expert culture has killed the innovator in workplaces
  44. Ratings agency S P keeps Australia's AAA rating but doubtful about government's surplus timetable
  45. Physicists use Einstein's 'spooky' entanglement to invent super-sensitive gravitational wave detector
  46. This South Pacific island of rubbish shows why we need to quit our plastic habit
  47. White House under siege as scandal follows scandal – and it won't end any time soon
  48. The ABC's Ask the Doctor sends mixed messages about obesity
  49. Guy Ritchie's King Arthur – a triumph of modern spectacle
  50. Scrounging for money: how the world's great writers made a living

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