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Five reasons the Turnbull government shouldn't let us spend super on a home

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imageSuperannuation savings are the target of an idea that refuses to go away.Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

Allowing first homebuyers to cash out their super to buy a home is a seductive idea with a long history. Like the nine-headed Hydra, which replaced each severed head with two more, each time the idea is cut down it seems to return even...

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The tropical steam-engine: how does El Niño warm the entire globe?

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imageEl Nino brings drought to Indonesia, and warmer weather to almost the entire globe.Reuters/Romeo Ranoco

We regularly hear about how El Niño events raise the temperature across much of the planet, contributing to spikes in global average temperature such as the one witnessed in 1998, with severe bush fires, droughts and floods.

Indeed, the...

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As China launches a national emissions trading scheme, Australian states threaten to go back to the future

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imageThe dawn of a reborn emissions trading scheme led by South Australia is not as unfeasible as Premier Jay Weatherill suggests.Adam Trevorrow/Wikimedia Commons

China has added itself to the list of countries prepared to price carbon. Of course, Australia knows more about putting a national price on carbon than almost any other country. And it also...

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Is Kevin Rudd the very model of a modern UN secretary-general?

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imageKevin Rudd is reportedly campaigning to take over as UN secretary-general when Ban Ki-moon's term expires in 2016.EPA/Peter Foley

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s second term expires at the end of 2016. Candidates are already lining up to compete for the position, including – reportedly – Australia’s former...

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