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Making sense of the global infrastructure turn

  • Written by Jago Dodson, Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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This is the final article in our series Making Cities Work. It considers the problems of providing critical infrastructure and how we might produce the innovations and reforms needed to meet 21st-century needs and challenges.


The global focus on US President Donald Trump has largely been on his inflammatory rhetoric and relative inexperience. A...

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Explainer: what is rhabdomyolysis and what's its connection to Crossfit?

  • Written by Rob Eley, Academic Research Manager, Princess Alexandra Hospital Southside Clinical Unit, The University of Queensland
imageOverworking a muscle can have serious consequences for our health. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Rhabdomyolysis (often abbreviated to “rhabdo”) is a condition that causes our muscles to break down or leak, releasing the muscle cells’ contents into the bloodstream. Those contents contain a protein, myoglobin, which can cause injury...

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Grattan on Friday: Liberals headhunt for a miracle worker

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

It is the dream apparatchik job, but you would need to be brave to want it just now. The Liberal Party is looking for a new federal director, after the resignation of stalwart Tony Nutt.

Optimists might see the opportunity to “reboot” an organisation in need of revitalising. Realists might weigh the risk of being on a bridge of a ship...

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Apple Pay may have won the battle but it may not win the war

  • Written by Steve Worthington, Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) decision to deny some of Australia’s major banks the ability to collectively bargain with Apple and boycott Apple Pay, might have opened a whole new door for digital wallets in Australia.

The banks wanted to bargain with Apple for access to the Near-Field Communication...

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  1. Driverless cars might be safer but they'll still keep the courts busy
  2. The Great Barrier Reef's safety net is becoming more complex but less effective
  3. Politics podcast: Matthew Sussex on Russia's long game
  4. How ethical is sexual assault research?
  5. Why suburban tensions and inequality will drive infrastructure innovation
  6. 'Record seizure' headlines mark another false step in misguided war on drugs
  7. #ThanksforTyping: the women behind famous male writers
  8. Explainer: what is the blood-brain barrier and how can we overcome it?
  9. Can a four-year-old be sexist?
  10. Love connection: breakthrough fights crown-of-thorns starfish with pheromones
  11. Young people's voices are all but invisible in the Don Dale royal commission's interim report
  12. Terrorist or hipster – what does a beard mean?
  13. Stumbling into the future: living with the legacy of the great infrastructure sell-off
  14. Diversity and inclusion are the heroes in Overwatch, a runaway commercial gaming success
  15. Beyond the gloomy headlines, this global index suggests manufacturing is in good shape
  16. People who shoot risk unhealthy levels of lead exposure
  17. Liberal director Tony Nutt quits
  18. Climate-driven species on the move are changing (almost) everything
  19. Labor gains in Newspoll to move to 53-47 lead
  20. ATNIX: Debbie misses Twitter
  21. Squeezed by gravity: how tides affect the groundwater under our feet
  22. Explainer: why the High Court ruled Bob Day's election to the Senate invalid
  23. There are many ways to treat jellyfish stings – peeing on them isn't one
  24. Print your own masterpieces and digital pens -- the brave new world of the museum
  25. Tropical Cyclone Debbie has blown a hole in the winter vegetable supply
  26. How one family used pokies and politics to extract a fortune from Tasmanians
  27. How do we restore the public's faith in transport planning?
  28. Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness
  29. Whole body vibration: a genuine therapy or just another 'weight loss' fad?
  30. Gogglebox and what it tells us about English in Australia
  31. How to split the good from the bad in online reviews and ratings
  32. Turnbull delays London appointment
  33. If you haven't got the numbers, Scott, could you please just get them?
  34. Outreach - why reach out?
  35. 8 diet myths - busted!
  36. A Rock Roll Writers Festival brings a much-needed spark to Australia's literary scene
  37. Stargazing citizens and scientists share the hunger to find Planet 9
  38. Turkey on the verge of democide as referendum looms
  39. Governments are trapped in a vicious cycle of housing policies and prices
  40. Weighing the risks and benefits of CT scans in childhood
  41. Separation and single parenting: the tribulations of Henry Lawson's wife
  42. Ice age art and 'jewellery' found in an Indonesian cave reveal an ancient symbolic culture
  43. Why do schools want all students to look the same?
  44. Health-care spending has only a modest effect on lifespan and premature death
  45. Alt-unionism: why businesses may be better with the devil they know
  46. Banksy's Bethlehem hotel is an example of how tourism can be political
  47. How do we stop volunteer emergency service workers quitting?
  48. Learning to live with a nuclear North Korea?
  49. Three charts on: the incredible shrinking renewable energy job market
  50. The government's company tax cut win a triumph of politics over economics

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