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It's 30 years since scientists first warned of climate threats to Australia

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
imageThe Barossa Valley in 1987 – the year that Australians (winemakers included) received their first formal warning of climate change.Phillip Capper/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Keen students of climate politics might recognise November 30 as the anniversary of the opening of the historic Paris climate summit two years ago. But you might not know...

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Six things New Zealand's new government needs to do to make climate refugee visas work

  • Written by: Nina Hall, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
imageIf New Zealand introduces a climate refugee visa, 100 Pacific Islanders could be granted access on the basis that their home islands, such as Kiribati, are threatened by rising seas.REUTERS/David Gray, CC BY-ND

New Zealand’s new government plans to create the world’s first humanitarian visa for climate refugees.

If the policy goes...

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Dastyari demoted again – but government demands he leave parliament

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

Bill Shorten has forced Labor senator Sam Dastyari to quit as opposition deputy whip in the Senate – but the government is demanding he quits parliament over his dealings with a Chinese national of interest to Australian security agencies.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accused Dastyari of a “failure of loyalty” to Australia and...

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Banking royal commission will expose the real cost of bad behaviour

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Section Editor: Business + Economy

Australia’s federal government has announced a royal commission into the financial services sector, following a letter from the big four bank heads supporting the move.

The commission will run for 12 months, delivering a final report in February 2019, at an estimated cost of A$75 million. It will explore not only banking but also the wealth...

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  1. Supporting part-time and online learners is key to reducing university dropout rates
  2. Tourists are stuck at the airport, but erupting Mt Agung has a deeper significance for the Balinese
  3. Queensland Liberals and Nationals have long had an uneasy cohabitation, and now should consider divorce
  4. How school has been used to control sovereignty and self-determination for Indigenous peoples
  5. Permission to laugh? Humour without risk of danger and offence would be an emaciated thing
  6. Blind in the mind: why some people can't see pictures in their imagination
  7. Sustainable re-use and recycling work for heritage buildings and places too
  8. Governments haven't always shirked responsibility for our low wages
  9. World-first continental acoustic observatory will listen to the sounds of Australia
  10. Labor's dark vision would bring $164 billion tax hit over decade: Morrison
  11. Government questions whether Dastyari fit to be a senator, in new row over Chinese donor
  12. How we found 112 'recovery reefs' dotted through the Great Barrier Reef
  13. Henry Reynolds: Triple J did the right thing, we need a new Australia Day
  14. Marriage bill clears Senate – now for the lower house
  15. Want to better understand Victoria's assisted dying laws? These five articles will help
  16. How 'brand you' came to be
  17. Withdrawing funding for hospitals' mistakes probably won't lead to better patient care
  18. Don Burke story reveals the pernicious culture of men protecting each other in the media
  19. The 2017 ARIA Awards are still off-key when it comes to gender
  20. Comic explainer: what is lone-actor terrorism?
  21. Why Victoria should rethink the abolition of defensive homicide
  22. Three charts on: poorer Australians bearing the brunt of rising housing costs
  23. What goes on inside a medically supervised injection facility?
  24. Indigenous cultural appropriation: what not to do
  25. Three new reports add clarity to Australia's space sector, a 'crowded and valuable high ground'
  26. Curious Kids: How do x-rays see inside you?
  27. Want to solve our STEM skills problem? Bring in the professionals
  28. A fresh start for climate change mitigation in New Zealand
  29. Explainer: why we shouldn't be so quick to trust energy modelling
  30. Heritage building preservation vs sustainability? Conflict isn't inevitable
  31. Here's how to keep up with the latest on Mt Agung, the Bali volcano
  32. Turnbull talks with rebel National on banks
  33. Australia's record on racial equality under the microscope
  34. The Queensland election outcome is a death knell for Adani's coal mine
  35. Starting next year, universities have to prove their research has real-world impact
  36. All hail new weather radar technology, which can spot hailstones lurking in thunderstorms
  37. In Bangarra's Ones Country, new voices show the many faces of Indigenous Australia
  38. No Don Burke, there is no link between autism and harassing behaviour
  39. Labor is right to block 'religious freedom' amendments to protect same-sex marriage bill
  40. Classifying 'national types of beauty': from cigarette cards to Miss Universe
  41. Low-income earners are more likely to die early from preventable diseases
  42. The new ticketing technology that may make scalping a thing of the past
  43. Universities are failing their students through poor feedback practices
  44. The economics of ridiculously expensive art
  45. 'I am not buying things': why some people see 'dumpster diving' as the ethical way to eat
  46. How Filipino artists are responding to President Duterte and the 'War on Drugs'
  47. Australian cities and their metropolitan plans still seem to be parallel universes
  48. Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe
  49. Turnbull backed against the wall by rebel Nationals on bank inquiry
  50. We don't need to change how we subsidise 'breakthrough' cancer treatments

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