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expert review rejects NSW plan to let seawater flow into the Murray River

  • Written by: Jamie Pittock, Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University

A major independent review has confirmed freshwater flows are vital to maintaining the health of the Murray River’s lower lakes, striking a blow to demands by New South Wales that seawater flow in.

The review, released today, was led by the CSIRO and commissioned by the Murray Darling Basin Authority. It examined hundreds of scientific...

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So coronavirus will change cities – will that include slums?

  • Written by: David Sanderson, Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW
So coronavirus will change cities – will that include slums?Aditya Kabir/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Many commentators have speculated on how the coronavirus pandemic will alter cities and the ways they are planned and used. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has tweeted: “There is a density level in NYC that is destructive […] NYC must develop an immediate plan to reduce density.”

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moving New Zealand from critical care to long-term recovery

  • Written by: Norman Gemmell, Chair in Public Finance, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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May 14’s budget will surely be remembered as the “pandemic budget”. It might seem like the worst possible timing – economic uncertainty rages, Treasury has had to abandon its usual economic “forecasts”, and the pandemic’s viral economic spread is far from over.

On the contrary, this may...

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Contact tracing apps are vital tools in the fight against coronavirus. But who decides how they work?

  • Written by: Seth Lazar, Professor, Australian National University

Last week the head of Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency, Randall Brugeaud, told a Senate committee hearing an updated version of Australia’s COVIDSafe contact-tracing app would soon be released. That’s because the current version doesn’t work properly on Apple phones, which restrict background broadcasting of the...

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  1. how much free speech should our public servants have?
  2. coronavirus will hit Australia's research capacity harder than the GFC
  3. Getting an abortion just got harder, thanks to the coronavirus. Here's what we can do better
  4. Which Florence Nightingale will we remember today? The 'Lady with the Lamp' or the influential writer and activist?
  5. Coronavirus lays bare 5 big housing system flaws to be fixed
  6. Australia listened to the science on coronavirus. Imagine if we did the same for coal mining
  7. The ghosts of budgets past haunt New Zealand's shot at economic recovery
  8. US-China relations were already heated. Then coronavirus threw fuel on the flames
  9. The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale's true legacy
  10. Not all twins are identical and that's been an evolutionary puzzle, until now
  11. First stage of 'road back' will boost monthly GDP by $3.1 billion and jobs by 252,500: Frydenberg
  12. how the Cold War shaped Little Richard
  13. China might well refuse to take our barley, and there would be little we could do
  14. This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation
  15. Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey
  16. As sport resumes after lockdown, it's time to level the playing field for women and girls
  17. It's hard to know when to come out from under the doona. It'll be soon, but not yet
  18. Should we re-open pubs next week? The benefits seem to exceed the costs
  19. Inside an innovative program helping sex offenders reintegrate into society – and why it works
  20. how 'death ships' spread disease through the ages
  21. how coronavirus is changing our language
  22. 40% of Australian principals are victims of physical violence
  23. Retire the retirement village – the wall and what’s behind it is so 2020
  24. Coronavirus shows housing costs leave many insecure. Tackling that can help solve an even bigger crisis
  25. Australians want industry, and they'd like it green. Steel is the place to start
  26. Let's "SnapBack" to better society with more secure jobs: Anthony Albanese
  27. From coronavirus tests to open-source insulin and beyond, 'biohackers' are showing the power of DIY science
  28. Little Richard's saucy style underpins today's hits
  29. The stepped approach out of lockdown is the only way forward, but how much we'll allow the curve to rise is still an unknown
  30. The Reserve Bank thinks the recovery will look V-shaped. There are reasons to doubt it
  31. Australia starts to re-open, but the premiers have the whip hand on timing
  32. Could BCG, a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis, protect against coronavirus?
  33. National parks are for native wildlife, not feral horses: federal court
  34. Was New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference
  35. From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame
  36. Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses?
  37. We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants
  38. Michelle Grattan on the rapid developments in Eden-Monaro, the national cabinet, and next week's 'normal' parliamentary sitting
  39. Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as essential in New Zealand's lockdown?
  40. keep free childcare going instead
  41. The US military has officially published three UFO videos. Why doesn't anybody seem to care?
  42. 50 years on, the Vietnam moratorium campaigns remind us of a different kind of politics
  43. We may well be able to eliminate coronavirus, but we'll probably never eradicate it. Here's the difference
  44. Past pandemics show how coronavirus budgets can drive faster economic recovery
  45. some home builders are misleading consumers about energy ratings
  46. Overcrowded homes and a lack of water leave some Indonesians at risk of the coronavirus
  47. The calculus of death shows the COVID lock-down is clearly worth the cost
  48. coughs on film and the fine but deadly art of foreshadowing
  49. The delicate art of political distancing during the pandemic
  50. How safe is COVIDSafe? What you should know about the app's issues, and Bluetooth-related risks

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