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Housing with no serious faults and buyer protection – is that too much to ask of builders and regulators?

  • Written by: Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW

Regulation of the Australian building industry is broken, according to the Shergold-Weir report to the Building Ministers’ Forum (BMF).

[…] we have concluded that [the] nature and extent [of problems] are significant and concerning. The problems have led to diminishing public confidence that the building and construction industry can...

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We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here's why it could happen again

  • Written by: Robert Vertessy, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne

Over the recent summer, three significant fish death events occurred in the lower Darling River near Menindee, New South Wales. Species involved included Murray Cod, Silver Perch, Golden Perch and Bony Herring, with deaths estimated to be in the range of hundreds of thousands to over a million fish. These events were a serious ecological shock to...

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We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers

  • Written by: David Harvey, Associate professor in mathematics, UNSW
We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbersIf you thought multiplication tables at school were hard, imagine multiplying numbers with billions of digits.Shutterstock/Nina Buday

Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right?

At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this:

We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbersThe long way to multiplication.David Harvey

Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least...

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Dutton suffers reflux after tasty Chinese meal

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

The fallout from the extraordinary revelations about Peter Dutton’s contact with Chinese Communist Party-aligned billionaire Huang Xiangmo is a potent brew, its ingredients the issue of foreign interference and the legacy of last year’s leadership challenge.

A tale full of spooky overtones, mates, ironies, and payback.

Monday’s...

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  1. Vicki Laveau-Harvie's remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize
  2. Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie
  3. The Coalition's report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails
  4. More hospitals will not cure Australia's ailing health-care system. There's a more efficient way
  5. From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations
  6. Coalition gets a bounce in Newspoll, but not in Ipsos or Essential
  7. The ABC didn't receive a reprieve in the budget. It's still facing staggering cuts
  8. Squid team finds high species diversity off Kermadec Islands, part of stalled marine reserve proposal
  9. green-collar criminals or civil 'disobedients'?
  10. Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine
  11. the curious case of shy lizards and deadly cane toads
  12. Business-as-usual record on transport leaves next government plenty of room to improve
  13. NZ journalists arrested in Fiji have been released but a new era of press freedom is yet to arrive
  14. A detailed eucalypt family tree helps us see how they came to dominate Australia
  15. The 14 Indigenous words for money on the new 50 cent coin
  16. What will the Coalition be remembered for on tax? Tinkering, blunders and lost opportunities
  17. Politicians need to listen up before they speak up – and listen in the right places
  18. Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed
  19. Which families delay sending their child to school, and why? We crunched the numbers
  20. We need new rules for defining who is sick. Step 1: remove vested interests
  21. In Australia, climate policy battles are endlessly reheated
  22. Australia has a new National Construction Code, but it's still not good enough
  23. Control, cost and convenience determine how Australians use the technology in their homes
  24. It's the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani
  25. All female mammals have a clitoris – we're starting to work out what that means for their sex lives
  26. Labor's cancer package would cut the cost of care, but beware of unintended side effects
  27. How has education policy changed under the Coalition government?
  28. Tourists behaving badly are a threat to global tourism, and the industry is partly to blame
  29. how did the months get their names?
  30. The swamp foxtail's origin is hidden in its DNA
  31. Casual academics aren't going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn't affected?
  32. your guide to the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist
  33. Mercury pollution from decades past may have been re-released by Tasmania's bushfires
  34. should we nap during the day?
  35. $500m for station car parks? Other transport solutions could do much more for the money
  36. What the data say about discrimination and tolerance in New Zealand
  37. Chinese investment in Australia is down 36%. It's time for a more balanced debate about the national interest
  38. Edible seaweed can be used to grow blood vessels in the body
  39. What will the Turnbull-Morrison government be remembered for?
  40. Coalition narrows gap to trail 48-52% in post-budget Newspoll
  41. Cutting cancer costs is a worthy policy, but we need to try to prevent it too
  42. Those future tax cut promises... they're nowhere near as big as you'd think
  43. Artificial intelligence in Australia needs to get ethical, so we have a plan
  44. Trapdoor spider species that stay local put themselves at risk
  45. Michelle Grattan on the government's benign budget and Shorten's mic drop
  46. New Zealand gun owners invoke NRA-style tropes in response to fast-tracked law change
  47. It's time for Indigenous nationhood to replace a failing colonial authority
  48. why do tigers have whiskers?
  49. 'enhancing' forensic audio can mislead juries in criminal trials
  50. The 'painless woman' helps us see how anxiety and fear fit in the big picture of pain

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