There’s no evidence Airbnb is worsening housing affordability. Rather it empowers female hosts and promotes small businesses in remote communities.
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Australians import millions of flowers for Valentine’s Day. Let’s consider some ways to be eco-friendly.
Population growth for growth’s sake (as a proxy for economic growth), without consideration for the demands this creates might actually compromise Tasmania’s economy.
A dozen leading researchers have issued an urgent call to action for the Murray-Darling Basin, arguing that the billions spent on water-efficient irrigation have done little for the rivers’ health.
Every festival in Australia sends countless bits of glitter down the drain (and into the ocean). But you can still shine on – in bio-glitter.
Listeners often describe the music presented at Tasmania’s Mofo festival as ‘weird’. But to do so sells the experience short.
Reconciliation between the Settler and First Nations populations is a self-evident prerequisite for Australia cutting the ties of colonial dependency with Britain to stand on our own.
That colonial wars were fought in Tasmania is irrefutable. More controversially, surviving evidence suggests the British enacted genocidal policies against the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
Gratitude for and celebrating of the accomplishments of teachers is essential to keeping them motivated and engaged in the profession.
Politicians are always being told to trust what climate scientists are telling them. But can you have too much of a good thing? What happens when the exchange of ideas becomes too cosy?
The improvements in the government’s debt position are entirely because of revisions in economic assumptions, not fantastic fiscal management.
Australia’s national obsession with prescribed burning won’t be enough to manage the growing risk of devastating bushfires.
The fact that Westfield’s founders are moving out of physical store development to invest in innovative retail technology shows what’s to come in Australian retail.
While school sores – or impetigo – is a treatable condition, if left untreated it can lead to much more serious illness such as kidney and heart disease.
Retailers are banking on some of our behavioural and emotional traits to get us to sign up to subscription boxes.
Adaptively re-using buildings can preserve heritage while enabling new uses that help make cities more liveable and sustainable.
January 26 marks one of the greatest expropriations in modern history, which took place at Sydney Cove. Why do so many Australians want to commemorate an act of egregious injustice?
Labor has announced it will not support any amendments to the Dean Smith same-sex marriage bill, including an amendment proposed by George Brandis. Here’s why it is right to do so.
An analysis of of countries that allow same-sex marriage shows that the proposed amendments to the Dean Smith bill, if allowed, would still enshrine much discrimination.
Concerns about foreign investors driving up housing prices have been growing. Australia was first to bar foreign purchases of existing residential property, but New Zealand is set to go further.
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Adviser, Antarctica and Marine Systems, Science & Policy, University of Tasmania
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Research Associate, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Research Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Writer, author, journalist, Associate Lecturer in English & Writing, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy & Gender Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor, University of Tasmania
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Climate Research Fellow with the Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania
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Associate professor of oceanography, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Senior lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Health and Physical Education Education, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
