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How to cut Australia's $48 billion crime bill

  • Written by: Rick Sarre, Professor of Law, University of South Australia
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Crime costs Australia almost A$48 billion per year. In anyone’s language, that is a public cost that needs to be addressed urgently. Fortunately, we now have an abundance of research findings that tell us how we can do that.

It is disappointing that there has not been any decrease in...

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The off-topic Conversation #118

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

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Why the free market hasn't slashed power prices (and what to do about it)

  • Written by: Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute

The energy sector was supposed to be the showcase for privatisation and market deregulation. Yet in 2017, this premise is being sorely tested – no more so than in electricity retailing, where competition has failed to deliver on its promise of lower prices for customers.

The latest Grattan Institute report, Price shock: Is the retail...

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Extreme weather likely behind worst recorded mangrove dieback in northern Australia

  • Written by: Penny van Oosterzee, Principal Research Adjunct James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University

One of the worst instances of mangrove forest dieback ever recorded globally struck Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria in the summer of 2015-16. A combination of extreme temperatures, drought and lowered sea levels likely caused this dieback, according to our investigation published in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research.

The dieback,...

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