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Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?

  • Written by: Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?Organisations can use offsets as part of their emission reduction strategy.Shutterstock

In this election, often dubbed the “climate election”, voters are refusing to settle for weak policies on climate change.

But between the “will they/won’t they” question of whether the coalition will meet their climate targets and...

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We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis

  • Written by: Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisisThe Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) became extinct in 2009.Lindy Lumsden

Humans are causing the Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, with an estimated one million species at risk of extinction.

Addressing this crisis requires transformative change, including more effective environmental law and implementation.

Improved...

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will Whelan disendorsement make a difference in Tasmania?

  • Written by: Chris Aulich, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, University of Canberra
will Whelan disendorsement make a difference in Tasmania?Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Our “state of the states” series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states.

We’ll check in with our expert political analysts around the country every week of the campaign for updates on how it is playing out.


New South Wales

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More First Nations people in parliament matters. Here’s why.

  • Written by: Diana Perche, Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Nura Gili Indigenous Programs Unit, UNSW
More First Nations people in parliament matters. Here’s why.MP Pat Dodson could be the next minister for Indigenous Affairs if Labor wins the federal election, a first for a First Nations person.Mick Tsikas/AAP

First Nations people in Australia face structural barriers to political participation. The institutions of government remain predominantly white, and almost 60 years after being given the right to...

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  1. separating the art from the badly behaved artist – a philosopher's view
  2. Giving workers a voice in the boardroom is a compelling corporate governance reform
  3. Ancient Rome inspired Washington but its legacy of being open to all has fallen into oblivion
  4. Many young women find pleasure in sexually explicit material but it still reinforces gender inequality
  5. Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
  6. When it came to the surplus, both Bill and Scott were having a lend
  7. A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?
  8. Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinction threat
  9. Mine are bigger than yours. Labor's surpluses are the Coalition's worst nightmare
  10. Bill Shorten's moment of "connection" brings back memories of Beaconsfield
  11. why humour is a hit-and-miss affair on the election campaign trail
  12. 'New low' for journalism? Why News Corp's partisan campaign coverage is harmful to democracy
  13. Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their grief
  14. Man Out of Time and the inheritance of suffering
  15. Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap
  16. Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential poll
  17. You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon Snow
  18. why do leaves fall off trees?
  19. Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
  20. helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children
  21. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  22. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  23. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  24. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  25. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  26. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  27. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  28. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  29. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  30. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  31. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  32. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  33. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  34. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  35. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  36. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  37. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  38. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  39. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  40. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  41. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  42. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?
  43. Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let's use it as a chance to talk
  44. How highly sexualised imagery is shaping 'influence' on Instagram
  45. Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?
  46. Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
  47. Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here
  48. are water crystals bad for the environment?
  49. why do we get motion sickness and what's the best way to treat it?
  50. Why Adani's finch plan was rejected, and what comes next

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