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Australia's electricity market is not agile and innovative enough to keep up

  • Written by Hugh Saddler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University

On the early evening of Wednesday, February 8, electricity supply to some 90,000 households and businesses in South Australia was cut off for up to an hour. Two days later, all electricity consumers in New South Wales were warned the same could happen to them. It didn’t, but apparently only because supply was cut to the Tomago aluminium...

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Friday essay: the female werewolf and her shaggy suffragette sisters

  • Written by Jazmina Cininas, Lecturer in Fine Art, Printmaking, RMIT University

As Melbourne lights up for tomorrow’s White Night Festival, the façade of RMIT’s Storey Hall annex will transform into an illuminated billboard of morphing lupine femmes. The portraits - my original linocuts of female werewolves - might seem curious bedfellows for a Melbourne icon of deconstructivism. However, there is a long...

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Vital Signs: business confidence spikes but uncertainty reigns

  • 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: business confidence spikes, unemployment is flat, and the market gets ready for a US interest rate...

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Grattan on Friday: The 'Omnibus' puts government in a tangle and Xenophon in a jam

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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The trenchant stand that Nick Xenophon – who is usually a compromiser - and his team took this week against the “Omnibus Bill”, which combines child care reform and savings in family and other payments, saw a disconcerted government resort to a risky tactic.

It threatened taxes could have to rise if adequate savings couldn’t...

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  1. The Red Detachment of Women marches forward – but to where?
  2. Politics podcast: Anthony Albanese on Labor's approach to infrastructure
  3. North Korea may not yet have a long-range missile, but its progress is worrying
  4. Help us restore trust in experts
  5. Roe 8 fails the tests of responsible 21st-century infrastructure planning
  6. Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer
  7. Global clean energy scorecard puts Australia 15th in the world
  8. Where art meets industry: protecting the spectacular rock art of the Burrup Peninsula
  9. Jakarta governor's race a litmus test for Indonesia
  10. What will my child's life be like? Newly identified genes may help diagnose autism and disability
  11. How changing times made Australia's political leaders more disposable
  12. Human genome editing report strikes the right balance between risks and benefits
  13. Dream homes: Architecture and popular imagination
  14. Full response from Mark McGowan on methamphetamine use in Western Australia
  15. Climate change doubled the likelihood of the New South Wales heatwave
  16. Something smells off: Kate Grenville's case against fragrance
  17. Sky News is not yet Fox News, but it has the good, the bad and the uglies
  18. Why sitting is not the 'new smoking'
  19. After all the talk, what is the Turnbull government actually doing for small business?
  20. Perceptions of genetically modified food are informed by more than just science
  21. Politics podcast: Barnaby Joyce on a year at the top
  22. Clementine Ford and Lindy West talk Twitter and life on and off the Internet
  23. How the warming world could turn many plants and animals into climate refugees
  24. Before pregnancy even starts, healthy weight in mums and dads lowers obesity risk in children
  25. Regulations needed for litigation funders who can't pay out when cases fail
  26. Closing the Gap is failing and needs a radical overhaul
  27. States drag feet on affordable housing, with Victoria the worst
  28. That Lump of Coal
  29. FactCheck: is Australia on track to have the oldest pension age in the developed world?
  30. How to cut through when talking to anti-vaxxers and anti-fluoriders
  31. Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones
  32. Moving on from home ownership for 'Generation Rent'
  33. Understanding populism: how leaders can better sell economic reform
  34. The Great Australian Plays: The Front Room Boys and New Wave theatre
  35. End of the road? Why it might be time to ditch your car
  36. How far they'll go: Moana shows the power of Polynesian celestial navigation
  37. Molecules do not have colour!
  38. Morrison pushed NDIS 'hypothecation' announcement despite caution about timing from Turnbull's office
  39. 6 things young men should know about food, nutrition and getting in shape
  40. FactCheck: it's true – Western Australia has the nation's highest rate of methamphetamine use
  41. Want electricity reform? Start by giving power back to the states
  42. Young women can budget in the short term but struggle with long-term investments: survey
  43. Why the Sydney Opera House is a little overcooked
  44. WA state election: Liberals' deal with One Nation may come back to bite them
  45. The gap of Indigenous disadvantage is being closed too slowly: report
  46. And then there were two: welcome back ABC Fact Check
  47. Basil Hetzel: Australian medical pioneer, and my friend
  48. Six psychiatric concepts that have mutated: for better or worse
  49. Errors in Centrelink's debt recovery system were inevitable, as in all complex systems
  50. Housing affordability problems might not be all bad

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