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PolicyCheck: Labor's phased emissions trading scheme

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Welcome to PolicyCheck, a new form of political coverage that aims to make better sense of policies launched by the major parties in the lead up to the 2016 election. Here, The Conversation’s academic experts look at the history of policies, whether they have been tried in Australia before, and how likely they are to succeed.


Labor has...

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Raising Tibet

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

It’s more than a little disconcerting to wake every hour or so, gasping for air, suffocating.

It happened to me during a field season in southern Tibet camped at about 5400 metres above sea level. With my normal sleep breathing patterns, I just couldn’t get enough oxygen.

We were working in an area known as the Kampa dome, some 50...

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Explainer: how do drugs work?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageEver wondered how the small, white ibuprofen pill turns off your headache?from shutterstock.com

Whether a drug is prescribed by the doctor, bought over the counter or obtained illegally, we mostly take their mechanism of action for granted and trust they will do what they’re supposed to.

But how does the ibuprofen pill turn off your headache?...

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  4. How has Japan reacted to its failed bid to build Australia's new submarines?
  5. Great Barrier Reef bleaching would be almost impossible without climate change
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  7. Grattan on Friday: The Manus issue intrudes on carefully crafted pre-election scripts
  8. Sorting the gems from the dung in the royal commission on union corruption
  9. Michelle Grattan: a brief history of Australian budgets
  10. Vital Signs: deflation Down Under?
  11. Disease evolution: how new illnesses emerge when we change how we live
  12. Friday essay: the ugly history of cosmetic surgery
  13. Kitchen Science: gastrophysics brings the universe into your kitchen
  14. How Captain America: Civil War echoes our political anxieties
  15. Public service begins long journey back to leading on gender equality
  16. More money doesn't guarantee success in cyber security race
  17. Why does Australia need submarines at all?
  18. New homelessness report shows the cost of waiting for early intervention
  19. Will Budget 2016 deliver a new deal for Australian cities?
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  21. Patchy laws leave corporate whistleblowers vulnerable
  22. How high-speed wireless compares to cable in boosting our internet speeds
  23. Beyoncé's Lemonade: tell all or fizzy, soap-operatic art object?
  24. Big ticket infrastructure projects may woo voters, but it's value-for-money that matters
  25. If not Manus, then what? Possible alternatives for asylum seekers and refugees in PNG
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  27. State by state, it's still Malcolm Turnbull's election to lose
  28. Budget explainer: does Australia really have an infrastructure deficit?
  29. Services, infrastructure winners in big-spending Victorian budget
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  31. Forgetting Martin Bryant: what to remember when we talk about Port Arthur
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  36. Shades of Abbott as Turnbull government attacks on climate, digs in on asylum seekers
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  40. Supplements including fish oil and vitamin D can boost effects of antidepressant medications
  41. Labor's climate policy: back in the game but missing detail
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