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It's clear why coal struggles for finance – and the government can't change that

  • Written by: Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University

The federal government has announced a raft of new measures ostensibly designed to secure energy pricing, boost investment in new “reliable” energy generation, and improve competitiveness in the retail energy market.

At a meeting of state and federal energy ministers last week, it also rejected the greenhouse emissions reductions outlin...

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how to tell the difference between hay fever and the common cold

  • Written by: Reena Ghildyal, Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Canberra
how to tell the difference between hay fever and the common coldBoth make you sneeze and give you a runny nose.Shutterstock/michaelheim

You wake up with a runny nose and, come to think of it, you’ve been sneezing more than usual. It feels like the start of a cold but it’s October – the start of hay fever season – so what is the more likely affiliation?

Hay fever and colds are easy to...

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Some questions for Simon Birmingham, from two researchers whose ARC grant he quashed

  • Written by: Brett Hutchins, Professor of Media and Communications Studies, Monash University

We are two of the researchers affected by Simon Birmingham’s intervention in last year’s Australian Research Council (ARC) funding grants. The title of our application, “Greening Media Sport: The Communication of Environmental Issues and Sustainability in Professional Sport”, was on a list of 11 projects rejected by the...

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  1. Uncomfortable comparisons. Why Rod Sims broke the ACCC record
  2. Dancing Grandmothers offers a moment of communion
  3. Morrison's ratings slump in Newspoll; Wentworth's huge difference in on-the-day and early voting
  4. diverting population growth to the regions
  5. Is there anything hotter than the Sun?
  6. Shorten proposes investment bank to help Pacific nations' development
  7. State governments are vital for Australian democracy: here's why
  8. Grattan Institute Orange Book 2018. State governments matter, vote wisely
  9. Ensuring children get enough physical activity while being safe is a delicate balancing act
  10. Why car sharing had a slow start in Australia
  11. How a near-perfect rectangular iceberg formed
  12. Crowd-mapping gender equality – a powerful tool for shaping a better city launches in Melbourne
  13. The ancient origins of werewolves
  14. Simon Birmingham's intervention in research funding is not unprecedented, but dangerous
  15. The rise of sponges in Anthropocene reef ecosystems
  16. Spinifex grass would like us to stop putting out bushfires, please
  17. Michelle Grattan on the Wentworth washup
  18. Three charts on: how and what Australians eat (hint: it's not good)
  19. Heart attacks more frequent in colder weather
  20. Imagining your own SeaChange – how media inspire our great escapes
  21. Inside the world of million-dollar beauty pageants – for camels
  22. More than a century on, the battle fought by Australia's suffragists is yet to be won
  23. Being in nature is good for learning, here's how to get kids off screens and outside
  24. can you cut your cancer risk by eating organic?
  25. Government to set up new multi-billion Future Drought Fund
  26. Australia's 5% jobless rate is not full employment; pushing up interest rates would be wrong
  27. Please, not another super scheme, Mr Keating. It's what the pension is for
  28. Ancient fish evolved in shallow seas – the very places humans threaten today
  29. a fresh perspective on Leonard Cohen and the island that inspired him
  30. Morrison fights political fire with leaky buckets
  31. Want to improve care in nursing homes? Mandate minimum staffing levels
  32. We have so many ways to pursue a healthy climate – it's insane to wait any longer
  33. Can your actions really save the planet? 'Planetary accounting' has the answer
  34. Why we need more than just data to create ethical driverless cars
  35. why removing sex from birth certificates matters to gender diverse people
  36. Working to reclaim and rebuild our food systems from the ground up
  37. add bars to the window dressing and make them legally binding
  38. Pianist Sir András Schiff returns to Sydney for a sublime recital
  39. launch of The Conversation 2018 Yearbook
  40. Why Australia needs a Religious Discrimination Act
  41. things to consider before going that extra mile for your smile
  42. Why DNA tests for Indigenous heritage mean different things in Australia and the US
  43. Sabrina the teenage witch is back, with a darker look for our times
  44. how to spot and suggest a fact check
  45. The best way to boost the economy is the best way to improve the lives of disadvantaged students
  46. Former Home Affairs officer calls for all refugees to be brought to Australia
  47. Here's how to design cities where people and nature can both flourish
  48. What causes multiple sclerosis? What we know, don't know and suspect
  49. Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation right
  50. The fair go is a fading dream, but don't write it off

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