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Tropical Cyclone Debbie has blown a hole in the winter vegetable supply

  • Written by: Ian Sinclair, PhD Candidate. Contested Landscapes – Managing the Tensions between Land Use Planning in Strategic Agricultural Regions on Australia’s Eastern Seaboard., University of Sydney

Cyclone Debbie, which lashed the Queensland coast a week ago, has hit farmers hard in the area around Bowen – a crucial supplier of vegetables to Sydney, Melbourne and much of eastern Australia.

With the Queensland Farmers’ Federation estimating the damage at more than A$100 million and winter crop losses at 20%, the event looks set to...

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How one family used pokies and politics to extract a fortune from Tasmanians

  • Written by: Francis Markham, PhD Candidate, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
imageA new book tells a detailed story of how policy decisions about pokies are actually made.AAP/Mick Tsikas

James Boyce’s new book Losing Streak charts the story of how Federal Hotels gained an exclusive licence to operate all of Tasmania’s 3,500 poker machines for free. The company’s owners, the Farrell family, amassed a fortune of...

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How do we restore the public's faith in transport planning?

  • Written by: Crystal Legacy, Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow and Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
imagePoliticised projects that steamroll proper process are giving transport planning a bad name.www.shutterstock.com

This is the third article in our series Making Cities Work. It considers the problems of providing critical infrastructure and how we might produce the innovations and reforms needed to meet 21st-century needs and challenges.

Opposition...

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Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness

  • Written by: Stephen Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Technology Sydney
imageStatistics and probability can sometimes yield mind bending results.Shutterstock

Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to interpreting those patterns. In this series we look at some of the common mistakes we make and how to avoid them when thinking about...

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