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Climate change is a financial risk, according to a lawsuit against the CBA

  • Written by: Anita Foerster, Senior Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been in the headlines lately for all the wrong reasons. Beyond money-laundering allegations and the announcement that CEO Ian Narev will retire early, the CBA is now also being sued in the Australian Federal Court for misleading shareholders over the risks climate change poses to their business interests.

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ABC targeted in government deal with Pauline Hanson

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imagePauline Hanson's support for media reforms requires increased scruntiny of public broadcasters.Lukas Coch/AAP

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has won major measures to increase scrutiny of the ABC and potentially clip its wings, in exchange for backing the government’s media deregulation measures.

The government has undertaken to hold an...

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No, it wasn't a conspiracy that caused Barnaby's problem – it was himself

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageBarnaby Joyce has now renounced his New Zealand citizenship but his future is yet to be determined.Mick Tsikas/AAP

Ok Let’s get one point straight. The crisis around Barnaby Joyce has been caused by one simple oversight by one person. Joyce was careless in not properly checking whether he complied with the citizenship requirement of the...

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Cyberspace aggression adds to North Korea's threat to global security

  • Written by: Joe Burton, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
imagePeople participate in a Pyongyang mass rally held at Kim Il-sung Square.KCNA/Reuters, CC BY-ND

Claims that North Korea could fire nuclear weapons at the continental US present a serious threat to global security. But its hostile activities don’t end there. North Korea has also become an aggressive cyber power, regularly using cyber attacks to...

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  2. No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems
  3. On brand: how Australia's apartment frenzy echoes the 1870s cattle boom
  4. Royal commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it's time to act
  5. Book review: The New Puberty
  6. What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years
  7. What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin
  8. What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  9. The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime
  10. The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour
  11. The science of being 'nice': how politeness is different from compassion
  12. Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
  13. 'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use
  14. New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil
  15. Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
  16. Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
  17. Poo transplants beyond the yuck factor: what works, what doesn't and what we still don't know
  18. FactCheck Q A: is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?
  19. The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares
  20. Post-lobstergate swings to Labor in 4 Vic marginal seats
  21. High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander
  22. A short history of the office
  23. Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it
  24. How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote
  25. Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why
  26. Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth
  27. Dancing brittle stars tell an ancient tale of life and death in brutal seas
  28. The bad buildings scream – lessons from Don Dale and other failed institutions
  29. Tweet streams: how social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health
  30. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
  31. Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment
  32. Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars
  33. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  34. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  35. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  36. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  37. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  38. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism
  39. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  40. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  41. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  42. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  43. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  44. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  45. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  46. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  47. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  48. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  49. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  50. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region

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