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What social insects can teach us about resilient infrastructure

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageSocial insects such as bees live in a common nest site.EPA/Peter Komka

Accidents, natural disasters and random or targeted attacks can cripple human infrastructure. Our transportation networks, supply chains and communication networks are increasing in size and becoming more complex as our populations grow.

How do we protect those networks from becom...

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Good political slogans and this year's, meh, yawn, failings

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageAAP/Mick Tsikas

Co-written with Kate Burridge

One of this piece’s authors (Howard Manns), a migrant, obviously struggles with English and literacy issues. He thanks his lucky stars that pollies speak to him in simple, three-word slogans. But what makes for a good slogan?

Good political slogans have a slathering of ideology, a dash of...

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Murray Goulburn saga has roots in deregulation

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
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The history of the dairy cooperative Murray Goulburn and its farmer suppliers shows how a close relationship of trust has developed and been broken with the collapse of the farmgate milk price. Roots of the current crisis can be traced all the way back to the deregulation of the dairy industry at the start of the century.

Murray Goulburn was...

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  1. Election explainer: why are there 150 lower house MPs and 76 senators?
  2. Business Briefing: manipulating the BBSW
  3. Is your artwork genuine and who can you trust to advise you?
  4. Child-free: why women who choose not to have kids are given such a hard time
  5. Australia's volcanic history is a lot more recent than you think
  6. Morrison and Cormann caught out on black hole but money still risky ground for Shorten
  7. Television agreement a WIN for Network Ten
  8. Ground the banks until they learn to behave?
  9. Here's looking at: Cindy Sherman 'Head Shots'
  10. We must do more to help people with intellectual impairments stay out of prison
  11. The Man Who Knew Infinity: inspiration, rigour and the art of mathematics
  12. Nova Peris quits parliament after single term
  13. Walking challenges aren't doing you much good if you're swapping running for walking
  14. '30-minute city'? Not in my backyard! Smart Cities Plan must let people have their say
  15. Microfinance could wind up being the new subprime
  16. Huge solar storms may be key to life on Earth
  17. How diversity and change has made the Australian family stronger than ever
  18. How we live now: Australian families at a glance
  19. Fighting income inequality: the role business can play
  20. 'Mummy, where does steak come from?' How Australian families talk about meat
  21. Will Zika virus cast a shadow over the Rio Olympics?
  22. How our modular brain pieces the world together
  23. What is the Coalition’s real agenda for Australian schools?
  24. A guide to using drones to study wildlife: first, do no harm
  25. The Liberals may have miscalculated Turnbull's electoral appeal
  26. Slight movement to Labor as Shorten's ratings improve
  27. Frozen out: why the GP rebate freeze should matter to you.
  28. Health Check: how much sugar is it OK to eat?
  29. Explainer: what is the Office for Learning and Teaching – and why does it matter?
  30. Election 2016: do we need to re-establish a department of climate change?
  31. Politicians trashing immigrants and refugees are the real danger to social cohesion
  32. Myer and eBay's virtual reality shopping turns looking into seeing
  33. Hide your location on Twitter? We can still find you and that's not a bad thing in an emergency
  34. Why has climate change disappeared from the Australian election radar?
  35. Coastal law shift from property rights to climate adaptation is a landmark reform
  36. Angry Birds at the cinema: the uses and abuses of mobile phones
  37. Election podcast: Sam Dastyari on the 'Bill Bus'
  38. Architecture is a performed art – and the Eames House is a pretty good show
  39. Move over suburbia, Green Square offers new norm for urban living
  40. The off-topic Conversation #94
  41. Newspoll shows Labor ahead, Shorten and Turnbull level pegging in net satisfaction
  42. Guide to the classics: The Histories, by Herodotus
  43. We need to better detect depression but that shouldn't mean more medication
  44. Delay in getting driving licences opens door to more sustainable travel
  45. Eat locals: swapping sheep and cows for kangaroos and camels could help our environment
  46. The science issues this election are as old as the Australian media
  47. Murray Goulburn and Fonterra are playing chicken with dairy farmers
  48. Australia needs a better independent fiscal agency
  49. Performance pay for teachers will create a culture of fear and isolation
  50. Negatively Geared – Against Younger Australians
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