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As its economy changes, China is starting to export its real estate ideas too

  • Written by: Yixiao Zhou, Lecturer in Economics, Curtin University
imageChinese cranes might soon be a common sight through Asia.Shutterstock

When it comes to discussions about Chinese real estate investors, we tend to focus on the idea that they are buying up property in places like Australia, pushing up prices – even if that is somewhat questionable. But it also ignores the other side of the equation. The...

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Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on working the new parliament

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

As the curtain falls on the year, one of the most powerful players in the new parliament looks back on his successes. Nick Xenophon nominates whistleblower protections and procurement law changes negotiated alongside the government’s industrial legislation as major achievements.

“The government has agreed to sweeping changes to...

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Why give the Green Army its marching orders?

  • Written by: Stewart Lockie, Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University

It’s a rare week when natural resource management policy penetrates the national news cycle not once, but twice.

Nonetheless, last Thursday the federal government struck a deal with the Greens to increase funding to Landcare programs by A$100 million in exchange for their support on other matters. No one quite seems to know yet how this money...

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Tiny desert mice could help save Australia's grasslands from invasion

  • Written by: Christopher Edward Gordon, Associate Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
imageThe unassuming dusky hopping mouse.Ben Moore

You should stop skylarking about with those bloody desert mice and try and stop those woody weeds. I could see clear through that paddock in the ‘60s. Now look at it. That scrub costs us tens of thousands of dollars in lost fodder and it’s almost impossible to muster the livestock.

That blunt...

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  1. Australia is very average when it comes to maths and science performance – here's what needs to change
  2. Government calls for co-operation after hit with negative growth figure
  3. Why the next editor-in-chief at The Age should be a woman
  4. Why are the best shut out? The sorry saga of performing arts funding in Australia
  5. Keeping one step ahead of pollen triggers for thunderstorm asthma
  6. Where are the women scientists, tech gurus and engineers in our films?
  7. Periodontitis: why we need a vaccine for gum disease
  8. Coalition regains ground in Newspoll
  9. Hold pornography to account – not education programs – for children's harmful sexual behaviour
  10. These are the characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work
  11. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 5
  12. The off-topic Conversation #113
  13. Australia's students are failing. I blame the politicians
  14. Turnbull government rules out an emissions intensity scheme
  15. Pavlov's plants: new study shows plants can learn from experience
  16. FactCheck: Is Australia’s use of antibiotics in general practice 20% above the OECD average?
  17. Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband
  18. Laughs, cries and deception: birds' emotional lives are just as complicated as ours
  19. It will take years to know whether New South Wales' shark nets are working
  20. Twitter influences investor behaviour whether companies intend it to or not: new research
  21. Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity
  22. We don't need greater access to Nembutal to achieve good end-of-life care
  23. Australia’s human rights debate has always been political
  24. PISA results don’t look good, but before we panic let’s look at what we can learn from the latest test
  25. Five ways to spend with more social purpose this Christmas
  26. Hanson thinks Culleton has swollen head
  27. Wings of desire, demise and adaptation: birds in Australian art
  28. First the word, then the deed: how an 'ethnocracy' like Australia works
  29. Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs
  30. What’s next for Italy?
  31. Does medical research funding need a paradigm shift?
  32. When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements
  33. Drugs for delirium don't work, and may in fact harm
  34. Why OPEC's squeeze on oil prices is getting weaker all the time
  35. Great Barrier Reef needs far more help than Australia claims in its latest report to UNESCO
  36. Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill
  37. 'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like
  38. The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians
  39. Listen up: running sounds contain clues for injury prevention
  40. Australia's political elites are fiddling while Rome burns
  41. Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
  42. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 4
  43. The 'no' vote in Italy's referendum triggers economic and political uncertainty
  44. Tipping the scales on Christmas Island: wasps and bugs use other species, so why can’t we?
  45. Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
  46. Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'
  47. Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
  48. Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army
  49. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  50. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?

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