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The government is right to fund energy storage: a 100% renewable grid is within reach

  • Written by Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
imageWith the right mix, the grid can go fully renewable for the same cost and reliability as fossil fuels.Pixabay/Wikimedia Commons

In a speech to the National Press Club yesterday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared that the key requirements for Australia’s electricity system are that it should be affordable, reliable, and able to help...

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Sensible reform to finance affordable housing deserves cross-party support

  • Written by Julie Lawson, Honorary Associate Professor, RMIT University

Treasurer Scott Morrison’s visit to cold old London last week in the middle of the Australia summer was time well spent. Morrison made time in his hectic schedule for a lengthy meeting with the UK’s Housing Finance Corporation (THFC) to discuss an affordable housing financial intermediary with its chief executive, Piers Williamson.

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Turnbull's $1.75 million donation is bad news for Australian democracy

  • Written by Yee-Fui Ng, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
imageMalcolm Turnbull's donation of $1.75 million to the Liberal Party is the largest single donation in Australian political history. AAP/Mick Tsikas

After some obfuscation, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has finally revealed that he made a A$1.75 million donation to the Liberal Party in the lead-up to the 2016 federal election. Turnbull said on the...

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Turnbull’s energy game-changer

  • Written by John Hewson, Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School, Australian National University

In his speech this week to the National Press Club, Turnbull initiated a genuine “game-changer” in the debate about power generation in this country. It is instructive to focus explicitly on what he said.

Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal - we have invested $590 million since 2009 in clean coal technology research...

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  1. Do vegetarians live longer? Probably, but not because they're vegetarian
  2. US embassy says refugee deal stands, but Trump casts new doubt in tweet
  3. Finding flow: learning Ruby on the job
  4. Why do we need a phonics test for six-year-olds?
  5. Make housing affordable and cut road congestion all at once? Here's a way
  6. What's the benefit in making human-animal hybrids?
  7. Educating Australia – why our schools aren't improving
  8. Work hour limits need to change for better mental health and gender equality
  9. Hugh Mackay: the state of the nation starts in your street
  10. Fornication, fluids and faeces: the intimate life of the French court
  11. Dietary guidelines don't work. Here's how to fix them
  12. Why we can't spin a silken yarn as strong as a spider can
  13. Turnbull's right: we need cheap, clean and reliable power – here's how
  14. Turnbull finally reveals his Liberal donation was $1.75 million
  15. Turnbull's energy policy vision: heavy on direction, light on action
  16. Sobering health stats in latest Productivity Commission report
  17. Turnbull believes in timely disclosure of donations – just not his
  18. When the drugs don’t work: how we can turn the tide of antimicrobial resistance
  19. Enough with the Doctor Who gender debate – it's time
  20. Interactive: a snapshot of political donations in Australia for 2015-16
  21. Why, only now, are we finding out who the biggest donors in an election year were?
  22. What has Turnbull agreed to do for Trump?
  23. What economists and tax experts think of the company tax cut
  24. What did Galaxy's poll tell us about freedom of speech and 18C? Not what the IPA said it did
  25. It's time to focus on an endgame for tobacco regulation
  26. Listen up: a plan to help scientists get their research heard by decision-makers
  27. Dunstan, Christies and me: growing up in the ‘Athens of the South’
  28. Turnbull will acknowledge people's pain in speech on agenda
  29. The search for an economic solution for South Australia
  30. More than half the world's most important natural sites are under threat: it's time to protect them
  31. Shallow impact: when crackpot conspiracy theories are touted as news, we all lose
  32. Explainer: what is modern monetary theory?
  33. How should we talk about Trump?
  34. Explainer: what are executive orders? And what force do they have in US politics?
  35. Does more mental health treatment and less stigma produce better mental health?
  36. White House promises Trump ban won't affect Australians
  37. The off-topic Conversation #116
  38. Why the media need to tread carefully when reporting research findings
  39. How Australia can spread the benefits of our bulging infrastructure pipeline
  40. FactCheck: What are the facts on Australia's foreign aid spending?
  41. Methodology: finding the numbers on Australia's foreign aid spending over time
  42. Teased and bullied – the challenges of starting school with a stutter
  43. If GPs pass on cost from rebate freeze, poorer, sicker patients will be hardest hit
  44. Australia needs more than the New York Times' view of the world
  45. Celebrity charities just compete with all other charities – so why start one?
  46. The great Australian plays: A Cheery Soul gave us a supreme theatrical monster
  47. We can still keep global warming below 2℃ – but the hard work is about to start
  48. Shorten's three major economic priorities: 'jobs, jobs and jobs'
  49. China: globalisation’s unlikely champion
  50. Full response from Reverend Tim Costello

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