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Simone Biles' athleticism and advocacy have changed gymnastics forever

  • Written by: Ella Donald, Tutor in Communications and Arts, The University of Queensland

At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, gymnastics got what it was looking for: an image.

Romania’s Nadia Comăneci was a tiny 14-year-old, leaping on the floor with a pixie-like grace, moving between the bars with lightning fast precision. On her first bar routine, she received a perfect ten: the first ever ten in Olympic Gymnastics.

She would...

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Global bank urges cities to invest in new infrastructure to adapt to climate change

  • Written by: Elisa Palazzo, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW
Global bank urges cities to invest in new infrastructure to adapt to climate changeOur cities need to adapt to cope with more extreme weather events and other impacts from climate change.Flickr/Shaun Johnston, CC BY-NC-ND

The impacts of climate change on weather, sea levels, food and water supplies should be seen as an investment opportunity for our cities, says global investment banking firm Goldman Sachs.

In a report out last...

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yes, house prices will rise with lower interest rates, but that's not the only effect

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

With the Reserve Bank of Australia cutting official rates to 0.75% on Tuesday, has been a wave of commentary about the move doing little to help the economy apart from boosting housing prices.

Read more: 0.75% is a record low, but don't think for a second the Reserve Bank has finished cutting the cash rate

There are two parts to...

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Scott Morrison warns against 'negative globalism'

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has foreshadowed his government will have Australia play a more active role in seeking to set global standards.

Delivering the Lowy Lecture on Thursday night, Morrison said Australia “cannot afford to leave it to others to set the standards that will shape our global economy”.

He has asked the foreign...

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  1. Jackie Lambie should not horse trade on medevac repeal bill
  2. Yes, we still need to cut down on red and processed meat
  3. ACT's new animal sentience law recognises an animal's psychological pain and pleasure, and may lead to better protections
  4. Australia's biggest property companies are making net-zero emissions pledges – now we can track them
  5. The vegans are coming! What's fuelling the interest in plant-based eating?
  6. Space can solve our looming resource crisis – but the space industry itself must be sustainable
  7. Scarcity drives water prices, not government water recovery: new research
  8. If warming exceeds 2°C, Antarctica's melting ice sheets could raise seas 20 metres in coming centuries
  9. How a Minecraft world has built a safe online playground for autistic kids
  10. composition for video gaming draws on tradition and tech
  11. Australia isn't taking the national security threat from far-right extremism seriously enough
  12. When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes last
  13. Making our cities more accessible for people with disability is easier than we think
  14. Here's what happened when codeine was made prescription only. No, the sky didn't fall in
  15. Just because both sides support drought relief, doesn’t mean it's right
  16. Tim Watts on Australia's changing identity
  17. ranitidine, the heartburn medicine being recalled because of cancer-causing contamination
  18. can controversial athletes sell a sport or are they bad for the business?
  19. the rise and fall of an Australian advertising empire
  20. Australia's digital competitiveness is slipping. Here's how we can catch up
  21. What's made of legumes but sizzles on the barbie like beef? Australia's new meat alternative
  22. How China is legally recognising same-sex couples, but not empowering them
  23. Australia's quest for national security is undermining the courts and could lead to secretive trials
  24. Paul Hogan and the myth of the white Aussie bloke
  25. Does your mental state affect recovery from illness and disease? We asked five experts
  26. politicians use it to discredit media, and journalists need to fight back
  27. China's military might is much closer to the US than you probably think
  28. what each of us can do to reduce our carbon footprint
  29. Feeling flight shame? Try quitting air travel and catch a sail boat
  30. The UK Labour Party wants to abolish private schools – could we do that in Australia?
  31. Another Australian PM finds a phone call with Trump can land you on the sticky paper
  32. 0.75% is a record low, but don't think for a second the Reserve Bank has finished cutting the cash rate
  33. control of the global computer-chip industry
  34. Is there such thing as an addictive personality?
  35. experimental Australian films as poetic diary entries
  36. Winter storms are speeding up the loss of Arctic sea ice
  37. how do scientists know evolution is real?
  38. Tens of thousands of tuna-attracting devices are drifting around the Pacific
  39. Fiji’s ancient hill forts and what we can learn from them
  40. Gonski’s vision of 'personalised learning' will stifle creativity and lead to a generation of automatons
  41. a plan to solve our shortage of cemetery space
  42. With no end in sight and the world losing interest, the Hong Kong protesters need a new script
  43. 1 in 3 young adults are lonely – and it affects their mental health
  44. Any prosecution of journalists for national security offences to require attorney-general's approval
  45. The AFL sells an inclusive image of itself. But when it comes to race and gender, it still has a way to go
  46. which is smarter – a blue whale or an orca?
  47. Back to Back Theatre's exciting reframing of disability
  48. Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg
  49. How to turn Auckland's inner city streets into public spaces people can enjoy
  50. 'Developing' rift points to growing divisions between Coalition and Labor on China

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Cost Savings and Benefits of Using Used Pallets in Logistics

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