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The legacy of Glenn Stevens in three lessons

  • Written by: Fabrizio Carmignani, Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University

On September 18 2016, Glenn Stevens will end his ten-year mandate as governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). His experience in the top job provides a wealth of lessons for the next generation of policymakers; that’s arguably his most important legacy.

A graduate from the University of Sydney and the University of Western Ontario in...

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Just for you: how to create sounds that only you can hear in a venue

  • Written by: Jacob Donley, PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong
imageIt's possible to create sound in a part of a room that only you can hear, but others elsewhere cannot.Shutterstock/Syda Productions

Picture your typical busy cafe or restaurant that’s full of people. The diners are usually all forced to listen to the same music that’s pumped into the venue via the speakers.

What if you could create sound...

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The $8.2 billion water bill to clean up the Barrier Reef by 2025 – and where to start

  • Written by: John Rolfe, Professor of Regional Economic Development, School of Business and Law, CQUniversity Australia

In 2015, the Australian and Queensland governments agreed on targets to greatly reduce the sediment and nutrient pollutants flowing onto the Great Barrier Reef.

What we do on land has a real impact out on the reef: sediments can smother the corals, while high nutrient levels help to trigger more regular and larger outbreaks of crown-of-thorns...

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Vital Signs: US scores while Australia struggles

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: The US economy is looking healthy, but in Australia it’s a different story as departing RBA...

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  1. NAPLAN data is not comparable across school years
  2. Higher, faster, stronger: Olympic athletics by numbers
  3. Cutting to numb the pain of sex abuse: interviews with young women in drug treatment
  4. Friday essay: reflections on the idea of a common humanity
  5. How temporary migration is changing Australia – and the world
  6. Root of census failures say badly done IBM and ABS. Still down for some.
  7. Grattan on Friday: There's seldom been a harder time to get things done
  8. Ausgrid: electricity decision fails to shock
  9. Changing state-owned enterprises provide less cause for Chinese investment fears
  10. Going for... green? Why Rio's swimming pools are changing colour
  11. Stopping land clearing and replanting trees could help keep Australia cool in a warmer future
  12. Morrison blocks Chinese bids for NSW power grid
  13. A solution to antibiotic resistance may have been under our noses all along
  14. Why Australian women over 55 aren't exactly enjoying the time of their lives
  15. Angry Turnbull flags heads will roll over census disaster
  16. Explainer: what makes a winning swimmer?
  17. Companions of Earth: minimoons, quasi-satellites and horseshoes
  18. All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds
  19. Will Chinese investment sacrifice Ukraine's dreams of democracy to economic needs?
  20. The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial
  21. Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife
  22. The curious incentives and consequences of negative gearing
  23. Science or snake oil? Do the enduring Hydroxycut weight-loss products work?
  24. Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games
  25. Incest: why is 'worst of the worst' abuse so often ignored?
  26. Meme wars: Lush, Hillary Clinton and graffiti on Instagram
  27. Nine years after the Pasha Bulker storm, we're finally getting a handle on East Coast Lows
  28. Reserve Bank governor calls for hard talk about budget repair
  29. Did the Census really suffer a denial-of-service 'attack'?
  30. Nauru abuse reports warrant urgent action to protect children in offshore detention
  31. Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat
  32. People have lost faith in privatisation and it's easy to see why
  33. Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack
  34. With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?
  35. Weekly Dose: triptans, drugs that relieve migraine but only if taken at the right time
  36. Drowning by averages: did the ABS miscalculate the Census load?
  37. Explainer: what is age-related macular degeneration?
  38. Andrew Bolt and ACMA: should 'hyperbole' get in the way of accuracy?
  39. Census website cracks after 'malicious' attack by hackers
  40. Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
  41. Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
  42. Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?
  43. More than fun: capitalising sport’s social goods
  44. Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics
  45. Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?
  46. Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam
  47. ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census
  48. The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night
  49. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  50. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees

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