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The Climate Change Authority report: a dissenting view

  • Written by: Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University
imageThe Climate Change Authority's latest report has divided its membership.Shutterstock.com

As Members of the Climate Change Authority who have participated fully in the Special Review of Australia’s Climate Goals and Policies, we reached the conclusion, after much consideration, that we could not in good conscience lend our names to its report,...

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Careful surveillance and pet wearables: at home with animals

  • Written by: Larissa Hjorth, Professor of Mobile Media and Games, RMIT University
imageAustralia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world and increasingly, we're monitoring our pets' behaviour.Shutterstock

The Williams’ residence in suburban Melbourne is home to three dogs and five humans. Life is often chaotic as each member of the household negotiates for space and attention. It’s one of many...

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Why old theories on Indigenous counting just won't go away

  • Written by: Ray Norris, Professor, School of Computing, Engineering, & Maths, Western Sydney University
imageThe evidence shows counting was beyond more than a handful of numbers for Australia's Indigenous people.Shutterstock/Sam DCruz

My Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and many. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in...

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Will airlines ban Samsung phones after their recall for exploding batteries?

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageAn exploded Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Ariel Gonzalez/YouTube

Samsung’s release of its latest phone, the Galaxy Note 7 has turned into a financial and PR disaster with the halting of sales of the phone and recall of millions of phones that have been sold so far.

The problem has been with batteries on the phones catching fire although...

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  1. Liberal Party 'internals' have a bad attack of acid stomach
  2. Victorian ReachTEL: Labor leads, but Andrews damaged by CFA dispute
  3. Boyer Lectures: Episode 1 – Health inequalities and the causes of the causes
  4. Turnbull flays colleagues after government's humiliation
  5. Food for thought: feeding our growing population with flies
  6. Creatine: what is it and should we supplement our diets with it?
  7. A Chinese company gave $3.6 million to Labor while bidding for government work – and it's totally legal
  8. Graf all you want, but don't you dare be poor!
  9. It's time to speak up about noise pollution in the oceans
  10. ACCC unlikely to secure compensation for Volkswagen customers
  11. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the shambles in the lower house
  12. Explainer: what treatment do young children receive for gender dysphoria and is it irreversible?
  13. Australian small businesses could be stretched by changes to commercial credit cards
  14. ACCC takes VW to court -- but will it help consumers?
  15. Questioning the 'miracles' of Saint Teresa
  16. Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?
  17. Direct Action not as motivating as carbon tax say some of Australia's biggest emitters
  18. Interactive: what powers does ASIO have to question and detain terror suspects?
  19. Explainer: what are drug cryptomarkets?
  20. To raise status of teaching, Australia needs to lift pay and cut teacher numbers
  21. The Climate Change Authority's gamble on political pragmatism
  22. Beneath the surface of tourism in Bali
  23. Friday essay: on listening to new national storytellers
  24. Human trials on Earth are the key to how we will survive on Mars
  25. Turnbull government loses discipline and votes in House chaos
  26. Grattan on Friday: Labor's Sam Dastyari suffers Chinese burn
  27. Politics podcast: Eric Abetz on the conservatives in the Liberal Party
  28. China hosts the G20: prepare to be underwhelmed?
  29. Lucy's shattered bones prove our ancestors lived a dangerous life in the trees
  30. Are mosquitoes to blame for the spread of 'flesh-eating' bacteria?
  31. Mobile phone health alarmists bereft of credible arguments
  32. Humans are experimenting with the planet, so let's make sure we learn along the way
  33. Briefcase phones, bracelet radios and other obsolete design gems
  34. What can we learn from children's drawings?
  35. Explainer: what is Section 18C and why do some politicians want it changed?
  36. From the Kama Sutra to Tinder: sex and love in India
  37. Australia needs to follow the US in funding urban rail projects
  38. Better regulation of all political finance would help control foreign donations
  39. ADF set to hit more Islamic State targets under legal change
  40. Time for Australia to provide preschool education for all three year olds?
  41. Between perceptions and realities of Australian-Indonesian attitudes: a view from Indonesia
  42. A guide for how to choose therapy for a child with autism
  43. Social determinants – how class and wealth affect our health
  44. Want to improve the nation's health? Start by reducing inequalities and improving living conditions
  45. Focusing on tests and invalid assessments is the wrong way to measure teacher quality
  46. Still standing: how an ancient clock tower survived Italy's deadly earthquake
  47. Change Agents: Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee on establishing a national women's football league
  48. If the backlash against globalisation hurts China, it hurts global growth too
  49. Where to next for arts philanthropy in Australia?
  50. Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce?

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