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If Australia is going to have a plebiscite on marriage equality, how should it work?

  • Written by Ryan Goss, Senior Lecturer in Law, Australian National University
imageThe plebiscite on whether Australia should legalise same-sex marriage is constitutionally unnecessary.AAP/Alan Porritt

In August 2015, the Abbott government committed the Coalition to a plebiscite on whether Australia should enact marriage equality.

Since the election, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis have promised...

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The electricity market's not doing a great job – here's how to improve it

  • Written by Alex Fattal, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
imageHow can we get Australian electricity heading down the right road?CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

The past three weeks have seen considerable discussion of Australia’s wholesale electricity market, driven largely by severe price spikes in South Australia. Hugh Saddler, writing last week on The Conversation, and the Climate Council, in a report...

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High speed rail plan still needs to prove economic benefits will outweigh costs

  • Written by Geoffrey Clifton, Lecturer in Transport and Logistics Management, University of Sydney

The CLARA private consortium claims a high speed rail network between Sydney and Melbourne could be paid for at no cost to the government through a technique known as value capture. What is still not clear is whether there will be enough value created by the project to capture in order to pay for the project.

Value capture is well established...

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Census 2016: should you be concerned about your privacy?

  • Written by Liz Allen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
imageThe ABS has safeguards to protect privacy and secure data collected in the census.AAP/Alan Porritt

Names and addresses collected as part of the 2016 Census, to be conducted on August 9, will be retained to enable the census to be linked to other national data. Names and addresses had previously been retained for 18 months, but the information is...

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  1. China will be the winner if US backs out of the TPP
  2. Big retailers are realising the risk of moving into convenience stores
  3. Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
  4. Explainer: what is behavioural activation for depression?
  5. Mapping the brain: scientists define 180 distinct regions, but what now?
  6. Reimagining NSW: how good governance strengthens democracy
  7. Can we predict who will turn to crime?
  8. Nostalgia, VHS and Stranger Things' homage to 80s horror
  9. Sports coaches need to be educated about concussion to keep players safe on the field
  10. Russian doping scandal: should other countries pull out of the Olympics?
  11. WA Senate result: 5 Liberals, 4 Labor, 2 Greens, 1 One Nation
  12. The return of the breeze block
  13. The off-topic Conversation #104
  14. Windows 10 one year on: it's evolving but privacy still a concern
  15. Lichens may be a symbiosis of three organisms; a new Order of fungus named
  16. Janis Joplin and Sharon Jones add a feminist beat to the Melbourne Film Festival
  17. Juvenile detention royal commissioners must reach out to rebuild public trust
  18. Health Check: should we be using alcohol-based hand sanitisers?
  19. Gooda and White announced as heads of royal commission into NT youth detention
  20. Reimagining NSW: four ways to boost community well-being and why it matters
  21. Indonesia's new cabinet built on political transactions
  22. A complacent, secretive IMF failed to deal with EU crisis; what's changed?
  23. Commuters help regions tap into city-driven growth
  24. The casual stigmatisation of opioid use is lazy journalism
  25. Reimagining NSW: how the care economy could help unclog our cities
  26. Australia can learn from the limitations of New Zealand's welfare reforms
  27. Why it's so hard to 'eat local' when it comes to fish
  28. Childhood cancer deaths have fallen in Australia, but some types remain more of a challenge
  29. Please rewind: a final farewell to the VCR
  30. Should we be locking people up in prisons at all?
  31. Why arts schools matter, not just for art's sake but for urban renewal in Sydney and other cities
  32. Labor's Herbert win means Turnbull has a majority of only one
  33. Capitalism and Democracy [part 2]
  34. Why multicultural policy looms as a Senate bargaining chip
  35. Rudd correspondence to Turnbull: you said you supported me many times
  36. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on the campaign for same-sex marriage
  37. Looking for a nursing home place for your parent with dementia? Here's what to consider
  38. Turnbull ban on Rudd's UN bid gives Liberal conservatives a win over Bishop
  39. Consumers lose out to Australia's protectionist anti-dumping laws
  40. The tragi-comedy Down Under appropriates Cronulla rather than offering insight
  41. As Indonesia conducts more executions, Australia's anti-death-penalty advocacy is still lacking
  42. Kevin gets canned
  43. How fiction helps us understand the reality of a mother abandoning her newborn baby
  44. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Don Dale royal commission
  45. After Philadephia, logic and numbers back Clinton for the win – but it's not that simple
  46. Turnbull kills Rudd's UN secretary-general bid
  47. No Kevin '17: Turnbull opts not to back Rudd for the UN's top job
  48. Being transgender is not a mental illness, and the WHO should acknowledge this
  49. The NT royal commission: it's a good start but more leadership is needed
  50. Report on industry assistance needs to go beyond just reporting costs

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