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Australia's energy debates need to move beyond political tribalism

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

As public angst over the prospective A$1 billion subsidy to coal magnate Guatam Adani hits fever pitch, a small company is modestly beavering away on another – more worthy – energy project in Far North Queensland.

Genex Power has turned the abandoned Kidston gold mine into a solar farm and pumped-hydro power storage...

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Curious kids: where does money come from?

  • Written by Fabrizio Carmignani, Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
imageThe Conversation/Emil Jeyaratnam, CC BY-ND

This is the first piece in our new Curious Kids series. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! Email your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au

Where does money come from? – Millie,...

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How English-style drizzle killed the Ice Age's giants

  • Written by Alan Cooper, Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide
imageGiant sloths: killed by rainy weather?Kamraman/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Wet weather at the end of the last ice age appears to have helped drive the ecosystems of large grazing animals, such as mammoths and giant sloths, extinct across vast swathes of Eurasia and the Americas, according to our new research.

The study, published in Nature Ecology...

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Mandatory minimum sentences and populist criminal justice policy do not work – here's why

  • Written by Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
imageSuccessive reviews and inquiries have revealed that mandatory sentences fail to achieve their stated aims.Shutterstock

The Victorian Liberal Party recently announced that, if elected in November 2018, it would introduce mandatory minimum sentences for repeat violent offenders as part of its crackdown on crime.

Heralded as a “two-strike”...

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  2. Decoding the music masterpieces: Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor
  3. Inflight Wi-Fi highlights challenges of satellite broadband delivery on land and in the sky
  4. Social impact investment can help retirees get the housing and care they need
  5. As live streaming murder becomes the new normal online, can social media be saved?
  6. Turnbull talks tough on foreign workers – deer farmers and historians off welcome list
  7. Exquisite prose, with rare and subtle insight
  8. Australian government axes 457 work visa: experts react
  9. NDIS hiccups are expected, as with any large-scale social reform
  10. Australia's back in the satellite business with a new launch
  11. Harrison Young appointed chairman of The Conversation
  12. Why it's so offensive when we call people animals
  13. How do we learn to read?
  14. Where the old things are: Australia's most ancient trees
  15. Australian politics explainer: the Labor Party split
  16. The off-topic Conversation #120
  17. Unflinching, luminous, and moving, the Stella shortlist will get under your skin
  18. Budget explainer: has there been a blowout in social security and welfare spending?
  19. Refugees need support to continue their careers – here's how it can be done
  20. The 'clean coal' row shouldn't distract us from using carbon capture for other industries
  21. What science says about getting the most out of your tea
  22. Degrees of separation: companies shed degree requirements to promote merit over qualifications
  23. Facts are not always more important than opinions: here's why
  24. When it comes to housing affordability debates, everything old is new again
  25. Science or snake oil: do meds like Remifemin ease hot flushes and night sweats in menopausal women?
  26. Australian politics explainer: how women gained the right to vote
  27. Death metal: how nickel played a role in the world's worst mass extinction
  28. What can the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals do for cities?
  29. Good Friday essay: Passion plays and the ethics of spectacular violence
  30. How to reclaim Easter from the chocolate companies
  31. How religion rises – and falls – in modern Australia
  32. VPNs become even more important as ISPs start collecting customer metadata
  33. Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison finds himself in a week of pain
  34. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on Australian self-reliance
  35. Expert panel: ATO data shows inequality is in everything from super to the property market
  36. Here's how superannuation is already financing homes
  37. 13 Reasons Why and Ageing Out of Pop Culture
  38. Don't worry, the odds of catching legionnaires' disease in Melbourne are pretty slim
  39. Millions of rotting fish: turtles and crays can save us from Carpageddon
  40. Syria is a mess, but the solution is complicated too
  41. Explainer: the war in Syria and the possibility of removing Assad
  42. When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are 'bullshit'
  43. Why does the Carmichael coal mine need to use so much water?
  44. Explainer: why some acts are classified as terrorism but others aren't
  45. What is 'success' in drug rehab? Programs need more than just anecdotes to prove they work
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