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What economics has to say about housing bubbles

  • Written by: Timo Henckel, Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
imageRapid rise of Australian house prices have created disagreement between economists on whether a housing bubble currently exists. Brian Birdwell/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The b-word is doing the rounds, barely a decade after the United States house price bubble burst spectacularly, setting in motion a global financial crisis. As Australian real estate...

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What's critical about critical infrastructure?

  • Written by: Wendy Steele, Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, RMIT University
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This is the first 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.

Our cities and regions depend on the critical nodes and arteries that together comprise urban infrastructure systems. This...

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The periodic table: from its classic design to use in popular culture

  • Written by: Mark Blaskovich, Senior Research Officer, The University of Queensland
imageThe periodic table of the elements on a T-shirt.Damon Hart Davis

The periodic table is one of those classic images that you find in many science labs and classrooms. It’s an image almost everyone has seen at some time in their life.

You can also find the periodic table on t-shirts, mugs, beach towels, pillowcases and duvet covers, and plenty...

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Should university funding be tied to student performance?

  • Written by: Andrew Harvey, Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
imageHow do we measure success?from www.shutterstock.com

Government funding for Australian universities could soon be based more on how students perform - including academic results, whether they complete uni and get a job – and less on the number of students universities manage to enrol.

So why is this change likely?

There are concerns that while...

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  4. Andrew Jaspan resigns as Editor and Executive Director of The Conversation
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  7. Follicle challenge: the Ben Cousins saga and reforms to drug testing
  8. Company tax compromise is limited but works for both Turnbull and Xenophon
  9. The Vice President Dines: A Philosophical Dialogue
  10. The APRA bandaid for the housing market is wearing off
  11. Electoral system flaws deny Labor and Greens WA upper house majority
  12. Carrots and pumpkin might reduce your risk of cancer, but beware taking them in pill form
  13. Does bad weather affect student performance in school?
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  15. The search to extend lifespan is gaining ground, but can we truly reverse the biology of ageing?
  16. More low-paid work is part of the problem, not the solution
  17. The forgotten 660,000 locked out of home ownership
  18. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the company tax cut
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  20. If you destroy it, they will come – climate change displacement and the Trump effect
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  25. Turning Hazelwood's empty coal mine into a lake could help heal mining towns
  26. Vital Signs: war gaming the economic fallout from Brexit
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