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Push for longer hours makes headlines, but more Australians want to work less

  • Written by Mark Wooden, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
imageDespite the prominence given to underemployment, 'overemployment' is more pervasive in Australia.AAP/Julian Smith

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) abandoned plans requiring its staff to work 37.5 hours per week following an employee backlash. This would have been an increase of 45 minutes per week, or nine minutes per day, over what’s...

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Seven Earth-sized planets discovered orbiting a nearby star

  • Written by Jonti Horner, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
imageAn artist's concept of what it could look like on the surface of one of the exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1. NASA/JPL-Caltech

An international team of astronomers has found that a nearby star is accompanied by a swarm of at least seven small, rocky worlds.

One of the eyecatching claims in the work, published today in Nature, is that in the appropriate...

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Australia’s 2016 environment scorecard: rains return but in some cases too late

  • Written by Albert Van Dijk, Professor of Water Science and Management, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
imageGreen shoots: a mangrove in Cairns enjoys the wet. Not all of Australia was so lucky.Guillaume Blanchard/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

After several dry years, vegetation across much of Australia received much-needed rains in 2016. But this broad pattern of improvement belies some major environmental damage in parts of the country – particularly...

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Shorten goes on front foot over renewables 50% 'target'

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

Australia could be the “energy capital of Asia” but instead it is going backwards, Bill Shorten will say in a speech on Thursday, vigorously defending Labor’s target of 50% of Australia’s electricity coming from renewables by 2030.

As the government floats the prospect of help for cleaner-coal power stations and attacks...

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More Articles ...

  1. Fact or fiction – is sugar addictive?
  2. New physics syllabus raises the bar, but how will schools clear it?
  3. No mandatory novels or poetry – what you need to know about the new HSC English curriculum
  4. Dutton blows Turnbull's credibility – for now and perhaps for later
  5. Yes, we can do on-the-spot drug testing quickly and safely
  6. How South Australia can function reliably while moving to 100% renewable power
  7. Business students willing to sacrifice future salary for good corporate social responsibility: study
  8. City streets become a living lab that could transform your daily travel
  9. Intrigue, lucky charms and painful longing: the art of Helen Britton
  10. Life imprisonment raises questions about proportionality, equity and human dignity
  11. Essendon air crash: what will the investigators be looking for?
  12. Playing politics with renewables: how the right is losing its way
  13. Trump, déjà un mois, et ce n’est que le début…
  14. How predictable are the Oscars? More than you might think
  15. Netanyahu's visit prompts Australia to rethink its relationship with Israel
  16. No animal required, but would people eat artificial meat?
  17. Tax and dividend: how conservatives can grow to love carbon pricing
  18. What's most likely to kill you? Measuring how deadly our daily activities are
  19. Why algorithms won't necessarily lead to utopian workplaces
  20. Government losing the argument on energy, according to poll
  21. Trump and the cycle of dehumanisation
  22. How we kept disease-spreading Asian Tiger mozzies away from the Australian mainland
  23. Trainspotting on stage brings a disturbing reality vividly to life
  24. Mount Isa contamination 'within guidelines' but residents told to clean their homes
  25. There are some difficult questions to ask Netanyahu, but boycotting his visit won't answer them
  26. APRA fiddles on bank risk while Rome burns
  27. Which supplements work? New labels may help separate the wheat from the chaff
  28. Labor's climate policy could remove the need for renewable energy targets
  29. Bystanders often don't intervene in sexual harassment – but should they?
  30. PewDiePie, new media stars and the court of public opinion
  31. WestConnex audit offers another $17b lesson in how not to fund infrastructure
  32. Morrison's tanty over bankers hiring Anna Bligh was arrogant and absurd
  33. Australia's march towards corporatocracy
  34. The anatomy of an energy crisis – a pictorial guide, Part 2
  35. Explainer: trickle-down economics
  36. FactCheck Q A: was it four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago?
  37. Response from a spokesman for Jacqui Lambie for a FactCheck on climate change
  38. Health Check: are naps good for us?
  39. Diminishing city: hope, despair and Whyalla
  40. Emotional fallout: Little Emperors brings China's one-child policy to the stage
  41. Imaging study confirms differences in ADHD brains
  42. Should Victoria introduce a swifter model of sentencing family violence offenders?
  43. Why small business tax cuts aren't likely to boost 'jobs and growth'
  44. Australia needs to reboot affordable housing funding, not scrap it
  45. New study shows more time walking means less time in hospital
  46. The 20th century saw a 23-fold increase in natural resources used for building
  47. Wary of human-animal hybrids? It's probably just your own moral superiority
  48. Guide to the classics: Alice Pung on Robin Klein's The Sky in Silver Lace
  49. Women also sexually abuse children, but their reasons often differ from men's
  50. US president shoots the messengers. SAD!

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