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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
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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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