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US-China ratification of Paris Agreement ramps up the pressure on Australia

  • Written by: Peter Christoff, Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne

When President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping announced their countries’ ratification of the Paris climate agreement ahead of last weekend’s G20 meeting in Hangzhou, they boosted its chances of coming into force by the end of this year, some 12 months after the deal was brokered last December.

To enter into force, the Paris...

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Can, or should, we save ARENA?

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

Once again the essential development of the renewable energy sector has been stymied by short-term, opportunistic politics.

Included in the Turnbull government’s “omnibus” savings bill is a A$1.3 billion cut in the funding of ARENA, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, a cut, coming on the heels of a couple of previous cuts,...

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Brazil ousting demonstrates the new coup rocking Latin America

  • Written by: Antonio Castillo, Director, Centre for Communication, Politics and Culture, RMIT University
imageDilma Rousseff was last week ousted as Brazil's president.Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino

In post-Olympic Brazil last week, Dilma Rousseff’s presidency came to a forced end. It was also the end of 13 years of radical and progressive politics from the left-wing Workers’ Party. There’s a lot to be learnt from the parliamentary coup, which...

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Health Check: is it bad to regularly sleep wearing earplugs?

  • Written by: Dominic Peter Power, Honorary, Audiology and Speech Pathology, University of Melbourne
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“Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear” is something we’ve been wisely cautioned against at some stage or another. But more of us are ignoring this advice.

We use in-the-ear-headphones to listen to music, car keys and hair pins to scratch that particularly unpleasant itch, and hearing aids to enable better...

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  2. If the TPP dies, Australia has other game changing trade options
  3. Paranoid politics: how does Donald Trump get away with it?
  4. Habitat III: the biggest conference you’ve probably never heard of
  5. New Grattan research shows what is at stake in the superannuation debate
  6. Vital Signs: all eyes on the central bankers
  7. Explainer: what's meningococcal meningitis and what are the signs?
  8. Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways – we need to stop using unproven, harmful methods
  9. The Climate Change Authority report: a dissenting view
  10. Careful surveillance and pet wearables: at home with animals
  11. Why old theories on Indigenous counting just won't go away
  12. Will airlines ban Samsung phones after their recall for exploding batteries?
  13. Liberal Party 'internals' have a bad attack of acid stomach
  14. Victorian ReachTEL: Labor leads, but Andrews damaged by CFA dispute
  15. Boyer Lectures: Episode 1 – Health inequalities and the causes of the causes
  16. Turnbull flays colleagues after government's humiliation
  17. Food for thought: feeding our growing population with flies
  18. Creatine: what is it and should we supplement our diets with it?
  19. A Chinese company gave $3.6 million to Labor while bidding for government work – and it's totally legal
  20. Graf all you want, but don't you dare be poor!
  21. It's time to speak up about noise pollution in the oceans
  22. ACCC unlikely to secure compensation for Volkswagen customers
  23. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the shambles in the lower house
  24. Explainer: what treatment do young children receive for gender dysphoria and is it irreversible?
  25. Australian small businesses could be stretched by changes to commercial credit cards
  26. ACCC takes VW to court -- but will it help consumers?
  27. Questioning the 'miracles' of Saint Teresa
  28. Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?
  29. Direct Action not as motivating as carbon tax say some of Australia's biggest emitters
  30. Interactive: what powers does ASIO have to question and detain terror suspects?
  31. Explainer: what are drug cryptomarkets?
  32. To raise status of teaching, Australia needs to lift pay and cut teacher numbers
  33. The Climate Change Authority's gamble on political pragmatism
  34. Beneath the surface of tourism in Bali
  35. Friday essay: on listening to new national storytellers
  36. Human trials on Earth are the key to how we will survive on Mars
  37. Turnbull government loses discipline and votes in House chaos
  38. Grattan on Friday: Labor's Sam Dastyari suffers Chinese burn
  39. Politics podcast: Eric Abetz on the conservatives in the Liberal Party
  40. China hosts the G20: prepare to be underwhelmed?
  41. Lucy's shattered bones prove our ancestors lived a dangerous life in the trees
  42. Are mosquitoes to blame for the spread of 'flesh-eating' bacteria?
  43. Mobile phone health alarmists bereft of credible arguments
  44. Humans are experimenting with the planet, so let's make sure we learn along the way
  45. Briefcase phones, bracelet radios and other obsolete design gems
  46. What can we learn from children's drawings?
  47. Explainer: what is Section 18C and why do some politicians want it changed?
  48. From the Kama Sutra to Tinder: sex and love in India
  49. Australia needs to follow the US in funding urban rail projects
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