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35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought usHow the float was greeted, 35 years ago on December 10, 1983.The Australian, December 10, 1983

If a week is a long time in politics, then 35 years must be an eternity.

35 years ago, on Monday December 12, 1983, the Hawke-Keating government announced the Australian dollar would be floated.

That is, the prices set by willing buyers and sellers would...

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Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?

  • Written by: Cristina Mateo Rebollo, Executive Director, IE School of Architecture and Design, IE University
Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?Cities are the laboratories where the tech giants are exploring urban innovations.ShutterOK/Shutterstock

Global tech players such as Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon – the so-called Big 4, or GAFA – Airbnb and Tesla are redefining work, mobility, leisure and the everyday of how we live. Our cities are increasingly being used as...

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Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war

  • Written by: James H. Liu, Professor of Psychology, Massey University
Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of warThe USS Arizona sunk after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the...

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Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger

  • Written by: John Charles Ryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New England
Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger~boonie/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Starting on December 8, recreational abalone fishing will be allowed in Perth. Fishing will be limited to one hour on four Saturday mornings between December and February. The maximum catch is still 15 per person per day. A complete ban on abalone fishing between Geraldton and the Northern Territory border will remain in...

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  2. Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring
  3. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  4. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
  5. Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it
  6. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  7. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  8. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  9. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  10. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  11. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  12. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  13. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  14. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  15. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  16. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  17. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  18. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  19. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  20. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  21. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  22. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  23. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  24. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  25. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  26. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  27. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  28. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  29. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  30. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  31. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  32. how cities can make room for water
  33. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  34. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
  35. New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy
  36. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
  37. Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here's why
  38. free speech and Australian universities
  39. Here's the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)
  40. Operatic goddess Vivica Genaux reigns supreme in a lyrical study of conflicting desires
  41. Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks
  42. NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
  43. Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
  44. what it is and why it needs updating
  45. Australians think immigration should be cut? Well, it depends on how you ask
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  47. I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
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