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Strong rhetoric underpins Abbott’s budget strategy
In last night’s budget reply, Tony Abbott crowed he will “put the house back in order” and that the “budget will be in better hands under a Coalition government than under Labor”. It was a very measured…
Abbott’s balancing act: keeping the compensation while axing the carbon tax
In his federal budget reply speech, opposition leader Tony Abbott announced that a putative coalition government would maintain the revised tax-free threshold and other associated carbon tax compensation…
Deal or no deal? Action plan for Serbia and Kosovo with EU mediation
Has Labor’s tax aversion left them on the verge of electoral defeat?
On the ‘big table’ of the Security Council, Australia must champion the cause of women
Federal budget 2013: expert reactions
As carbon dioxide hits a new high, there’s still no Planet B
Tasmanian Forests Agreement: liberal society needs an alternative
Trans Pacific Partnership puts member countries' health at risk
Research
Earth’s core has own rotation
The earth’s core spins at a different speed to the outer layer, new research from the Australian National University has…
Antarctic summer turns up the heat
Ice melting in Antarctica during summer has increased almost ten-fold in the past 600 years, with the most severe increases…
Salt overdose kills malaria
A new class of antimalarial drug has been discovered, using spiroindolones to block a pump within the malaria parasites face…
Regular gamblers unaware of signs of addiction
Regular players of electronic gaming machines find it difficult to identify early signs of problem gambling and are reluctant…
Island hotspots are created by plumes
The hypothesis that plumes of hot magma are responsible for the formation of island chains is supported by new studies…
Motion of tectonic plates changes less often than first thought
Sugar linked to brain shrinkage: study
Different carbon policies will impose varying costs on nations
Mekong dams put millions at risk of hunger
Antarctic ice core sheds light on rising temperatures
Fossils predict oceans to rise more than expected
Carbon tax inevitable, say big emitters
Report looks at future of Australian rail industry
Australian-native Lyrebirds pros in mimicry
Underwater volcanoes discovered North of Fiji
Ancient poo unearths clues on Asian evolution
Oil to stay untapped in Ecuadorian Amazon
Making some noise for quantum computers
Eye damage halted by infrared light
The keys to life on Earth-like planets
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Authors
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Ajay Narendra
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
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Andrew Macintosh
Associate Professor ANU College of Law and Associate Director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy
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Anthony McMichael
Professor & NHMRC Australia Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health
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Frank Jotzo
Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy
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George Dracoulis
Professor, Department of Nuclear Physics
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John Hart
Reader in Political Science
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Kevin Boreham
Lecturer in International Law
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Matthew Gray
Senior lecturer: Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
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Melanie Nolan
Director of the National Centre of Biography
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Peter Collignon
Professor, infectious diseases and microbiology
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Richard Jones
Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science and IT
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Rick Kuhn
Reader in Politics
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Rod Lamberts
Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science
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Stephen Buckman
Professor; Research Director ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies
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Steve Vanderheiden
Professorial Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics