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does your driving speed make any difference to your car's emissions?

  • Written by Ralph Sims, Professor, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University
does your driving speed make any difference to your car's emissions?SP Photo/Shutterstockdoes your driving speed make any difference to your car's emissions?CC BY-ND

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Does reducing speed reduce emissions from the average car?

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If Australia really wants to tackle mental health after coronavirus, we must take action on homelessness

  • Written by Vaughan J Carr, Professor of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales; Adjunct Professor, Monash University, UNSW
If Australia really wants to tackle mental health after coronavirus, we must take action on homelessnessShutterstock

The COVID-19 pandemic has opened fault lines in social, economic and health-care policy in Australia. One area in which all three converge is homelessness.

It’s almost impossible to practise self-isolation and good hygiene if you’re living on the streets or moving from place to place. This puts homeless people at higher risk...

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Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia

  • Written by Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University

“What’s in it for us?”

This is the first question Prime Minister Scott Morrison should have asked himself when US President Donald Trump invited him to join an expanded G7 gathering at Camp David in September.

The invitation came directly to Morrison in a phone call from Trump on June 2.

This was a week after the death of George...

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'Forced' evictions eat away at a Manila community as developer spares the golf course next door

  • Written by Redento B. Recio, Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, University of Melbourne
'Forced' evictions eat away at a Manila community as developer spares the golf course next doorOne of the entry points to San Roque, with a makeshift guard shelter on the left. Kim Dovey, Author provided

– Ricky sits at one of half-a-dozen entrances to the San Roque settlement in Metro Manila’s North Triangle district. Ricky (not his real name) is part of a large team that guards the settlement 24 hours a day with two specific...

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  2. You better hope your work cleaner is one of the few who has time to do a thorough job
  3. bushfires destroyed the writing retreat of an Aussie literary icon
  4. how to protect your kids from in-person sexual abuse
  5. how to protect your kids from online sexual abuse
  6. how would they bring the International Space Station back down to Earth?
  7. racism, COVID-19, and the inequality that fuels these parallel pandemics
  8. Black Lives Matter outrage must drive police reform in Aotearoa-New Zealand too
  9. How Marriage Therapy Help Your Relationships
  10. How far away can dogs smell and hear?
  11. Student teachers must pass a literacy and numeracy test before graduating – it's unfair and costly
  12. Local news sources are closing across Australia. We are tracking the devastation (and some reasons for hope)
  13. 20% of pregnant Australian women don't receive the recommended mental health screening
  14. The housing boom propelled inequality, but a coronavirus housing bust will skyrocket it
  15. Desire Lines is a small love story inside an epic tale
  16. Businesses get extension for instant asset write-off
  17. Economists back wage freeze 21-19 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey
  18. Free childcare ends July 12, with sector losing JobKeeper but receiving temporary payment
  19. Labor trails federally and in Queensland; Biden increases lead over Trump
  20. New Zealand hits zero active coronavirus cases. Here are 5 measures to keep it that way
  21. why my battle for access to the 'Palace letters' should matter to all Australians
  22. Grindr is deleting its 'ethnicity filter'. But racism is still rife in online dating
  23. do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?
  24. Spare change? Cashless transactions could end the cultural legacy of the coin
  25. We modelled the future of Leadbeater’s possum habitat and found bushfires, not logging, pose the greatest threat
  26. why do we have boogers?
  27. the promise and peril of a Pacific tourism bubble
  28. Number of Australia's vulnerable children is set to double as COVID-19 takes its toll
  29. We've discovered how these deadly bacteria use a common sugar to spread through the body. It could help us stop them
  30. what can go wrong when governments let algorithms make the decisions
  31. Michelle Grattan on recession, the HomeBuilder program and Morrison's phone call with Trump
  32. Why do protests turn violent? It's not just because people are desperate
  33. Let's fix Australia's environment with any pandemic recovery aid – the Kiwis are doing it
  34. Fast moves in India-Australia relations risk pushing millions more into modern slavery
  35. the pandemic has put pressure on many relationships, but here's how to tell if yours will survive
  36. HomeBuilder might be the most-complex least-equitable construction jobs program ever devised
  37. There is no easy path out of coronavirus for live classical music
  38. HomeBuilder misses a chance to make our homes perform better for us and the planet
  39. There may not be enough skilled workers in Australia's pipeline for a post-COVID-19 recovery
  40. Curious Kids: why do we burp?
  41. After Robodebt, it's time to address ParentsNext
  42. High Court decision today on the long legal battle over New Acland Coal mine expansion
  43. Trump's photo op with church and Bible was offensive, but not new
  44. Vital signs. Remembering Alberto Alesina, the father of political economy
  45. here's how green roofs and walls can flourish in Australia
  46. the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars
  47. Pandemic kills Indigenous referendum, delivers likely mortal blow to religious discrimination legislation
  48. Morrison government toughens foreign investment scrutiny to protect 'national security'
  49. In publishing Tom Cotton, the New York Times has made a terrible error of judgment
  50. New Zealand hits a 95% chance of eliminating coronavirus – but we predict new cases will emerge
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