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On Q&A, an audience member said renewable energy is ‘now cheaper than coal’. Senator Matt Canavan disagreed, saying renewables are not ‘at the moment, cheaper than coal’. Let’s look at the numbers.
While climate denialism impedes policymaking in both the US and Australia, there are key differences in their political and public cultures.
The history of the office illustrates not only how our work has changed but also how work’s physical spaces respond to cultural, technological and social forces.
To work out how to reduce the out-of-pocket costs for specialist care, we first need to identify why they are so high.
Malcolm Turnbull’s postal plebiscite on marriage equality is on the cusp of recreating the mistakes of Doug Lowe’s Tasmanian dams plebiscite.
What would possess an Antarctic expedition to take dairy cows to the icy continent? Back in 1933, Admiral Byrd did so for reasons of image-making, publicity and territorial ambition.
Australia was a different place 275 million years ago - wild storms surged through icy seas, and marine animals lived a tenuous existence. But brittle stars had a survival strategy.
Architecture can affect behaviour and the choices we make. The brief is out for a centre to replace the Don Dale facility, but word is, it’s ‘a disgrace’. We can do much better.
Mining social media posts from tourism hotspots such as coral reefs could turn tourists into environmental citizen scientists without them even realising it.
The new study on birth defects and vitamin B3 has important implications, but researchers didn’t actually give any of this vitamin to humans.
Google has fired the author of a controversial diversity memo. It would have been better to create more forums for discussion.
Michelle Grattan and Nicholas Klomp discuss the week in politics.
Ambivalence among voters is reason to think about how democracy is working for us as a community. To keep democracy alive we need to be sceptical about the exercise of power and keep it in check.
Even our most anonymous objects, like the portable electric drill, are sources of cultural expression. It’s time to learn their history.
Despite dire predictions, bookstores are doing well: they are curators of taste and community hubs. But their challenges are many – from the arrival of Amazon Down Under to a ‘post-truth’ climate that devalues knowledge.
Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the senate
After spending a year immersed in the parliamentary machine, broadcaster-turned-senator Derryn Hinch is keen to see a more efficient Senate.
The Martin Place camp and others like it should make us uncomfortable. We live in a system that creates and tolerates homelessness.
One of the great satirical achievements of the mass media era, the editorial cartoon, is losing its centrality in the digital age. Yet the ‘visual terrorism’ of cartoons can cut through the verbiage of political commentary.
The slew of numbers across various major economies this week continue to suggest a mixed picture.
Jamaican Usain Bolt is often hailed as the greatest athlete of all time. But when you crunch the numbers, his name doesn’t come top of the list.
Fracture risk is higher in older women than men, but in adolescence the reverse is true. These differences mean our approach to managing bone health for men and women changes across the ages.
Indonesian peatlands are important to many people: farmers, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and conservationists. But preserving this value for everyone will mean listening to everyone’s concerns.
While Bill Shorten has little at risk, his campaigning on same-sex marriage could come to Malcolm Turnbull’s aid.
Science provides a useful way to explore and understand the natural world. But it also has a richness, diversity and creativity that is often overlooked.