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2016 crowned hottest year on record: Australia needs to get heat smart

  • Written by: Liz Hanna, Honorary Senior Fellow, Australian National University
imageSydneysiders cool off in heatwave conditions gripping eastern Australia in January 2017. AAP Image/Joel Carrett

It’s official, 2016 set another record for being the world’s hottest. Three international agencies have confirmed today that last year was the hottest on record.

NASA reported that 2016 was 0.99℃ hotter than the...

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Australian science making some progress amid the march of ministers

  • Written by: John Rice, Adjunct Professor, University of Adelaide
imageThe new Science Minister, Senator Arthur Sinodinos.AAP Image/Dean Lewins

The appointment of Senator Arthur Sinodinos as the new Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science means there have now been four ministers responsible for science in Australia in the little more than three years since the Coalition won government in 2013.

Five, if you were...

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Is 2017 the year to ditch the term 'innovation'?

  • Written by: Jesse Adams Stein, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building, University of Technology Sydney
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With the appointment of Arthur Sinodinos as minister for industry, innovation and science in the cabinet reshuffle, Australia can look forward to more government promotion of innovation and entrepreneurialism.

Yesterday Sinodinos released a statement about his appointment, reaffirming his “keen appreciation of the importance of science and...

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Clemency for Chelsea Manning – but will Assange or Snowden also find the US merciful?

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
imageThe timing of Chelsea Manning’s commutation further undermines any chance of similar approaches to the situations of Julian Assange or Edward Snowden.Reuters/Pierre Albouy

US President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning. A former army intelligence operative, Manning was sentenced by court martial in 2013 to 35...

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  3. Printing more money isn't the answer to all economic ills
  4. Australia needs stricter rules to curb air pollution, but there's a lot we could all do now
  5. If we scrapped the states, increasing Canberra's clout would be a backward step
  6. Explainer: Why the human voice is so versatile
  7. The search for MH370 is over: what we learnt and where to now
  8. Stinking dead fish portend major problem with carp herpes release
  9. University completion rates won't be improved by looking at isolated causes
  10. Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement
  11. Do 8 men really control the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population?
  12. What's in store for new health minister Greg Hunt?
  13. How professional sport handicaps youth sporting culture
  14. What next for the ASX and Blockchain in 2017?
  15. FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices?
  16. Xi Jinping may be preaching trade, but China's opening up has slowed
  17. When gentrification lacks empathy: a case study
  18. A genuinely believable CGI actor? It won't be long
  19. Ways to spend spare time online
  20. Unpaid work experience is widespread but some are missing out: new study
  21. Murky waters: why is Japan still whaling in the Southern Ocean?
  22. Turnbull makes a good start on expenses, but needs to go further
  23. Taking a VR trip in Shaun Gladwell's floating planetoid skull
  24. What’s the point of sex? It frames gender expression and identity – or does it?
  25. Why learn spelling or maths if there's an app for that?
  26. Brexit, Trump and the TPP mean Australia should pursue more bilateral trade agreements
  27. Australia needs to make sport a more equal playing field: here's why
  28. When politicians become pundits
  29. When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing
  30. The trouble with 'microaggressions'
  31. Let's kill the Australian identity card zombie once and for all
  32. Sit on hands or take a stand: why athletes have always been political players
  33. Elevated lead levels in Sydney backyards: here's what you can do
  34. When care becomes control - financial abuse cuts across cultures
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  36. Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?
  37. Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?
  38. A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy
  39. What we can all learn from the VW emissions saga
  40. Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city
  41. ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks
  42. How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms
  43. Health Check: is snoring anything to worry about?
  44. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
  45. Heed Hawke's call – Australian federalism is an idea whose time has ended
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Cost Savings and Benefits of Using Used Pallets in Logistics

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How Fulfilment Services in Australia Help Businesses Scale Efficiently

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