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Ghost ships: why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?

  • Written by: Natali Pearson, PhD Candidate, Museum and Heritage Studies, University of Sydney
imageThe HMAS Perth was sunk on March 1 1942. Shinatria Adhityatama / Pusat Arkaeologi Nasional (Arkenas)

Seventy five years ago this month, Australia, the UK, US and the Netherlands suffered a series of disastrous naval defeats against Japan in the narrow straits and seas around Indonesia. The warship wrecks in the Java Sea and the Sunda Strait are...

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Trade data shows Australia can get more out of a deal with the EU than the UK

  • Written by: David Treisman, Lecturer in Economics, Bachelor of International Business, Monash Business School, Monash University

Australia should prioritise a free-trade agreement with the European Union to capitalise on historically optimal relations, rather than with the United Kingdom, immediately after a hard Brexit. A hard Brexit would see a sudden exit of the UK from the EU and now seems more likely given UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s line on this.

As part of...

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Business investment is weak, but an unfunded company tax cut won't fix it

  • Written by: Jim Minifie, Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute

Eight years after the global financial crisis (GFC), economic growth remains weak in many rich nations. Australia has been an exception to the malaise, but growth has slowed as the mining boom winds down.

Business investment is vital to economic growth and to lifting living standards, but a new Grattan report explores why Australian business...

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Merging our brains with machines won't stop the rise of the robots

  • Written by: Michael Milford, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageMerging our intelligence with that of machines has a strong appeal for some.Shutterstock

Tesla chief executive and OpenAI founder Elon Musk suggested last week that humanity might stave off irrelevance from the rise of the machines by merging with the machines and becoming cyborgs.

However, current trends in software-only artificial intelligence...

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  2. The typical university student is no longer 18, middle-class and on campus – we need to change thinking on 'drop-outs'
  3. Why we need an 'energy Landcare' to tackle rising power prices
  4. Coalition trails 45-55% and Turnbull's ratings sink in Newspoll
  5. Working for the (Australia Post) man
  6. Turnbull turns shock-and-awe on Abbott
  7. Explainer: What is VX nerve agent and how does it work?
  8. Where were all the women in the Stone Age?
  9. Booksellers, the alt-right and Milo Yiannopoulos
  10. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan and Deep Saini on penalty rate cuts
  11. Hairdressers in rural Australia end up being counsellors too
  12. Voters' dislike of politics makes fixed four-year parliamentary terms look appealing
  13. Perth's Museum of Water documents our intimate relationship with a precious resource
  14. Here's what smart cities do to stay ahead
  15. Netanyahu's visit in perspective: Australia has more important relationships than Israel
  16. Here's what must be done to detect, disrupt and deter phoenix activity in Australia
  17. Fourteen penalties: Sydney’s A-League derby off the pitch
  18. Why researchers have a duty to try and influence policy
  19. Our power grid is crying out for capacity, but should we open the gas valves?
  20. Vital Signs: there's never been a tougher time to be a central banker
  21. The search for extraterrestrial life in the water worlds close to home
  22. Friday essay: the revolutionary vision of Jane Austen
  23. Do you know what's in the herbal medicine you're taking?
  24. Our big cities are engines of inequality, so how do we fix that?
  25. Tony Abbott says government's challenge is 'to be worth voting for'
  26. Grattan on Friday: Penalty rates – Shorten's own goal becomes Turnbull's political problem
  27. Politics podcast: Hugh Saddler on Australia's energy crisis
  28. Cutting Sunday penalty rates will hurt young people the most
  29. How do we keep gardening in the face of a changing climate?
  30. YouTube star PewDiePie rails against 'the media', but he's a part of it too now
  31. Sunday penalty rates cut opens new fight between government and opposition
  32. Explainer: how Australia decides who is a genuine refugee
  33. 'I can live with either one': Palestine, Israel and the two-state solution
  34. In the rooms of power and ordinary people, Bligh's banking appointment is a masterstroke
  35. Some brain training programs are backed by evidence. Here's how to pick them
  36. WA's decision to allow internet voting in state election is a very positive step
  37. A critical guide to the Oscar Best Pic contenders – and why Moonlight should win
  38. Gambling lobby gives big to political parties, and names names
  39. Why there's no legal barrier to a Melbourne drug injecting room, despite political setbacks
  40. Too hot to learn – why Australian schools need a national policy on coping with heatwaves
  41. Push for longer hours makes headlines, but more Australians want to work less
  42. Seven Earth-sized planets discovered orbiting a nearby star
  43. Australia’s 2016 environment scorecard: rains return but in some cases too late
  44. Shorten goes on front foot over renewables 50% 'target'
  45. Fact or fiction – is sugar addictive?
  46. New physics syllabus raises the bar, but how will schools clear it?
  47. No mandatory novels or poetry – what you need to know about the new HSC English curriculum
  48. Dutton blows Turnbull's credibility – for now and perhaps for later
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