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Don't trust the environmental hype about electric vehicles? The economic benefits might convince you

  • Written by: Gail Broadbent, PhD candidate Faculty of Science UNSW, UNSW
Don't trust the environmental hype about electric vehicles? The economic benefits might convince youThere are plenty of economic reasons to change our gas-guzzling habits.Shutterstock

With electric cars back in the headlines, it’s time to remember why we should bother making the transition away from oil.

In our recent research looking at attitudes towards electric vehicle uptake, we pointed to some of the factors making the case for change....

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Australia is vulnerable to a catastrophic cyber attack, but the Coalition has a poor cyber security track record

  • Written by: Greg Austin, Professor UNSW Canberra Cyber, UNSW

This article is part of a series examining the Coalition government’s record on key issues while in power and what Labor is promising if it wins the 2019 federal election.

The government’s chief cyber security coordinator, Alastair McGibbon, told an audience of specialists in November 2018 that the prospect of a catastrophic cyber...

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is water blue or is it just reflecting off the sky?

  • Written by: Justin Peter, Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
is water blue or is it just reflecting off the sky?The sea is blue because of the way water absorbs light, the way particles in the water scatter light, and also because some of the blue light from the sky is reflected.Flickr/Fiona Paton, CC BY-SA

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You...

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What the finance industry can tell us about what's holding back wages

  • Written by: Robert Sobyra, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
What the finance industry can tell us about what's holding back wagesIt'd be nice if all you needed to do was to produce more. In finance, that hasn't been enough.Shutterstock

Wage growth has fallen short of the official forecasts for an extraordinary eight consecutive budgets.

What the finance industry can tell us about what's holding back wagesCommonwealth budget papers, ABS wage price index

When asked what’s needed to actually get wage growth up in line with the repeated...

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  1. When science is put in the service of evil
  2. Why boycotts against Brunei's new anti-gay laws won't be effective, but regional pressure might
  3. Archaeology is unravelling new stories about Indigenous seagoing trade on Australia's doorstep
  4. trial of alleged perpetrator of Christchurch mosque shootings
  5. New report charts future of the family law system
  6. the long journey to the first image of a black hole
  7. As election 2019 kicks off, the only certainty is a cranky and mistrustful electorate
  8. Federal election 2019: state of the states
  9. Morrison visits Governor-General for a May 18 election
  10. India's elections will be the largest in world history
  11. How much evidence is enough to declare a new species of human from a Philippines cave site?
  12. Dog whistles, regional visas and wage theft – immigration policy is again an election issue
  13. There's a lot of bad news in the UN Global Environment Outlook, but a sustainable future is still possible
  14. Prescription monitoring is here, but we need to tread carefully to avoid unintended harms
  15. Both major parties are finally talking about the importance of preschool – here's why it matters
  16. Artificial intelligence may take your job, so political leaders need to start doing theirs
  17. Here's why well-intentioned vegan protesters are getting it wrong
  18. a lurch between aggression and apathy
  19. 'My girlfriend is intimidated by the idea of having sex. What should I do?'
  20. big on promises, short on follow-through
  21. Labor will prioritise an NBN 'digital inclusion drive' – here's what it should focus on
  22. Bowen says Labor would have lower tax take than under Howard years
  23. intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war
  24. Government advertising may be legal, but it's corrupting our electoral process
  25. Housing with no serious faults and buyer protection – is that too much to ask of builders and regulators?
  26. We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here's why it could happen again
  27. We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers
  28. Dutton suffers reflux after tasty Chinese meal
  29. Vicki Laveau-Harvie's remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize
  30. Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie
  31. The Coalition's report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails
  32. More hospitals will not cure Australia's ailing health-care system. There's a more efficient way
  33. From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations
  34. Coalition gets a bounce in Newspoll, but not in Ipsos or Essential
  35. The ABC didn't receive a reprieve in the budget. It's still facing staggering cuts
  36. Squid team finds high species diversity off Kermadec Islands, part of stalled marine reserve proposal
  37. green-collar criminals or civil 'disobedients'?
  38. Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine
  39. the curious case of shy lizards and deadly cane toads
  40. Business-as-usual record on transport leaves next government plenty of room to improve
  41. NZ journalists arrested in Fiji have been released but a new era of press freedom is yet to arrive
  42. A detailed eucalypt family tree helps us see how they came to dominate Australia
  43. The 14 Indigenous words for money on the new 50 cent coin
  44. What will the Coalition be remembered for on tax? Tinkering, blunders and lost opportunities
  45. Politicians need to listen up before they speak up – and listen in the right places
  46. Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed
  47. Which families delay sending their child to school, and why? We crunched the numbers
  48. We need new rules for defining who is sick. Step 1: remove vested interests
  49. In Australia, climate policy battles are endlessly reheated
  50. Australia has a new National Construction Code, but it's still not good enough

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Cost Savings and Benefits of Using Used Pallets in Logistics

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