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NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane

  • Written by: Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University
NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methaneAgriculture – including methane from cows and sheep – currently contributes almost half of New Zealand's greenhouse emissions.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

New Zealand’s long-awaited zero carbon bill will create sweeping changes to the management of emissions, setting a global benchmark with ambitious reduction targets for...

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Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting

  • Written by: Debra Flanders Cushing, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Queensland University of Technology
Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parentingParks are places where children make their own decisions, explore their imaginations and expand their abilities. Daxiao Productions/Shutterstock

Well-designed suburban parks could be an antidote to helicopter parenting. As well as giving kids much-needed time outdoors being active, suburban parks offer kids opportunities to decide what activities...

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Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species

  • Written by: Stuart Collard, Research Fellow, The Centre for Global Food and Resources, University of Adelaide
Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual speciesThe endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland is an ecological community that have shrunk to 6% of their original area.Pete the Poet/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The world’s largest assessment of biodiversity recently shared the alarming news that 1 million species are under threat of extinction.

Australia’s extinction record is poor compared to the...

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Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?

  • Written by: Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney

At the 2016 federal election, a small but significant vote cast by foreign-born Australians and their families helped elect the Liberal Party. The voters backed conservative minor parties in typically Labor-leaning electorates, and their preferences flowed to the Liberals.

Electoral pundits made little of this phenomenon at the time, and the media...

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  2. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  3. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  4. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  5. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  6. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  7. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  8. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  9. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  10. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  11. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  12. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  13. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  14. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  15. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  16. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  17. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  18. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?
  19. Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let's use it as a chance to talk
  20. How highly sexualised imagery is shaping 'influence' on Instagram
  21. Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?
  22. Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
  23. Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here
  24. are water crystals bad for the environment?
  25. why do we get motion sickness and what's the best way to treat it?
  26. Why Adani's finch plan was rejected, and what comes next
  27. 5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age
  28. how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings
  29. Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign
  30. the big tech business model
  31. why don't horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?
  32. how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice
  33. Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology
  34. For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter
  35. The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan
  36. is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?
  37. How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy
  38. What are the major parties promising on health this election?
  39. Bill Shorten's promise of a living wage is both realistic and necessary. But it's not enough.
  40. On rate-cut Tuesday, here are four reasons why the Reserve Bank shouldn't jump
  41. 'Revolutionary change' needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
  42. El Niño has rapidly become stronger and stranger, according to coral records
  43. Move away from a car-dominated city looks radical but it's a sensible plan for a liveable future
  44. Inside the story: The Merger
  45. rediscovering the genesis of a film classic
  46. Richard Eccleston on the electoral mood in Tasmania
  47. millions of Indian youth are underemployed and going to the polls
  48. Labor's election pledge to improve Australian diets is a first – now we need action, not just 'consideration'
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