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Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?

  • Written by: Susan Gourvenec, Professor, Offshore Geomechanics, University of Western Australia
imageCan undersea oil rigs become homes?US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

The global offshore oil and gas industry has installed a wide variety of infrastructure throughout our oceans, including tens of thousands of wells, thousands of platforms and many thousands of kilometres of seabed pipelines.

Many of these structures have been in service for...

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Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam

  • Written by: Louise Katz, Lecturer in academic communication, University of Sydney
imageOur relationships, desires, anxieties are reflected in the way we communicate.from www.shutterstock.com

The words we use alter perceptions and therefore the expectations we have of ourselves and each other. Language may act as a means of control and coercion, of transforming human relationships and social contracts.

Our current cultural and...

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ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageABS Census home pageABS

The Australian census has proved a disaster tonight as the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) threw up its hands and declared that its online service would not be available on the night that the census was due to be completed and people should try again in the morning.

After struggling to convince the Australian public...

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The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Nick Xenophon is a populist politician with a knack of identifying issues likely to trouble people. When he said this week he wouldn’t put his name on his form, he immediately elevated the debate around the privacy of the census.

He’s also presented a challenge for the embattled Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS): should it pursue...

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  1. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  2. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees
  3. Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade
  4. Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later
  5. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  6. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected
  7. Horton wins by naming the elephant in the room at Rio Olympics
  8. Smart cities: does this mean more transport disruptions?
  9. Why credit rating agencies' economic advice shouldn't be trusted
  10. Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
  11. Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
  12. Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team
  13. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  14. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  15. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  16. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  17. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  18. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  19. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  20. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  21. Does racism make us sick?
  22. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  23. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  24. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  25. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  26. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?
  27. Can you 'teach' workers to be more emotionally resilient?
  28. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
  29. Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes
  30. The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull
  31. Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions
  32. Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050
  33. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
  34. What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?
  35. Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
  36. Further Senate results and analysis
  37. The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments
  38. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
  39. Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
  40. Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom
  41. Turnbull inquiry-lite bank plan falls short
  42. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  43. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  44. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  45. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  46. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination
  47. Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?
  48. The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives
  49. Fast food companies use social networking sites to target children
  50. So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice?

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