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Australians will not buy electric cars without better incentives

  • Written by: Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
Australians will not buy electric cars without better incentivesWe need to plan for electric cars, but at this stage we need incentives - not extra taxes.byronv2/Flickr, CC BY-NC

The apparently inevitable rise of the electric car has prompted Australia’s top federal infrastructure advisor to warn of falling revenues from the petrol excise.

In a speech yesterday, Infrastructure Australia chief...

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Michelle Grattan on the budget outlook

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

Michelle Grattan speaks with University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics. They discuss the shock resignation of Labor MP Tim Hammond, the latest Gonski report, a change in Labor’s stance on live sheep exports and the federal budget outlook.

Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in...

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The 2018 Archibald, Sulman and Wynne prizes show a changing of the guard

  • Written by: Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW
The 2018 Archibald, Sulman and Wynne prizes show a changing of the guardDetail from Tom Polo 'I once thought I'd do anything for you (Joan)' acrylic on canvas 152.5 x 101.5cm © the artist Photo: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins

The Archibald Prize, which is in the process of being judged at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, has always been more about social history than art. The works hung are usually a fair selection of...

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neuroscience is advancing, but we're a long way off head transplants

  • Written by: Lyndsey Collins-Praino, Senior Lecturer in School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
neuroscience is advancing, but we're a long way off head transplantsPick a head, any head! from www.shutterstock.com

Take it from me is a new series in Science and Technology, where we find an expert to provide a personal but informed perspective on a topical issue.


In the 1983 film The Man with Two Brains, Steve Martin’s character falls in love with the disembodied brain of a woman named Anne.

But what once...

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  1. the remarkable, prize-winning rise of our small publishers
  2. Company boards are stacked with friends of friends so how can we expect change?
  3. fallout from banking crackdown could be worse than interest rate rises
  4. China-backed Sumatran dam threatens the rarest ape in the world
  5. Beyond breadwinners and homemakers, we need to examine how same-sex couples divide housework
  6. The Dreamtime, science and narratives of Indigenous Australia
  7. Melbourne’s 'doughnut city' housed its homeless
  8. How to tell if your kid's 'fussy eating' phase is normal
  9. What democratic schools can teach us about how to implement Gonski 2.0
  10. Peter Dutton's bid for more crime-fighting power has bought him a fight
  11. The ALP promises to phase out live sheep export
  12. Facebook gets into dating, but there's little scientific evidence online personality matching works
  13. Carrying backpacks doesn't cause back pain in children and teenagers
  14. ReachTEL poll 52-48 to Labor as party faces Perth byelection, and strong swings to US Democrats
  15. Why superhero films such as Infinity War aren't ruining cinema (or our minds)
  16. who is worse off under Coalition budgets?
  17. Australia can do a better job of commercialising research – here's how
  18. A DNA test says you’ve got Indigenous Australian ancestry. Now what?
  19. Revealing how much tax companies pay doesn't move markets or reduce tax avoidance
  20. there is evidence inclusive schooling will help those left behind
  21. Chris Bowen on the budget and Labor's policies
  22. The off-topic Conversation #160
  23. Why decisions to desex male dogs just got more complicated
  24. Rhino fossil rewrites the earliest human history of the Philippines
  25. $500 million for the Great Barrier Reef is welcome, but we need a sea change in tactics too
  26. Rio Tinto's climate change resolution marks a significant shift in investor culture
  27. teaching creativity and critical thinking through the curriculum is already happening
  28. the politics of sugar, sugary drinks and poor nutrition in Australia
  29. The politics behind the competitive neutrality inquiry into ABC and SBS
  30. where they come from and why they still matter
  31. Why your app is updating its privacy settings and how this will affect businesses
  32. gay conversion therapy's deep roots in Australia
  33. DNA facial prediction could make protecting your privacy more difficult
  34. Why some students are excluded from university later in their degree, and how to remedy it
  35. Cannes is right, Netflix movies just aren't the same
  36. Legal precedent based on false beliefs proves hard to overturn
  37. After damning the Commonwealth Bank's management, regulators want the bank to fix itself
  38. Labor MP Tim Hammond quits for family reasons, creating byelection in WA
  39. I go to the gym every day. Why can’t I lose weight?
  40. Greens urge Buffett rule to get more tax from high income earners
  41. Debunking three common myths about divorce and abuse in Muslim communities
  42. Recent Australian droughts may be the worst in 800 years
  43. Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNA
  44. The government could be boosting the budget bottom line with a change to how it taxes gas
  45. Still Point Turning is a vital affirmation of trans people through the story of Catherine McGregor
  46. what works and what to keep in mind when choosing a private treatment provider
  47. six rules for improving city bus services
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