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Vital Signs: RBA rates decision stuck between jobs growth and household debt

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: Employment rising, consumer spending growing but wages are still stuck. Therein lies the problem for...

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Noise from offshore oil and gas surveys can affect whales up to 3km away

  • Written by: Rebecca Dunlop, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, The University of Queensland
imageMigrating humpback whales avoid loud, nearby sounds.BRAHSS, Author provided

Air guns used for marine oil and gas exploration are loud enough to affect humpback whales up to 3km away, potentially affecting their migration patterns, according to our new research.

Whales’ communication depends on loud sounds, which can travel very efficiently...

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Grattan on Friday: Malcolm Turnbull's government has finally defied fiction

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageWith the eligibility of the Nationals leadership under question Malcolm Turnbull has had a nightmarish week.Mick Tsikas/AAP

In a week belonging more appropriately to Shaun Micallef comedy than parliamentary reality, it’s arguable Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt wasn’t the most extraordinary thing that happened in Canberra.

Hanson has...

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New shock rocks government: Nationals' deputy Fiona Nash a dual British citizen

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageFiona Nash made a statement to the Senate just before it rose on Thursday night for a fornight's break.Lukas Coch/AAP

The government has been hit with another bombshell in the citizenship crisis, with the deputy leader of the Nationals, Fiona Nash, found to have dual British nationality.

Nash made a statement to the Senate just before it rose on...

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  2. Father and son: Saturn and Jupiter in the northern sky
  3. Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on Airbnb and its impact on cities
  4. What businesses can do to stamp out slavery in their supply chains
  5. We all need to forget, even robots
  6. From Charlottesville to Nazi Germany, sometimes monuments have to fall
  7. Of renewables, Robocops and risky business
  8. High Court challenge to offshore immigration detention power fails
  9. Five commonly over-diagnosed conditions and what we can do about them
  10. Mythbusting Ancient Rome -- did all roads actually lead there?
  11. Grooming the globe: denying fairness, complexity and humanity
  12. Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity
  13. When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect
  14. Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see
  15. Australia emits mercury at double the global average
  16. When artists get involved in research, science benefits
  17. A new approach to culture
  18. Health Check: do joint and muscle aches get worse in the cold?
  19. The Buy Queensland strategy breaks international trade deals
  20. Is The Bachelor anti-feminist, or is conventional heterosexual romance the real problem?
  21. Melbourne shows up Sydney in funding the most disadvantaged suburbs
  22. Bored reading science? Let's change how scientists write
  23. Curious Kids: Why don't the planets closest to the Sun melt or burn up?
  24. To the High Court we go: six MPs under clouds in decisions that could undermine the government
  25. Here's how many people get infections in Australian hospitals every year
  26. The hollow promise of construction-led jobs and growth
  27. For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research
  28. Costly signals needed to deliver inconvenient truth
  29. Climate change is a financial risk, according to a lawsuit against the CBA
  30. ABC targeted in government deal with Pauline Hanson
  31. No, it wasn't a conspiracy that caused Barnaby's problem – it was himself
  32. Cyberspace aggression adds to North Korea's threat to global security
  33. A fragmented streaming video market is good for everyone but the consumer
  34. No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems
  35. On brand: how Australia's apartment frenzy echoes the 1870s cattle boom
  36. Royal commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it's time to act
  37. Book review: The New Puberty
  38. What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years
  39. What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin
  40. What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  41. The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime
  42. The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour
  43. The science of being 'nice': how politeness is different from compassion
  44. Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
  45. 'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use
  46. New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil
  47. Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
  48. Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
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