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Under a cloud: South Australia’s wind farms have been blamed for price spikes, but without them the volatility would be even worse. Tim Phillips Photos/Wikimedia Commons

South Australia’s electricity price woes are more due to gas than wind

Hugh Saddler, Australian National University

South Australia’s electricity price spikes during this month’s calm weather have been blamed on its reliance on wind turbines. But a bigger problem is the rising price of gas-fired power.
Now that the election is done and dusted what needs to change in politics? Dean Lewins/AAP

Lessons from the election

John Hewson, Australian National University

The major parties seem to be having considerable difficulty drawing lessons from the recent election campaign. Of course, there are many. The most obvious, but probably the most difficult for them to accept…
En Australie, des études ont montré que le gecko posséderait au moins dix espèces « cryptiques ». www.shutterstock.com

Biodiversité, combien de millions d’espèces ?

Mike Lee, Flinders University and Paul Oliver, Australian National University

La Terre est couverte d’espèces variées, des plus grandes aux plus petites. Mais nous pensons maintenant qu’il pourrait y avoir dix fois plus d’espèces que l’on pensait à l’origine.
A student performs yoga during World Yoga Day in Srinagar. Danish Ismail/Reuters

How the Indian diaspora is shaping the battle for yoga’s soul

Shameem Black, Australian National University

India has a Minister for Yoga and released an official song on International Yoga Day. But as the downward-facing dog (and other poses) sweep the West, identifying yoga as ‘Indian’ may increasingly be an uphill battle.
Turnbull might be hamstrung by his barely-there majority. AAP Image/Paul Miller

Can Malcolm Turnbull do climate and energy policy now?

Frank Jotzo, Australian National University

Malcolm Turnbull returns to the helm with a wafer-thin majority and a significant element in his government who still oppose climate action - can he defy the odds and serve up some credible policy?
Three more years for Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition. AAP/David Moir

Election 2016: what will a re-elected Coalition government mean for key policy areas?

Jeff Borland, The University of Melbourne; Ben Spies-Butcher, Macquarie University; Deborah Ralston, Monash University; Diana Perche, Macquarie University; Emmaline Bexley, The University of Melbourne; Glenn C Savage, The University of Melbourne; Helen Dickinson, The University of Melbourne; Jago Dodson, RMIT University; Jim Gillespie, University of Sydney; Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW Sydney; John Wanna, Australian National University; Mary Anne Kenny, Murdoch University; Merlin Crossley, UNSW Sydney; Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney; Robyn Eckersley, The University of Melbourne; Susan Irvine, Queensland University of Technology, and Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, The University of Melbourne

What’s in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
How well did our experts’ predictions match the results at the ballot box? AAP/Richard Wainwright

State of the states: what were the issues and seats that mattered in Australia’s state and territories?

Anne Tiernan, Griffith University; David Hayward, RMIT University; Gregory Melleuish, University of Wollongong; John Warhurst, Australian National University; Natalie Mast, The University of Western Australia; Richard Eccleston, University of Tasmania; Rob Manwaring, Flinders University, and Rolf Gerritsen, Charles Darwin University

We reconvened our State of the states experts to respond to the results of the 2016 federal election.
Despite ongoing conflict in the DRC, the number of endangered mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park has increased. Shutterstock

Conservation efforts can’t afford to shy away from high-risk conflict zones

Edd Hammill, Utah State University; Ayesha Tulloch, Australian National University; Hugh Possingham, The University of Queensland; Kerrie Wilson, The University of Queensland, and Niels Strange, University of Copenhagen

For the survival of iconic species in Africa, it is crucial that conservation efforts do not ignore conflict zones.
University education has paid a rate of return of around 15%. from www.shutterstock.com

Higher education pays for itself many times over

Glenn Withers, Australian National University

Not only does higher education build the economy’s skills and knowledge, but that it pays for itself and much else many times over.
How many species of frog are in the picture? Genetics often says ‘more than we thought’. Michael Lee (Flinders University & South Australian Museum)

The Earth’s biodiversity could be much greater than we thought

Mike Lee, Flinders University and Paul Oliver, Australian National University

The Earth is full of many varied species from the largest mammals to the tiniest organisms. But we now think there could be ten times more species than was originally thought.

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