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47% say prioritise cutting power bills: Ipsos

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
47% say prioritise cutting power bills: IpsosThe poll found stark differences between voting intentions and attitude to energy policy.Shutterstock

Fresh focus will turn to the energy debate this week, with a Fairfax Ipsos poll showing 47% of Australians support giving the main priority to cutting bills, and Labor expected to release details of its energy policy.

The Ipsos poll found 39% want...

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The Brexit mess could lead to a break-up of a no longer United Kingdom

  • Written by: Ben Wellings, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
The Brexit mess could lead to a break-up of a no longer United KingdomThe crisis enveloping the British government started when Britons voted "yes" to leaving the European Union in 2016.Neil Hall/EPA

Behind the scenes at Westminster and the teetering fate of the British government lies an even more profound change in British politics: the very real possibility of the break-up of the United Kingdom.

In this situation...

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It's the right time to review the world's chemical weapons convention

  • Written by: Martin Boland, Senior Lecturer of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Charles Darwin University
It's the right time to review the world's chemical weapons conventionChemical weapons in civilian attacks;: Novichok decontamination work in the area where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found poisoned and unconscious in Salisbury, UK.Shutterstock/Amani A

The chemical weapons convention (CWC) is one of the most successful arms control treaties in existence. It outlaws the production, stockpiling or research on...

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Logging must stop in Melbourne's biggest water supply catchment

  • Written by: David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Logging must stop in Melbourne's biggest water supply catchmentClearfell logging in the Thomson Catchment with the Thomson Reservoir in the background. Chris Taylor

Continued logging in Melbourne’s water catchments could reduce the city’s water supply by the equivalent of 600,000 people’s annual water use every year by 2050, according to our analysis.

We calculated water lost due to logging...

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  2. do hangover cures actually work?
  3. Evidence of aliens? What to make of research and reporting on 'Oumuamua, our visitor from space
  4. Frydenberg lashes out at Malaysia's prime minister for anti-Semitism
  5. Labor's two-step plan for a vote on becoming a republic has some precedents
  6. Will an ambitious Chinese-built rail line through the Himalayas lead to a debt trap for Nepal?
  7. Man who burnt his wife alive gets at least 27 years' jail, but not life
  8. Government to provide more funds for prosecuting bank crime
  9. Omega-3 supplements in pregnancy reduce the risk of premature birth
  10. Why you like coffee, and I choose tea – it's in the genes
  11. bad for them and the planet
  12. turning up the level of civilisation
  13. How Australia's NRA-inspired gun lobby is trying to chip away at gun control laws, state by state
  14. A tip for bankers ahead of the royal commission: be more like doctors
  15. why the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is so important for keeping Antarctica frozen
  16. Morrison government brings back memories of McMahon days
  17. Why early diagnosis of autism should lead to early intervention
  18. Derryn Hinch on a national ICAC and the Victorian election
  19. There's no need for the 'Chicago principles' in Australian universities to protect freedom of speech
  20. Yes, a WhatsApp message could be subject to FOI – but you'd have to find it first
  21. Marriage has changed dramatically throughout history, but gender inequalities remain
  22. Toilets of the future must be designed with people in mind, not technology
  23. Cambodians await crucial tribunal finding into 1970s brutal Khmer Rouge regime
  24. Rainbow pride flag's still flying, taking on new forms and meanings in our cities
  25. Australia needs to triple its social housing by 2036. This is the best way to do it
  26. there's more to regulation than prosecution
  27. How anti-Semitic stereotypes from a century ago echo today
  28. A super-Earth found in our stellar back yard
  29. what we can learn from anti-fossil fuel campaigns
  30. Despite new findings, the jury is still out on whether omega-3 supplements reduce heart attacks
  31. a dangerous form of gambling luring in vulnerable Australians
  32. Opt-out period for My Health Record extended
  33. Death doulas can fill care gaps at the end of life
  34. A knowing, modern yet mythic production of one of Hitler's favourite operas
  35. Behind the judgement. Why the Federal Court tore up a $35m settlement between ASIC and Westpac over lending standards
  36. Why Sri Lanka is sliding into political turmoil, and what could happen next
  37. Curious Kids: What is dew?
  38. 3D concrete printing could free the world from boring buildings
  39. There are many good ideas to tackle inequality – it's time we acted on them
  40. the bad economics behind swapping stamp duty for land tax
  41. Hospital discharges to ‘no fixed address’ – here's a much better way
  42. The Beatles’ White Album remixed
  43. Why is everyone talking about natural sequence farming?
  44. The bitter lesson of the Californian fires
  45. In his first major foreign policy test, Morrison needs to stick to the script
  46. Taxonomy, the science of naming things, is under threat
  47. The link between terrorism and mental illness is complicated, and vilifying communities doesn't help
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