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Yes, we can do on-the-spot drug testing quickly and safely

  • Written by: David Caldicott, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Australian National University

The Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton’s recent claim that it’s not practical to conduct on-the-spot drug tests “safely and quickly” is, at best, misinformed. These tests have been taking place successfully in Europe for more than a decade.

Ashton’s statement came in response to renewed calls for...

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How South Australia can function reliably while moving to 100% renewable power

  • Written by: Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UNSW
imagePeak energy demand sometimes occurs when there's no wind.Shutterstock

Despite the criticism levelled at South Australia over its renewable energy ambitions, the state is nevertheless aiming to be carbon neutral by mid-century), which will mean moving to 100% renewable electricity over the next 15-20 years.

The biggest challenge will be meeting the...

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Business students willing to sacrifice future salary for good corporate social responsibility: study

  • Written by: Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Associate Professor in Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
imageThe study found business students were concerned about their future employers' corporate social responsibility.Mays Business School/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

More than 90% of business students in a study on corporate social responsibility said they would be willing to sacrifice some percentage of their future salary to work for a responsible employer. A...

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City streets become a living lab that could transform your daily travel

  • Written by: Majid Sarvi, Chair in Transport Engineering and the Professor in Transport for Smart Cities, University of Melbourne
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Integrated transport has long been the holy grail of transport engineering. Now, a project set up north of Melbourne’s CBD aims to make it a reality.

Led by the School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, the project will create a living laboratory for developing a highly integrated, smart, multimodal transport system. The goals...

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  5. Trump, déjà un mois, et ce n’est que le début…
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  7. Netanyahu's visit prompts Australia to rethink its relationship with Israel
  8. No animal required, but would people eat artificial meat?
  9. Tax and dividend: how conservatives can grow to love carbon pricing
  10. What's most likely to kill you? Measuring how deadly our daily activities are
  11. Why algorithms won't necessarily lead to utopian workplaces
  12. Government losing the argument on energy, according to poll
  13. Trump and the cycle of dehumanisation
  14. How we kept disease-spreading Asian Tiger mozzies away from the Australian mainland
  15. Trainspotting on stage brings a disturbing reality vividly to life
  16. Mount Isa contamination 'within guidelines' but residents told to clean their homes
  17. There are some difficult questions to ask Netanyahu, but boycotting his visit won't answer them
  18. APRA fiddles on bank risk while Rome burns
  19. Which supplements work? New labels may help separate the wheat from the chaff
  20. Labor's climate policy could remove the need for renewable energy targets
  21. Bystanders often don't intervene in sexual harassment – but should they?
  22. PewDiePie, new media stars and the court of public opinion
  23. WestConnex audit offers another $17b lesson in how not to fund infrastructure
  24. Morrison's tanty over bankers hiring Anna Bligh was arrogant and absurd
  25. Australia's march towards corporatocracy
  26. The anatomy of an energy crisis – a pictorial guide, Part 2
  27. Explainer: trickle-down economics
  28. FactCheck Q A: was it four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago?
  29. Response from a spokesman for Jacqui Lambie for a FactCheck on climate change
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  32. Emotional fallout: Little Emperors brings China's one-child policy to the stage
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  34. Should Victoria introduce a swifter model of sentencing family violence offenders?
  35. Why small business tax cuts aren't likely to boost 'jobs and growth'
  36. Australia needs to reboot affordable housing funding, not scrap it
  37. New study shows more time walking means less time in hospital
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  39. Wary of human-animal hybrids? It's probably just your own moral superiority
  40. Guide to the classics: Alice Pung on Robin Klein's The Sky in Silver Lace
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  44. The Death of President Trump
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  46. Game therapy: serious video games can help children with cerebral palsy
  47. The Great Wall fails to bring down the barriers in a lacklustre Chinese-US epic
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High-Impact Dental Marketing Strategies That Are Driving Real Practice Growth Today

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Inside the Icon: The BridgeMuseum Officially Opens at the Sydney Harbour Bridge

A bold new way to experience one of Australia’s most recognisable landmarks has arrived, with BridgeClimb Sydney officially opening the all-new BridgeMuseum.  Located inside the Sydney Harbour Bridge...

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