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'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use

  • Written by: Yolande Strengers, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
imageCutting energy use takes more than just the flick of a smartphone.3dfoto/shutterstock.com

“Smart” home control devices promise to do many things, including helping households reduce their energy bills.

Devices such as “connected” lightbulbs and smart plugs let you operate or automate lights and other appliances from your...

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New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageBarnaby Joyce has been revealed to have New Zealand citizenship.Lukas Coch/AAP

We have it from the New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English that Barnaby Joyce is a citizen of his country. We have it from the Australian Constitution that you can’t be a federal MP if you are a dual national.

We have it from Malcolm Turnbull that “the deputy...

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Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia

  • Written by: Jared Mondschein, Research Associate, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney

One of the biggest turnoffs for US investment and workers is also the biggest pet peeve for locals – housing affordability. Our research finds lifestyle factors are what makes Australia stand out from other international destinations.

We combined 13 in-depth case studies of firms with strong ties between the United States and Australia, a...

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Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends

  • Written by: Melissa Castan, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Law Faculty, Monash University
imageIf you're a public servant, just liking a post on Facebook or Twitter could be a problem.Soze Soze/Shutterstock

Australians are often surprised to learn that their Constitution contains no right to free speech. Even the right to political speech, which is constitutionally implied, is increasingly complicated by new online platforms where people can...

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  2. FactCheck Q A: is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?
  3. The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares
  4. Post-lobstergate swings to Labor in 4 Vic marginal seats
  5. High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander
  6. A short history of the office
  7. Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it
  8. How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote
  9. Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why
  10. Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth
  11. Dancing brittle stars tell an ancient tale of life and death in brutal seas
  12. The bad buildings scream – lessons from Don Dale and other failed institutions
  13. Tweet streams: how social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health
  14. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
  15. Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment
  16. Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars
  17. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  18. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  19. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  20. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  21. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  22. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism
  23. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  24. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  25. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  26. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  27. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  28. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  29. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  30. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  31. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  32. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  33. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  34. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  35. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  36. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  37. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
  38. The off-topic Conversation #132
  39. ASEAN's mid-life crisis?
  40. Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago
  41. Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations
  42. The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost
  43. Reward or punishment: finding the best match for your child's personality
  44. What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently
  45. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
  46. Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue
  47. Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint
  48. Prostate cancer testing: has the bubble burst?
  49. How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia
  50. How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation

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