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The battle to be the Amazon (or Netflix) of transport

  • Written by: Neil Sipe, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Queensland

High-tech companies and venture capitalists have been striving to break into the transport and mobility market. Between 2016 and 2018, venture capital investment in urban technology surpassed that of many other areas, including pharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence. Almost 70% of this investment was in mobility.


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For the first time we've looked at every threatened bird in Australia side-by-side

  • Written by: Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
For the first time we've looked at every threatened bird in Australia side-by-sideSuccess with conservation of Kangaroo Island’s Glossy Black-Cockatoos can now be compared with other bird conservation efforts around the country.Ian Sanderson/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Glossy Black-Cockatoos used to be common on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island until possums started eating their eggs and chicks. After volunteers helped...

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We'll wait an eternity for the banks to fix themselves. Here's what we can do now

  • Written by: Paul Johnson, Warden, Forrest Research Foundation, University of Western Australia
We'll wait an eternity for the banks to fix themselves. Here's what we can do nowNAB Chairman Ken Henry says it might take NAB ten years to fix itself. There's no point in waiting.Shutterstock

Asked at the banking royal commission how long it might take to embed the right culture in the National Australia Bank, its chairman Ken Henry replied: ten years.

As head of the Commonwealth Treasury before he left to join the NAB board in...

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  1. Day One of minority government sees battle over national integrity commission
  2. One in five NSW high school kids suffers "severe" deprivation of life's essentials
  3. A brilliant artist whose life was rudely interrupted by colonisers
  4. how long should I wait between pregnancies?
  5. What are some of the challenges to Mars travel?
  6. Senate president Scott Ryan launches grenade against the right
  7. Labor's policy can smooth the energy transition, but much more will be needed to tackle emissions
  8. Why regulating facial recognition technology is so problematic
  9. Ambulance call-outs for pregabalin have spiked – here's why
  10. avoid, shift, share and improve
  11. Mindfulness can help PhD students shift from surviving to thriving
  12. Why Christians prefer classical music and non-believers like heavy metal
  13. how research works out what really leads to an increased disease risk
  14. Labor's 55-45% Newspoll lead adds to Liberals' weekend of woe
  15. Coalition pares back losses in late counting, as predicted chaos eventuates in upper house
  16. Victorian Labor's thumping win reveals how out of step with voters Liberals have become
  17. Labor has landslide win in Victoria
  18. The latest citizenship-stripping plan risks statelessness, indefinite detention and constitutional challenge
  19. how a dust storm, and hazardous air quality, can harm your health
  20. Building our own warships is Australia's path to the next industrial revolution
  21. Innovation could just mean a better kind of co-operation
  22. What skills does a cybersecurity professional need?
  23. Michelle Grattan on Labor's energy plan, and the government's anti-terrorism measures
  24. In the post-APEC scramble to lavish funds on PNG, here's what the country really needs
  25. does Victoria have Australia's lowest rate of public school funding?
  26. Friday essay: 50 shades of Shakespeare
  27. Why Canada's immigration system has been a success, and what Australia can learn from it
  28. Labor's battery plan – good policy, or just good politics?
  29. No, crying doesn't release toxins, though it might make you feel better... if that's what you believe
  30. Designing cities to counter loneliness? Let's explore the possibilities
  31. do I really need a specific shoe for a specific sport?
  32. Blocking Chinese gas takeover won't damage Australia's foreign investment pipeline
  33. Barley is not a random choice – here's the real reason China is taking on Australia over dumping
  34. Labor's energy policy is savvy – now is it scare-proof?
  35. Aboriginal health messages need to be made with us rather than for us
  36. How Australia’s Mandarin speakers get their news
  37. It’s still worth it for overseas students to study in Australia, but universities could be doing more
  38. China's legalisation of rhino horn trade: disaster or opportunity?
  39. Why we should remember Boorong, Bennelong's third wife, who is buried beside him
  40. Here's a tip that could make banks phenomenally successful: radical honesty
  41. Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment
  42. Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their 'Black Friday' sales
  43. City water restrictions hurt our most vulnerable – especially women
  44. A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we're about to find out how we use our time
  45. With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?
  46. It's hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused too
  47. It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works
  48. Households to get $2000 subsidy for batteries under Shorten energy policy
  49. Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?
  50. Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody

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