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There’s been a deafening silence in recent Australian elections over the environment. But it hasn’t always been the case.
The ups and downs of climate policy since the 2013 federal election.
Experts in the UK, US, India, Indonesia and NZ explain how Australia’s election is playing out abroad and what’s at stake for our neighbours and allies.
Without long-term solutions to the imbalance between incomes and house prices, Gen Ys face a lifetime of renting without the financial and emotional security of home ownership.
How would each of the major parties better regulate the finance and business sectors?
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo kept monkeys as pets and painted them often. They symbolised the children she couldn’t have and were worshipped as gods of fertility in Aztec times.
20% of surveyed early education educators said they want to leave their job due to low pay, volume of paperwork and feeling undervalued.
It is not too late to change the current direction of Australia’s NBN from one that just meets today’s demands, to one that we need for the future.
Value capture is touted as a way to fund infrastructure, but what actually is it?
How will the Brexit referendum work? And what distinguishes it from referendums that have been held in Australia?
They should be our pre-eminent national writing prizes. Instead, these awards bob on the vast sea of daily politics, occasionally getting dumped by a breaker.
About 8% of the population is unable to metabolise codeine, and a small number metabolise it at a much larger extent.
There’s rarely good news in conservation - but we’ve been studying a program that actually works.
Younger firms are voicing their support for a new type of long-term stock exchange, seeking investors in it for the long-haul.
How does Australia fare in science and research funding? Where have recent cuts been made? This infographic shows the state of science funding in Australia.
Indi has a potentially large number of floating voters at the local scale, mirroring the situation nationally. What do the people of Indi think about issues of trust?
A British exit from the European Union will mean short term volatility on global markets, but the longer term outcomes are more uncertain.
Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
ASIC is teaming up with its Singaporean counterpart to encourage more fintech startups and dip its toe into the fast moving waters of the digital economy.
Public policy no longer requires the imprimatur of the Aboriginal people; Aboriginal participation in the decisions taken about their lives is negligible.
Political parties should commit to supporting the evidence-based recommendations of decades worth of reports into family violence.
The Greens have successfully cast themselves as the party of climate science. But to hit their climate goals they may need to become even more radical, by embracing technologies like nuclear power.
Scholars have long encountered skeletons in the academic closets of peers and intellectual heroes. But is there a point where a scholar’s behaviour is so taboo that their research should be consigned to the academic junk pile?
Australia’s new country of origin food labelling will indicate if food is grown or made in Australia and the proportion of Australian ingredients.
A new font designed called ‘Dyslexie’ was labelled ‘a breakthrough’ by the media for reportedly being about to help increase the reading speed of those with dyslexia. But does it really work?