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The solar panel and battery revolution: how will your state measure up?

  • Written by: Paul Graham, Chief economist, CSIRO energy, CSIRO

A new roadmap for Australia’s electricity networks outlines a national plan to keep the lights on, make sure bills are affordable, and decarbonise our electricity industry by mid-century.

The plan, by CSIRO and Energy Networks Australia, sets out measures that could save households A$414 a year on average, by generating their own electricity...

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The bark side: domestic dogs threaten endangered species worldwide

  • Written by: Tim Doherty, Research Fellow, Deakin University
imageA feral dog chasing a wild boar, Banni grasslands, IndiaChetan Misher/Facebook

Humans and their canine companions share many close bonds. Wolves (Canis lupus) were the first animal domesticated by people, some time between 15,000 and 50,000 years ago.

There are now an estimated 1 billion domestic dogs across their near-global distribution.

Domestic...

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2017 higher education reform: cuts to universities, higher fees for students

  • Written by: Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
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The government have released their proposed higher education reform.

There are some welcome initiatives, such as legislating ongoing support for the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP) which supports access and equity in universities. This will be popular and is a good move for students.

But there are...

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University students to pay more as government looks to $2.8 billion saving

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Coalition government is seeking savings of A$2.8 billion from higher education over the budget period, in another attempt at a major shake-up of Australia’s university sector.

The cost burden on students will be increased and the income threshold for repaying their debt lowered. An efficiency dividend will be imposed on universities, in...

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  9. Missing in action: the ABC and Australia’s screen culture
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  12. We should create cities for slowing down
  13. From bakery to wagashiya: a textbook case of 'moral education' in Japan
  14. Fighting the common fate of humans: to better life and beat death
  15. Climate change could drive coastal food webs to collapse
  16. Fruit juicers and hair brushes are now part of the Internet of (useless) Things
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  18. Queensland Galaxy: 52-48 to Labor as One Nation slumps
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  20. Malcolm Turnbull leaves Julie Bishop in the hot seat in Abdel-Magied affair
  21. How Australia should react to the Trump tax cuts
  22. Government's oil and gas tax response will leave regional communities at a loss
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  27. Evidence mounts for a search further north for missing flight MH370
  28. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's first meeting with Trump
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  33. Merged minor parties chase votes on the right as identity crisis grips Coalition
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  39. French and Australian experts on solving the world's sustainability challenge
  40. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull's pipe dreams channel ghost of Rex Connor
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  42. Australian politics explainer: the MV Tampa and the transformation of asylum-seeker policy
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  44. Why S-Town invites empathy not voyeurism
  45. Housing still out of reach for many even as rents fall in post-boom Western Australia
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