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Tropical Cyclone Debbie has blown a hole in the winter vegetable supply

  • Written by Ian Sinclair, PhD Candidate. Contested Landscapes – Managing the Tensions between Land Use Planning in Strategic Agricultural Regions on Australia’s Eastern Seaboard., University of Sydney

Cyclone Debbie, which lashed the Queensland coast a week ago, has hit farmers hard in the area around Bowen – a crucial supplier of vegetables to Sydney, Melbourne and much of eastern Australia.

With the Queensland Farmers’ Federation estimating the damage at more than A$100 million and winter crop losses at 20%, the event looks set to...

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How one family used pokies and politics to extract a fortune from Tasmanians

  • Written by Francis Markham, PhD Candidate, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
imageA new book tells a detailed story of how policy decisions about pokies are actually made.AAP/Mick Tsikas

James Boyce’s new book Losing Streak charts the story of how Federal Hotels gained an exclusive licence to operate all of Tasmania’s 3,500 poker machines for free. The company’s owners, the Farrell family, amassed a fortune of...

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How do we restore the public's faith in transport planning?

  • Written by Crystal Legacy, Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow and Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
imagePoliticised projects that steamroll proper process are giving transport planning a bad name.www.shutterstock.com

This is the third 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.

Opposition...

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Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness

  • Written by Stephen Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Technology Sydney
imageStatistics and probability can sometimes yield mind bending results.Shutterstock

Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to interpreting those patterns. In this series we look at some of the common mistakes we make and how to avoid them when thinking about...

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  1. Whole body vibration: a genuine therapy or just another 'weight loss' fad?
  2. Gogglebox and what it tells us about English in Australia
  3. How to split the good from the bad in online reviews and ratings
  4. Turnbull delays London appointment
  5. If you haven't got the numbers, Scott, could you please just get them?
  6. Outreach - why reach out?
  7. 8 diet myths - busted!
  8. A Rock Roll Writers Festival brings a much-needed spark to Australia's literary scene
  9. Stargazing citizens and scientists share the hunger to find Planet 9
  10. Turkey on the verge of democide as referendum looms
  11. Governments are trapped in a vicious cycle of housing policies and prices
  12. Weighing the risks and benefits of CT scans in childhood
  13. Separation and single parenting: the tribulations of Henry Lawson's wife
  14. Ice age art and 'jewellery' found in an Indonesian cave reveal an ancient symbolic culture
  15. Why do schools want all students to look the same?
  16. Health-care spending has only a modest effect on lifespan and premature death
  17. Alt-unionism: why businesses may be better with the devil they know
  18. Banksy's Bethlehem hotel is an example of how tourism can be political
  19. How do we stop volunteer emergency service workers quitting?
  20. Learning to live with a nuclear North Korea?
  21. Three charts on: the incredible shrinking renewable energy job market
  22. The government's company tax cut win a triumph of politics over economics
  23. From Smart Cities 1.0 to 2.0: it's not (only) about the tech
  24. Health Check: what are 'coffee naps' and can they help you power through the day?
  25. Tackling the kraken: unique dolphin strategy delivers dangerous octopus for dinner
  26. The tragedy of Mosul: battle against Islamic State is leading to all-too-familiar consequences
  27. The off-topic Conversation #119
  28. Evolving Agile practices to support a distributed team
  29. What economics has to say about housing bubbles
  30. What's critical about critical infrastructure?
  31. The periodic table: from its classic design to use in popular culture
  32. Should university funding be tied to student performance?
  33. After 25 years of trying, why aren’t we environmentally sustainable yet?
  34. Explainer: what's cytomegalovirus and why do pregnant women need to know about it?
  35. Guide to the classics: Neil Gaiman's American Gods
  36. Andrew Jaspan resigns as Editor and Executive Director of The Conversation
  37. The False Feminism of Kendrick Lamar's Humble
  38. Successful tips to a positive career change
  39. Follicle challenge: the Ben Cousins saga and reforms to drug testing
  40. Company tax compromise is limited but works for both Turnbull and Xenophon
  41. The Vice President Dines: A Philosophical Dialogue
  42. The APRA bandaid for the housing market is wearing off
  43. Electoral system flaws deny Labor and Greens WA upper house majority
  44. Carrots and pumpkin might reduce your risk of cancer, but beware taking them in pill form
  45. Does bad weather affect student performance in school?
  46. It's ten years since Rudd's 'great moral challenge', and we have failed it
  47. The search to extend lifespan is gaining ground, but can we truly reverse the biology of ageing?
  48. More low-paid work is part of the problem, not the solution
  49. The forgotten 660,000 locked out of home ownership
  50. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the company tax cut

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