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Don't blame parcel delivery vans for clogging up city traffic, look to the tradies

  • Written by David M. Herold, Sustainable Logistics Researcher, Griffith University
Don't blame parcel delivery vans for clogging up city traffic, look to the tradiesParcel delivery vehicles makeup a small fraction of commercial traffic in our cities.Flickr/Andrew Dallos, CC BY-NC-ND

A rise in online shopping is often blamed for an increase in the number of parcel delivery vehicles clogging up our busy city roads.

But a study we at Vienna University carried out for a European postal service found parcel delivery...

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What might Lily and Abbey say to Scott Morrison about Greta Thunberg?

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

Scott Morrison doesn’t shy away from talking about his family, so it was perhaps unsurprising he told reporters he discussed climate change with his daughters, aged 10 and 12.

“We don’t have deep conversations about emissions reduction targets and what’s happening with the Kyoto Protocol and Paris,” he said. “But...

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tapestries interweave traditions with a new sense of place

  • Written by Sue Green, Deputy Co-ordinator, Journalism Program, Swinburne University of Technology
tapestries interweave traditions with a new sense of placeEma Shin's Soft Alchemy (Fertile Heart) 2019, cotton, wool, wire.Photo: Oleksandr Pogorilyi

The spare, white-walled Australian Tapestry Workshop gallery is very much of its place, a wall of windows fronting the South Melbourne street. Cars, trams and shoppers are just metres away, the occasional pedestrian observing the observer. It’s a stark...

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With 15 other children, Greta Thunberg has filed a UN complaint against 5 countries. Here’s what it’ll achieve

  • Written by Juliette McIntyre, Lecturer in Law, University of South Australia

Yesterday, climate activist Greta Thunberg joined 15 other children from around the world to submit a complaint – or “communication” – to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. They targeted Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey.

Ranging from nine to 17 years old, and from twelve different nations, the group...

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  1. Here is a global solution to the plastic waste crisis
  2. In a virtual universe of 'perfect' bodies, Instagram's new policy offers important protection for young users
  3. Australia's mining know-how makes it the perfect $150m partner for NASA's Moon and Mars shots
  4. Australia is the runaway global leader in building new renewable energy
  5. Swollen executive pay packets reveal the limits of corporate activism
  6. why the Nationals shouldn't politicise the science replication crisis
  7. Merchants of misinformation are all over the internet. But the real problem lies with us
  8. Politicians who become lobbyists can be bad for Australians' health
  9. Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness shines a spotlight on the changing face of HIV
  10. it’s a word we use a lot, but what exactly is it?
  11. The ban on live sheep exports has just been lifted. Here’s what’s changed
  12. Albanese slams Morrison for using a "loud hailer" to talk to China from US
  13. a searing comics anthology on sexual violence
  14. Why can't rape survivors in Tasmania reveal their name, even when they want to?
  15. Do new cancer drugs work? Too often we don't really know (and neither does your doctor)
  16. Highly touted UN climate summit failed to deliver
  17. why can't we just build a pipe to move water to areas in drought?
  18. daughters of Robert Menzies and Arthur Calwell say parliament wasn't always a 'fort'
  19. 1 in 3 new mums struggle to get their baby to sleep, but some women have a tougher time
  20. 'Transformer' rooms and robo-furniture are set to remake our homes – and lives – before our eyes
  21. Yes, the US-Australia alliance is important, but Scott Morrison needs to take a careful approach with Donald Trump
  22. neither science nor history favours a dairy monopoly
  23. debunking the myths around self-injury
  24. We can make roof tiles with built-in solar cells – now the challenge is to make them cheaper
  25. How raising tax for high-income earners would reduce inequality, improve social welfare in New Zealand
  26. Leila Waddell, Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebel
  27. native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads
  28. where do phobias come from?
  29. Activists are using the climate emergency as a new legal defence to justify law-breaking
  30. the idea behind Labor's National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving
  31. Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal
  32. Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook – AI isn't smart enough yet
  33. City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on
  34. In a chatty world, losing your speech can be alienating. But there's help
  35. How Australians talk about tucker is a story that'll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant
  36. 'Edible forests' can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time
  37. 10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools
  38. From crime fighters to crime writers
  39. young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life
  40. To go to China you have to be invited: Morrison
  41. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the family law inquiry
  42. why don't we have electric aircraft?
  43. how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisis
  44. A shot of hope in the face of climate despair
  45. It's safest to avoid e-cigarettes altogether – unless vaping is helping you quit smoking
  46. What is the charge of concealment of birth and why is it still happening in Australia?
  47. We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians
  48. on the ending of a friendship
  49. Ignoring young people's climate change fears is a recipe for anxiety
  50. Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing

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