More electric vehicles (EVs) are hitting Australia’s roads, and more public charging stations are being installed to support them. What is missing, however, is an Australian standard or even a recommendation…
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Most of the mainstream media reported the election as if the contest between Labor and the Coalition actually represented different sides on the important issues of the day. However, most of the issues…
How would you characterise the mainstream media’s performance during the election campaign? At a time when our leading scientists are continually spelling out the massive and urgent threats that climate…
In Australia, the “cute and cuddlies” receive the vast amount of publicity and conservation management dollars. Little is left for the small, scaly and slimy species that many consider just plain creepy…
Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt’s ambition to broker a new global rainforest recovery plan reopens an important conversation about Australia’s role in tackling tropical deforestation. And it…
We are about to show the children of today and tomorrow and the rest of the world that we don’t really care about them. Australians are about to elect the Coalition into federal government. A Coalition…
In a move that was paradoxically as unexpected as it was inevitable, Finnish mobile phone company Nokia has sold its mobile phones business to Microsoft for US$7.2 billion. The deal comes at a time when…
On Wednesday this week the Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey and Shadow Finance Minister Andrew Robb issued a strongly worded press statement that refuted the federal government’s claims that the opposition…
In an effort to appeal to the small business sector Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced that if he is re-elected he would move to cut the red tape associated with GST reporting for small businesses…
Recent polling shows that the majority of younger voters intend to vote for the parties on the “left” (ALP and Greens) whereas the majority of older voters intend to vote for the parties on the “right…
There is a particular kind of budget shortfall that won’t get any mention in this election campaign, and yet this shortfall has immense implications for the economic and social future of Australia. The…
Here we are within four weeks of the federal election and the two major parties small business policies are now taking shape. Much of what is in these policy packages is not new, but it might be worth…
Most parents will tell you that they would do anything to protect their children. Many would go as far as to sacrifice their own life to save their child’s. This is said to be part of ‘human nature’. Climate…
The risk of a couple who have a child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder having another child with the same condition is around 7%, according to a new Danish study released today. The new findings, published…
The recent announcement by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to offer lower company tax rates for northern Australia has received a range of positive and negative criticism. However, it is not a new idea. As long…
Faced with the existential threat of a nuclear war between the USA and USSR in the mid 1980s Sting sang “I hope the Russians love their children too.” Today as a father and child advocate I am just as…
For those still believing that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) pose no threat to established universities, Georgia Tech has launched the first accredited fully online Masters of Computer Science based…
Natural gas has been extracted from Australia’s North West Shelf and exported as liquefied natural gas (LNG) for almost 30 years. It is Australia’s fastest growing resource export. But the recent introduction…
At a time when conservative international organisations including the World Bank and the International Energy Agency are warning that we are heading for 4 degrees or more of warming and that this will…
Prime minister Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Tony Abbott have faced off in the first televised leaders’ debate of the 2013 election campaign. In a debate largely framed by the economic issues, Rudd…
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Research Associate in galaxy evolution, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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PhD candidate in literary studies, The University of Western Australia
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Cognitive Psychology Researcher, The University of Western Australia
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Forrest Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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PhD candidate, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Ecology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Tax Law, The University of Western Australia
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Forrest Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, The University of Western Australia
