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Energy giants want to thwart reforms that would help renewables and lower power bills

  • Written by: Daniel J Cass, Research Affiliate, Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
Energy giants want to thwart reforms that would help renewables and lower power billsDarren England/AAP

Australia’s energy market is outdated. It doesn’t encourage competition and that’s holding back the transition to renewable energy. Important reforms to modernise the market are on the way, but big energy companies are seeking to use the cover of COVID-19 to prevent the change.

This is bad for consumers, and for...

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Think slavery in Australia was all in the past? Think again

  • Written by: Fiona McGaughey, Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, University of Western Australia
Think slavery in Australia was all in the past? Think againShutterstock

In the charged atmosphere of Black Lives Matter demonstrations, Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently made the mistake of stating there was no slavery in Australia. Morrison later apologised for causing offence. He clarified that his comments related specifically to the colony of New South Wales.

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Feeling hopeless? There are things you can do to create and maintain hope in a post-coronavirus world

  • Written by: Patrick O'Leary, Professor and Director of Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith Criminology Institute and School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
Feeling hopeless? There are things you can do to create and maintain hope in a post-coronavirus worldShutterstock

Today is a far cry from what we hoped for and expected from 2020.

After Australia’s disastrous summer of bushfires, the unprecedented upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen serious social and economic effects for us individually and collectively.

Many of us have felt grief. And with grief can emerge feelings of hopelessness...

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What adds value to your house? How to decide between renovating and moving

  • Written by: Sara Wilkinson, Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
What adds value to your house? How to decide between renovating and movingShutterstock

The government’s HomeBuilder scheme allows certain home owners to apply for a tax-free grant of A$25,000 if they are spending between $150,000 and $750,000 renovating a home or building a new home. Eligibility criteria are strict.

The scheme has boosted renovation talk in some circles (although, as CoreLogic has pointed out, it...

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  7. Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages
  8. Councils often ignore residents on social media. How can digital platforms ensure they have a say in planning?
  9. Social media platforms need to do more to stop junk food marketers targeting children
  10. Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese 'disinformation'
  11. Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP
  12. 2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still stands
  13. 10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own
  14. should bosses be able to spy on workers, even when they work from home?
  15. Cats wreak havoc on native wildlife, but we’ve found one adorable species outsmarting them
  16. Trust, democracy and COVID-19: A British perspective
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  18. what does the law say about secret recordings and the public interest?
  19. How Paul Keating transformed the economy and the nation
  20. The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds
  21. how Australia's wine industry can adapt to climate change
  22. Karm Gilespie's case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relations
  23. Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female
  24. Australia's decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit
  25. 'Can do' Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating
  26. Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere
  27. Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires
  28. is time travel possible for humans?
  29. what is branch stacking, and why has neither major party been able to stamp it out?
  30. We don't know if breastfeeding is rising or falling in Australia. That's bad for everyone
  31. what we can learn from the successes of post-war reconstruction
  32. Getting vaccinated at the pharmacy? Make sure it's recorded properly
  33. international students make up more than 30% of population in some Australian suburbs
  34. We may live to regret open-slather construction stimulus
  35. Universities and government need to rethink their relationship with each other before it's too late
  36. Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research
  37. experts react to plans to release 2 million fish into the Murray Darling
  38. Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it
  39. The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready
  40. the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest
  41. what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it
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  43. Morrison commits another $1.5 billion for infrastructure
  44. 48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest
  45. Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account
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