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Sustainable shopping: with the right tools, you can find an eco-friendly car

  • Written by Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
imageWhen we look at the latest car models we want fast cars, all-terrain cars or cars to fit the whole family. What about an environmentally friendly car?REUTERS/Toby Melville

Shopping can be confusing at the best of times, and trying to find environmentally friendly options makes it even more difficult. Welcome to the second instalment of our Sustainab...

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Banks may squeal about new tax but they are outgunned

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageScott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull have landed themselves a fight with the banks.AAP/Lukas Coch

Paradoxically, the budget item currently generating the most heat is one that instantly won bipartisan support.

The big banks are livid at the new tax on them, designed to raise more than $6 billion over the budget period in the cause of “budget...

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Politics podcast: Mathias Cormann and Anna Bligh on the new bank tax

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Despite the hefty tax imposts in Tuesday’s budget, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann still insists the fiscal problem was a spending rather than a revenue one.

Cornman says the problem was clearly “on the spending side” but while the government had made significant progress it couldn’t get all the savings measures...

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Senate inquiry told zero tax or royalties paid on Australia's biggest new gas projects

  • Written by Michael West, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

This week’s budget papers show the government spending A$33 billion on education this year, nearly the same amount that Australia’s five new offshore gas fields will make in sales each year when they are running at full capacity.

Unless prices spike higher, however, these five monster projects may never pay a cent in royalties or...

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  1. 'Short-sighted' budget means universities can't deliver their full economic benefit
  2. Budget bank levy: too big to fail, not too big to take a hit
  3. From breaking glass to chest bursting, the scientists' review of Alien: Covenant
  4. Australian media at a crossroads amid threats to diversity and survival
  5. Terror, Muslims, and a culture of fear: challenging the media messages
  6. Is this the budget that forgot renters?
  7. Explainer: what is cancer radiotherapy and why do we need proton beam therapy?
  8. Bond aggregator helps build a more virtuous circle of housing investment
  9. Evidence of ancient life in hot springs on Earth could point to fossil life on Mars
  10. Have the arts come out of the cold or is it another sleight of hand?
  11. Curious Kids: What plants could grow in the Goldilocks zone of space?
  12. Decoding the music masterpieces: Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor
  13. To get the 'good debt' tick, infrastructure needs to be fit for the future
  14. Prescribing generic drugs will reduce patient confusion and medication errors
  15. Budget 2017: Medicare levy rise finances NDIS and banks hit for budget repair
  16. Budget 2017: government goes hard on gas and hydro in bid for energy security
  17. Budget's 'good debt' conversion underpins $70b-plus infrastructure program: experts respond
  18. Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond
  19. Federal Budget 2017: what's changing in education?
  20. Budget 2017-18 brings welfare crackdown and increased defence and security funding: experts respond
  21. Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2017-18 budget speech, annotated by experts
  22. The art of the leak: how the budget is strategically doled out for maximum effect
  23. Budget 2017: Morrison heads off the right with an appeal to altruism over self-interest
  24. Infographic: Budget 2017 at a glance
  25. Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain
  26. Budget 2017: government still tinkering with housing affordability
  27. Budget 2017: bank populism will be paid for by Australians
  28. Winning ugly: the AOC election and the Olympic spirit
  29. Data availability report presents compromised rights for consumers
  30. Life after redundancy: what happens next for journalists when they leave newsrooms
  31. Why Birmingham's performance funding plan won't improve Australian universities
  32. Has the print book trumped digital? Beware of glib conclusions
  33. What's the difference between traumatic fear and moral anger? Trigger warnings won't tell you
  34. Government spending explained in 10 charts; from Howard to Turnbull
  35. Viewpoints: is saturated fat really the killer it's made out to be?
  36. Changes to school funding - your questions answered
  37. Naming suspects in criminal cases opens up ethical minefield
  38. Tax on 'unearned gains' is the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle
  39. Whiteley: a seductive cinematic portrait of a serious artist
  40. Global warming could accelerate towards 1.5℃ if the Pacific gets cranky
  41. Pilot study on why academics should engage with others in the community
  42. Latham to fight for 'western civilisation' from the Liberal Democrats' kennel
  43. Julie Bishop keeps Abdel-Magied on Australian-Arab board
  44. Therapy for life-threatening eating disorders works, so why can't people access it?
  45. Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
  46. TPG bid for Fairfax: what usually happens when private equity meets media?
  47. Discovering Charles Meere: an intriguing, subversive artist
  48. What are 'fasting' diets and do they help you lose weight?
  49. The Conversation chatbot launches in Facebook Messenger
  50. Government out of touch on housing policies ahead of budget: poll

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