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3 experts rate Australia's emissions technology plan

  • Written by: Jake Whitehead, Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow & Tritum E-Mobility Fellow, The University of Queensland
3 experts rate Australia's emissions technology planJames Gourley/AAP

Energy Minister Angus Taylor yesterday released his government’s emissions reduction technology plan, setting out priorities for meeting Australia’s climate targets while growing the economy.

The long-awaited Technology Investment Roadmap examined more than 140 technologies for potential investment between now and 2050....

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From spit to scrums. How can sports players minimise their coronavirus risk?

  • Written by: Philip Russo, Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University

As we emerge from lockdown, so does our sport. And many sporting bodies are grappling with the best way to do this while protecting their players, staff and fans from the coronavirus.

For instance, earlier this week, the International Cricket Council said using sweat to shine a cricket ball was OK, but not saliva.

The Australian Institute of Sport...

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Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia

  • Written by: Jeff Kildea, Adjunct Professor Irish Studies, UNSW
Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in AustraliaNational Museum of Australia

In a remarkable coincidence, the first media reports about Spanish flu and COVID-19 in Australia both occurred on January 25 – exactly 101 years apart.

This is not the only similarity between the two pandemics.

Although history does not repeat, it rhymes. The story of how Australia - and particular the NSW...

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'wolf warriors' ready to fight back

  • Written by: Rowan Callick, Industry Fellow, Griffith University
'wolf warriors' ready to fight backWu Hong/EPA

When former President Hu Jintao visited Australia in 2003, he began his address to parliament by describing the exploits of a 15th century Chinese admiral, Zheng He:

Back in the 1420s, the expeditionary fleets of China’s Ming Dynasty reached Australian shores … They brought Chinese culture to this land and lived harmoniously...

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  1. Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes
  2. Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules
  3. Rich and poor don't recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge
  4. Australia, it's time to talk about our water emergency
  5. the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism
  6. Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs
  7. Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts
  8. Tonight we riot? What Nintendo's 'revolutionary' video game misses about worker liberation
  9. Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?
  10. Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can't just snap back to 'normal' funding arrangements
  11. NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that's a bad move
  12. Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections
  13. Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism
  14. 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy
  15. Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?
  16. The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
  17. Why it is "reasonable and necessary" for the NDIS to support people's sex lives
  18. Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on
  19. When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week
  20. Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement
  21. Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together
  22. How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
  23. After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did it
  24. Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act
  25. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  26. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
  27. 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia
  28. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
  29. The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute
  30. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory
  31. Denied intimacy in 'iso', Aussies go online for adult content – so what's hot in each major city?
  32. why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
  33. A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic
  34. The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
  35. how to count like a bee
  36. Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at home
  37. Thanks to The Conversation's authors, for going above and beyond
  38. Recession hits Māori and Pasifika harder. They must be part of planning New Zealand's COVID-19 recovery
  39. Australia doesn't need more anti-terror laws that aren't necessary – or even used
  40. why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
  41. China used anti-dumping rules against us because what goes around comes around
  42. Australia must outperform to come out even from COVID-19
  43. Before epidemiologists began modelling disease, it was the job of astrologers
  44. Be worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current environmental laws
  45. Why is the Australian government letting universities suffer?
  46. Democracy 2025 - Political trust in times of COVID-19 with Michelle Grattan, Mark Evans, Peter Shergold, and Renée Leon
  47. Could blood thinners be a lifesaving treatment for COVID-19? Here's what the science says and what it means for you
  48. These young Queenslanders are taking on Clive Palmer's coal company and making history for human rights
  49. Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it
  50. Coronavirus anti-vaxxers aren’t a huge threat yet. How do we keep it that way?

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