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Vital Signs: regulators fiddle while house prices sizzle

  • 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: new information points to a major house prices problem for regulators and governments.


It is ironic...

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The stampede of wind farm complaints that never happened

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageWhy were so few complaints about wind farms investigated further? And who made these complaints anyway?from www.shutterstock.com

National Wind Farm Commissioner, Andrew Dyer, has just released his much anticipated first annual report.

In its first year of operation until the end of 2016, the National Wind Farm Commissioner says his office received:

  • 46...

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Why anyone can steal our articles. Yes, really.

  • Written by Debbie Dickinson, Head of audience engagement, The Conversation

We believe quality information should be accessible to all and that’s why we publish under a Creative Commons license, which allows anyone, anywhere to republish our articles.

This short video explains why we publish under Creative Commons, and how our republishing works.

Please feel free to share, and let us know your thoughts in the...

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Northern NSW is no stranger to floods, but this one was different

  • Written by Joelle Gergis, ARC DECRA Climate Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

The devastating flood damage wreaked by Tropical Cyclone Debbie has left many residents in northern New South Wales facing an enormous cleanup that could take months.

Any Lismore local will tell you that flooding is a fact of life in the Northern Rivers. In the floods of 1954 and 1974, the Wilsons River rose to a record 12.17 metres. This time...

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  1. Why I use emoji in research and teaching
  2. Friday essay: the remarkable yidaki (and no, it's not a 'didge')
  3. Australian politics explainer: the writing of our Constitution
  4. Taking Bitcoin to the stockmarket won't do much for its risky image
  5. Making sense of the global infrastructure turn
  6. Explainer: what is rhabdomyolysis and what's its connection to Crossfit?
  7. Grattan on Friday: Liberals headhunt for a miracle worker
  8. Apple Pay may have won the battle but it may not win the war
  9. Driverless cars might be safer but they'll still keep the courts busy
  10. The Great Barrier Reef's safety net is becoming more complex but less effective
  11. Politics podcast: Matthew Sussex on Russia's long game
  12. How ethical is sexual assault research?
  13. Why suburban tensions and inequality will drive infrastructure innovation
  14. 'Record seizure' headlines mark another false step in misguided war on drugs
  15. #ThanksforTyping: the women behind famous male writers
  16. Explainer: what is the blood-brain barrier and how can we overcome it?
  17. Can a four-year-old be sexist?
  18. Love connection: breakthrough fights crown-of-thorns starfish with pheromones
  19. Young people's voices are all but invisible in the Don Dale royal commission's interim report
  20. Terrorist or hipster – what does a beard mean?
  21. Stumbling into the future: living with the legacy of the great infrastructure sell-off
  22. Diversity and inclusion are the heroes in Overwatch, a runaway commercial gaming success
  23. Beyond the gloomy headlines, this global index suggests manufacturing is in good shape
  24. People who shoot risk unhealthy levels of lead exposure
  25. Liberal director Tony Nutt quits
  26. Climate-driven species on the move are changing (almost) everything
  27. Labor gains in Newspoll to move to 53-47 lead
  28. ATNIX: Debbie misses Twitter
  29. Squeezed by gravity: how tides affect the groundwater under our feet
  30. Explainer: why the High Court ruled Bob Day's election to the Senate invalid
  31. There are many ways to treat jellyfish stings – peeing on them isn't one
  32. Print your own masterpieces and digital pens -- the brave new world of the museum
  33. Tropical Cyclone Debbie has blown a hole in the winter vegetable supply
  34. How one family used pokies and politics to extract a fortune from Tasmanians
  35. How do we restore the public's faith in transport planning?
  36. Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness
  37. Whole body vibration: a genuine therapy or just another 'weight loss' fad?
  38. Gogglebox and what it tells us about English in Australia
  39. How to split the good from the bad in online reviews and ratings
  40. Turnbull delays London appointment
  41. If you haven't got the numbers, Scott, could you please just get them?
  42. Outreach - why reach out?
  43. 8 diet myths - busted!
  44. A Rock Roll Writers Festival brings a much-needed spark to Australia's literary scene
  45. Stargazing citizens and scientists share the hunger to find Planet 9
  46. Turkey on the verge of democide as referendum looms
  47. Governments are trapped in a vicious cycle of housing policies and prices
  48. Weighing the risks and benefits of CT scans in childhood
  49. Separation and single parenting: the tribulations of Henry Lawson's wife
  50. Ice age art and 'jewellery' found in an Indonesian cave reveal an ancient symbolic culture

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