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Are shipping containers really the answer for affordable housing? Time for a reality check

  • Written by Vidyasagar Potdar, Senior Research Fellow, School of Information Systems, Curtin University
imageThere's a lot to consider before you can be sure a shipping container home is your best affordable housing option.Nicolás Boullosa/flickr, CC BY

Housing affordability issues in Australia have resulted in people looking for alternative ways to build accommodation more cheaply. A recent worldwide trend has been to convert shipping containers...

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Labor's 'Mediscare' campaign capitalised on Coalition history of hostility towards Medicare

  • Written by Jim Gillespie, Deputy Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Associate Professor in Health Policy, University of Sydney

The Australian Labor Party’s Medicare campaign has been dubbed an election changer.

While outsourcing data management and billing systems raises issues of confidentiality and access, the possible changes would not affect access to Medicare. To this extent, criticisms that Labor ran a misleading campaign have some basis.

But scare campaigns...

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Politics podcast: James Pearson on the knife-edge result and business confidence

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The election has plunged Australia into uncertainty and placed a possible question mark over the country for companies looking to invest. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO James Pearson tells Michelle Grattan that businesses are disappointed there isn’t a clear result and that policies that are pro-business will now be harder...

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  1. In a world of low rates, what else can the RBA and central banks do?
  2. In rare cases, a dog's lick can carry more than just love
  3. Caught short: we need to talk about public toilets
  4. Companies may be misleading investors by not openly assessing the true value of assets
  5. Playing politics with your future: what a hung parliament could mean for super
  6. Maggie's Plan: screwball comedy meets witty academic satire
  7. A guide to the nanotechnology used in the average home
  8. Too much salt and sugar and not enough exercise – why Australians' health is lagging
  9. Finally, a proven way to keep great white sharks at arm's length
  10. Despite experts' fears, Australia should be moving to electronic online voting
  11. This parliament – hung or unhung – will bring us another continuous election campaign
  12. 'Mediscare' campaign shows the power of negative advertising
  13. FactCheck Q A: are Indigenous women 34-80 times more likely than average to experience violence?
  14. We can't save all wildlife, so conservation laws need to change
  15. Why dick doodles on the ballot paper are their own election statement
  16. Health Check: what are the risks of drinking before you know you're pregnant?
  17. Volkswagen’s record settlement payout: treating the symptom not the disease
  18. The off-topic Conversation #100
  19. A new era may be dawning again for radical right populists in Austria and Europe
  20. Even if he keeps the top job, Malcolm Turnbull's troubles have only just begun
  21. Lessons for the post-EU British film industry from the collapse of the Soviet Union
  22. How ants walk backwards carrying a heavy load and still find home
  23. Invisible children: research shows up to one in five Aboriginal newborns aren't registered
  24. Pollution guidelines leave a blind spot for assessing the impact of coal and oil
  25. Labor leadership talk a bit of mischievous arson
  26. Turnbull stands solid against returning Abbott to frontbench
  27. Enigmatic Turnbull creates his own misfortune and will be forever diminished by it
  28. An uncertain election result may lead to stagnant financial markets
  29. Economic policy challenges will swamp our election outcome, no matter who ends up winning
  30. The myth of public opinion
  31. Explainer: why don't we know who won the election and what happens now?
  32. Explainer: what is a ‘hung parliament’, and how will a government be formed?
  33. After messy night, Coalition more likely to form government – but Pauline Hanson is in the Senate
  34. Malcolm Turnbull sounded tone deaf to election message
  35. Major rebuff to Malcolm Turnbull as poll result hovers on knife edge
  36. Infographic: what we know so far about the results of Election 2016
  37. Final polls have Coalition favoured
  38. Gina Rinehart, Weight Loss and Women Under the Microscope
  39. #ausvotes: a final update from the social media hustings
  40. Overcharged for hearing aids? Australia's audiology industry isn't rogue, but needs improvement
  41. Brexit is done, now what about accounting?
  42. Just how safe are Australia's airports?
  43. Brexit harms startups but it may not be fatal
  44. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the campaign's final week
  45. Higher education pays for itself many times over
  46. Crossing the line: why the royal commission examined initiation rituals and defence abuse
  47. Malcolm Turnbull: a prime minister on probation in search of a mandate
  48. Friday essay: the Battle of the Somme and the death of martial glory
  49. Black market jobs cost Australia billions and youth are at the coalface
  50. Your wireless footprint can help police catch a thief
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