The Haiyan Typhoon disaster is a cautionary case for climate adaptation and mitigation because it demonstrates the seductiveness of survival myths.
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Future Earth Australia is working to create a long-term national plan of transformation for our cities. As part of this, everyone in Australia is invited to have their say in a survey.
The world has no hope of reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement without seriously reducing emissions from agriculture, forestry and land clearing.
Associating all bridging visas with 'scammers' and 'illegal migrants' misses the bigger picture of the role bridging visas play in our changing immigration regime.
What's needed is strong leadership and sustained public pressure that makes it is harder for political parties to turn a blind eye to sexual harassment and assault.
Supporting mums in prison and whose babies are in care to breastfeed has benefits for mums, their children and wider society.
If breast milk was made in factories, we'd count it in the GDP.
Hitting the Paris targets will go a long way to securing Melbourne's water supply against future pressure.
Similar concerns were raised 40 years ago when the Department of Defence was formed, but the decision to merge several agencies is now held up for its strategic vision.
The new AFP commissioner faces challenges unlike those of his predecessors, such as ensuring the independence and integrity of the police force within the Home Affairs ministry.
Many rural town water supplies cannot weather even a single year of drought. This is a failure of planning and funding on a grand scale.
There is a case for not proceeding with, or at least deferring, the legislated increase in employers’ compulsory super contributions, but it isn't the one the Grattan Institute makes.
Rightly or wrongly, the Coalition views its election reprieve as a blunt rejection of Shorten’s big-spending, big taxing approach.
Prisoners who took part in an eight-week yoga trial in a Canberra prison showed improvements in their levels of depression, anxiety and stress, as well as an increase in self-esteem.
Jaringan terorisme menggunakan cara legal dan ilegal untuk mendanai kegiatan mereka. Nampaknya, penggunaan bisnis legal mereka sedang meningkat.
Terrorism networks employ both legal and illegal ways to fund their activities. Their use of legal businesses seems to be on the rise.
Some 58 metres of sea level rise is locked up in Antartica's ice sheets, and it's melting faster than expected.
How does China go about winning back the hearts and minds of the world? Its obsession with control and misplaced soft power efforts are clearly not doing it any favours.
Facebook's cryptocurrency and digital wallet will give it unprecedented access to personal data, with the power to take on Amazon and eBay.
Greenland's ice made headlines in June, as warm weather made for unseasonably widespread melting. And though this summer is still unfolding, the human fingerprint on Greenland's ice can't be denied.
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Lecturer, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Associate, Climate Change Research Centre, Australian National University
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Science, Australian National University
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Researcher, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Counter Terrorism and Social Cohesion, National Security College, Australian National University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Lecturer, International Relations, Australian National University
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Lecturer, School of Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University
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Director, Climate Change Institute, Australian National University
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Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australian National University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
