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City sparrows came to Australia via India

  • Written by Simon Griffith, Professor of Avian Behavioural Ecology, Macquarie University
imageSparrows are one of the five most common birds in Australian cities. Sparrow image from www.shutterstock.com

In Australia, like so many other countries, the house sparrow is one of the five most commonly seen birds in backyards and gardens. This is a result of intentional introductions over the past two centuries.

The story of how house sparrows...

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Is small business really the engine room of Australia's economy?

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia
imageSmall business create jobs - but not at the rate that large business does.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

It seems that in Australian politics - and this campaign in particular - everyone loves a small business.

Just before this year’s federal budget, Treasurer Scott Morrison said of small businesses: “they are the hope of the...

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What are the implications of privatising land title offices?

  • Written by Mohsen Kalantari, Senior Lecturer in Geomatics, University of Melbourne
imageAustralians do business with a title office only a couple of times in their lives – when they buy and sell their homes, for instances.AAP/Paul Miller

The New South Wales government is set to privatise its land-titling services. This decision may provide the impetus for other states and territories in Australia to go down the same path.

But...

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Speaking with: Deb Warr on poverty porn

  • Written by Dallas Rogers, Lecturer in Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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In May 2015 the mayor of the City of Blacktown, Stephen Bali, denounced the SBS documentary series Struggle Street – produced in the Blacktown suburb of Mount Druitt – labelling it as “public funded poverty porn” and staging a creative protest which saw a dozen garbage trucks blockade the broadcaster’s head...

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  1. New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
  2. Does tourism really suffer at sites listed as World Heritage In Danger?
  3. Coal and industrial relations: how miners secured workers' rights
  4. How Australians Die: cause #5 – diabetes
  5. Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
  6. From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo
  7. Law reports push piecemeal changes to native title, but still fall short
  8. The ACTU is a key Labor supporter but how much power does it actually have?
  9. Why the voice of Big Business is facing its biggest test
  10. Vital Signs: central bankers longing for growth that may not come
  11. Friday essay: punk's legacy, 40 years on
  12. Driverless cars need to hit the road come rain, wind or shine
  13. Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
  14. Confusion about Senate rules could produce winners with small votes: Australia Institute
  15. Labor to release savings package
  16. Election podcast: Nick Xenophon on his play for Senate power
  17. Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Nick Xenophon
  18. Vote 1 'Other': what's driving more voters to back a minor party this election
  19. The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate
  20. Seven's Olympic coverage could change the way we watch sport on our screens
  21. Can The Avalanches flourish in a pop music world remade in their own image?
  22. The Hobbit took our breath away: now it's the new normal
  23. Why we need to pay more attention to negative clinical trials
  24. Election FactCheck: has $100 billion been added to Australia's national debt under the current government?
  25. Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women
  26. Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
  27. Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
  28. Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned
  29. Speed networking: how to win Euro 2016
  30. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  31. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  32. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  33. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  34. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  35. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  36. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  37. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
  38. Shedding the 'victim narrative' for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride
  39. A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
  40. How the Hobbits kept their tools as they shrank into island life
  41. Google's other bets' losing streak: Nest and Verily's problematic Silicon Valley CEOs
  42. China and the US: when worlds collide
  43. Clinton clinches Democratic nomination after big wins in New Jersey and California
  44. How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
  45. New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians
  46. Weekly Dose: methotrexate, the anti-inflammatory drug that can kill if taken daily
  47. Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?
  48. Democracy goes missing in action as politicians obfuscate, avoid and patronise
  49. Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet
  50. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in Australian living standards since records began?

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