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Vital Signs: regulators fiddle while house prices sizzle

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: new information points to a major house prices problem for regulators and governments.


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The stampede of wind farm complaints that never happened

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageWhy were so few complaints about wind farms investigated further? And who made these complaints anyway?from www.shutterstock.com

National Wind Farm Commissioner, Andrew Dyer, has just released his much anticipated first annual report.

In its first year of operation until the end of 2016, the National Wind Farm Commissioner says his office received:

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Why anyone can steal our articles. Yes, really.

  • Written by: Debbie Dickinson, Head of audience engagement, The Conversation

We believe quality information should be accessible to all and that’s why we publish under a Creative Commons license, which allows anyone, anywhere to republish our articles.

This short video explains why we publish under Creative Commons, and how our republishing works.

Please feel free to share, and let us know your thoughts in the...

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Northern NSW is no stranger to floods, but this one was different

  • Written by: Joelle Gergis, ARC DECRA Climate Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

The devastating flood damage wreaked by Tropical Cyclone Debbie has left many residents in northern New South Wales facing an enormous cleanup that could take months.

Any Lismore local will tell you that flooding is a fact of life in the Northern Rivers. In the floods of 1954 and 1974, the Wilsons River rose to a record 12.17 metres. This time...

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