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Election 2016: do we need to re-establish a department of climate change?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

With a federal election looming, Australia’s top mandarins will once again be turning their minds to the incoming government briefs, the so-called blue book if the Coalition is returned and the red book if Labor is elected.

High on the agenda will be the organisation of the bureaucracy and it won’t get any trickier than climate change.

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Hide your location on Twitter? We can still find you and that's not a bad thing in an emergency

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
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Of the millions of Twitter users, there are about 98% who want to hide their location. So they switch off the function that publicly displays the location of any tweet.

There could be many reasons why people don’t want their location to be broadcast to the world, but privacy is usually the main driver.

But what they...

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