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A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial

  • Written by: John Cook, Climate Communication Research Fellow, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
imageFossil fuel industry-funded organisations have played a big role in climate denial. Coal power image from www.shutterstock.com

The fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested interests in climate science denial is only half the picture.

Interest in this topic has spiked...

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Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?

  • Written by: Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Australia
imageKim Carr (left) and Christopher Pyne (right) debating on innovation at the National Press Club.ABC

Not everyone would watch Liberal minister for innovation, science and industry, Christopher Pyne, debating Labor’s innovation, science, industry, research and higher education minister Kim Carr at the National Press Club in preference to going...

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An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on

  • Written by: Alan Oxley, Chair, APEC Study Centre, expertise international trade law, economics, Asian regional development, RMIT University

Reality is always a victim in election campaigns. The case to save the Arrium steel business (and the Port Kembla plant) is still that this will protect jobs. The real purpose is to secure votes.

Labor announced last week it would provide a $100 million bailout for Arrium if elected. The Coalition in response has offered $49.2 million to help save...

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Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing

  • Written by: John Hewson, Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School, Australian National University

Scare campaigns can work in Australian politics. I should know as I have experienced a couple of real “doozies”.

Although conventional wisdom has it that I lost in 1993 because of the GST, which certainly was the focus of a very intense scare campaign, the major effect was from a scare campaign over my health policy, waged with...

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  2. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  3. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  4. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  5. Internships help students better manage their careers
  6. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  7. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  8. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  9. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  10. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  11. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  12. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  13. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  14. Response from Labor spokesperson
  15. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  16. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
  17. Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong
  18. Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck
  19. Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?
  20. Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
  21. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
  22. The off-topic Conversation #98
  23. Coalition leads in ReachTEL, but not in other polls
  24. Election explainer: how does the Senate count work?
  25. To Elle and Back: Reviewing the reviewers
  26. What sort of Reserve Bank governor will Philip Lowe be?
  27. Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy
  28. The growing cost of internships could add to inequality
  29. A fanfare of failures: why celebrate Florence Foster Jenkins and Eddie the Eagle?
  30. Science or snake oil: is Garcinia cambogia the magic weight-loss pill it's hyped up to be?
  31. Catholic church starts small but is clearly thinking big on fossil fuel divestment
  32. UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
  33. Shorten seeks to keep alive hope of a Labor win
  34. Bill Shorten's campaign pitch: don't risk Medicare under the Liberals
  35. On track for the Rio Olympics? IAAF ban means Russian athletes may not compete
  36. In the world's biggest city, the past offers lessons for surviving the future
  37. Shorten plays Facebook game, telling people to hit Like
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  39. A new normal, as Basslink finally resumes
  40. Cattle 'sledgehammering' in Vietnam raises yet more questions over live export
  41. From the Queen of Sheba to Jeffrey Smart: how art shaped Bruce Beresford
  42. The problem with reinforced concrete
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  45. Vital Signs: an election in Australia, a key poll in the UK, all lead to uncertainty
  46. Both parties to launch in western Sydney, the symbolic heartland of uncommitted but powerful voters
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