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Cutting ARENA would devastate clean energy research

  • Written by: Nicky Ison, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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This week’s first sitting of the 45th Parliament of Australia is considering a A$6.5 billion “omnibus savings bill”, including a proposed cut of A$1.3 billion to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). If adopted, it would effectively mean the end of ARENA and would devastate clean energy research in Australia.

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Here's why your body makes you feel like crap when you're sick

  • Written by: Olivia Carter, Senior Lecturer & ARC Future Fellow, University of Melbourne

It is hard to find the words to describe how I feel at the moment because my brain is only working at about 10% capacity. At least I made it to work today. This is an improvement on last week, when I decided to stay home after waking up exhausted with a warm and unpleasant throbbing pressure spreading into my eyeballs and across my sinuses.

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FactCheck Q A: is a week's worth of Newstart equal to what a politician can claim for one night in Canberra?

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University

The federal government is considering trimming welfare spending in an effort repair the budget bottom line.

As Q&A panellists debated welfare reform, the founder and chief executive of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Kon Karapanagiotidis, said on Twitter that what a politician can claim for one night for staying in Canberra for work is...

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Full response from Kon Karapanagiotidis

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Editor, The Conversation

In response to questions from The Conversation in relation to this FactCheck on parliamentary entitlements and the Newstart allowance, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Kon Karapanagiotidis said:

First, I heard it spoken of during the week on radio last week on an ABC current affairs segment (Sorry, I can’t remember which one). Then I...

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