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The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study

  • Written by: Cathy Foley, Deputy Director and Science Director Manfacturing Flagship CSIRO, CSIRO

Despite the well publicised closure of some manufacturing sectors in Australia, manufacturing isn’t dying. Instead, like industry around the world, it’s undergoing a period of significant change as new, disruptive technologies and economic realities take hold and new markets emerge.

There is a role for the manufacturing sector in...

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More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?

  • Written by: Harry Scheule, Associate Professor, Finance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
imageIt's hard to calculate the risk from rising mortgage delinquencies.Shutterstock.com

The number of Australians who are 30 days behind in their mortgage payments is at the highest level in three years, according to ratings agency Moody’s. It projects this will keep rising.

The question is, how worried should we be?

The increase in mortgage...

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The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health

  • Written by: Rebecca Lindberg, Research Coordinator, Victoria University
imageThere should be a tax on sugary drinks and people need assistance to quit.from www.shutterstock.com.au

In Australia, one in every two people has a chronic disease. These diseases, such as cancer, mental illness and heart disease, reduce quality of life and can lead to premature death. Younger generations are increasingly at risk.

Crucially, one-third...

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China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems

  • Written by: Kevin Lo, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
imageChina's latest energy plan would see coal power increase by 200 gigawatts. Coal image from www.shutterstock.com

China recently announced a 20% increase in coal power capacity by 2020. Does the new target contradict its pledge to peak carbon emissions well before 2030 under the Paris Agreement?

China ratified the Paris Agreement in September 2016 and...

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  5. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
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  7. Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
  8. Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway
  9. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  10. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  11. Why we require real names
  12. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
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  15. Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
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  18. Please, Donald Trump, don't send climate science back to the pre-satellite era
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  22. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on One Nation's troubles
  23. The rise and rise of the omniscient ‘I’
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  25. Changes to contract laws could give small farming businesses more control of data and innovation
  26. Reinventing density: bending the rules can help stop urban sprawl
  27. Friday essay: the loss of music
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  30. 2050 climate targets: nations are playing the long game in fighting global warming
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