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Australia's energy debates need to move beyond political tribalism

  • Written by: Michael West, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
imageAAP/Mick Tsikas

As public angst over the prospective A$1 billion subsidy to coal magnate Guatam Adani hits fever pitch, a small company is modestly beavering away on another – more worthy – energy project in Far North Queensland.

Genex Power has turned the abandoned Kidston gold mine into a solar farm and pumped-hydro power storage...

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Curious kids: where does money come from?

  • Written by: Fabrizio Carmignani, Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
imageThe Conversation/Emil Jeyaratnam, CC BY-ND

This is the first piece in our new Curious Kids series. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! Email your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au

Where does money come from? – Millie,...

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How English-style drizzle killed the Ice Age's giants

  • Written by: Alan Cooper, Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide
imageGiant sloths: killed by rainy weather?Kamraman/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Wet weather at the end of the last ice age appears to have helped drive the ecosystems of large grazing animals, such as mammoths and giant sloths, extinct across vast swathes of Eurasia and the Americas, according to our new research.

The study, published in Nature Ecology...

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Mandatory minimum sentences and populist criminal justice policy do not work – here's why

  • Written by: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
imageSuccessive reviews and inquiries have revealed that mandatory sentences fail to achieve their stated aims.Shutterstock

The Victorian Liberal Party recently announced that, if elected in November 2018, it would introduce mandatory minimum sentences for repeat violent offenders as part of its crackdown on crime.

Heralded as a “two-strike”...

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