Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.
This week: The IMF warns of secular stagnation while Moody’s ponders a credit downgrade for Australia if...
Dream of working at the UN one day? There are some strategies you can employ to maximise your chances.Reuters/Brendan McDermidGareth Evans is chancellor of the Australian National University. He was a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, and from 1988-96 he was Australia’s foreign minister. From 2000 to 2009 he was...
The tiny rotifer has thrived for millions of years without sex.Flickr/Specious Reasons, CC BY-NCSexual reproduction is thought to be essential for mixing up genes and holding your own in the race for survival. A major embarrassment to this theory are microscopic animals called rotifers, one class of which has reproduced without sex for millions of...
Modelling done for the Climate Institute indicates that without big policy changes Australia’s path to zero emissions from the electricity sector by 2050 would mean huge disruption after 2030.
The report, “A Switch in Time: Enabling the electricity sector’s transition to net zero emissions”, warns that a weak policy now...
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