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If you want to boost the economy, big infrastructure projects won't cut it: new Treasury boss

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy – in the job for for just weeks after moving across from the department of infrastructure last month – has dismissed talk of spending big on infrastructure in order to escape an economic downturn.

Such calls “sound straightforward, but in practice are difficult to achieve”, he told a Senate...

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Politicians must mine the divide between coal lobbies and energy companies

  • Written by Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
Politicians must mine the divide between coal lobbies and energy companiesBHP has voted to stay in the Minerals Council of Australia.Environmental Change and Security Program/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

It’s time we started talking about the principal opponents to action on climate change – fossil fuel industries. If history has taught us anything, it is when oil, gas and coal industries oppose policies to reduce...

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'My friends are taking MDMA at raves and music festivals. Is it safe?'

  • Written by Jodie Grigg, Research Associate at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
'My friends are taking MDMA at raves and music festivals. Is it safe?'No drug is 100% safe. Wes Mountain

My friends are taking ecstasy at raves and music festivals. Is it safe? — Anonymous

Key points

  • no drug use, including ecstasy, is 100% safe
  • festivals can present unique risks
  • look out for friends, know the risks and where to get help.

'My friends are taking MDMA at raves and music festivals. Is it safe?'

What is ecstasy or MDMA?

Ecstasy is a slang term for drugs meant to contain...

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new projects focus on the rights of artists with disabilities

  • Written by Chloe Watfern, Scientia PhD scholar, UNSW
new projects focus on the rights of artists with disabilitiesArtists at work.Studio A.

At Studio A, on the fourth floor of the Crows Nest community centre, a group of artists is working quietly.

An occasional burst of laughter erupts from a corner of the studio. It makes its way around the room, past sculptures and paintings and drawings in various degrees of completion, past beads and thread and wool and...

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  1. what happens when AI starts giving out fashion tips?
  2. Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don't want to rock the boat
  3. Australians split on the level of foreign students: ANUpoll
  4. 3 things to help improve your exam results (besides studying)
  5. Australian governments have long been hostile to media freedom. That's unlikely to change any time soon
  6. The 'ceasefire' in Syria is ending – here's what's likely to happen now
  7. from koala jumpers to the Sydney Olympics, Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson defined Australian fashion
  8. Is coconut water good for you? We asked five experts
  9. Your brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
  10. a clever way to include homes in the age pension assets test
  11. how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce
  12. Trackless trams v light rail? It's not a contest – both can improve our cities
  13. Horse racing must change, or the court of public opinion will bury it
  14. where big businesses dump their excess data, and hackers have a field day
  15. the medevac law saves lives. But even this isn't enough to alleviate refugee suffering
  16. the art and genius of metaphor in Anna Spargo-Ryan’s The Paper House
  17. Australia needs a Media Freedom Act. Here's how it could work
  18. Australia has plenty of gas, but our bills are ridiculous. The market is broken
  19. here's what Aboriginal survivors of child sexual abuse told us they need
  20. Don't stress, your ATAR isn't the final call. There are many ways to get into university
  21. We could reduce the slaughter of racehorses if we breed them for longer racing careers
  22. To bolster our fragile road and rail system we need to add a 'micro-mobility' network
  23. Can Ne Zha, the Chinese superhero with $1b at the box office, teach us how to raise good kids?
  24. Breaking Pauline Hanson's 'strike' has taken skin off Bridget McKenzie
  25. a charismatic, generous performance about growing up Sikh in Australia
  26. How big alcohol is trying to fool us into thinking drinking is safer than it really is
  27. A criminal asked to design anti-money laundering laws would probably keep our current ones
  28. Migrant communities keep our cemeteries alive as more Anglo-Australians turn to cremation
  29. Morrison says China knows 'where Australia is coming from', after meeting Chinese vice-president
  30. Who's responsible for the slaughtered ex-racehorses, and what can be done?
  31. Arrogance destroyed the World Trade Organisation. What replaces it will be even worse
  32. Science prizes are still a boys' club. Here's how we can change that
  33. 4 ways to talk with vaccine skeptics
  34. The Trump presidency should not be shocking. It's a symptom of our cultural malaise
  35. how we hear image, emotion and identity
  36. Growing numbers of renters are trapped for years in homes they can't afford
  37. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's drought policy
  38. Our ability to manufacture minerals could transform the gem market, medical industries and even help suck carbon from the air
  39. Lambie stays mute on medevac vote after Senate inquiry splits on party lines
  40. Sydney's 9,189 'sister politicians' who petitioned Queen Victoria
  41. A pioneering climate scientist skilled in the art of life
  42. ​The Coalition government is (again) trying to put the squeeze on the ABC
  43. Is your horse normal? Now there’s an app for that
  44. Might consciousness and free will be the aces up our sleeves when it comes to competing with robots?
  45. Vital signs. Our compulsory super system is broken. We ought to axe it, or completely reform it
  46. What is perimenopause and how does it affect women's health in midlife?
  47. Curious Kids: how are stars made?
  48. a road trip reveals local museums stuck in a rut
  49. how 'city girls' can learn to feel at home in the country
  50. Storm clouds avoid the bush, darken over the economy

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