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The new electric vehicle highway is a welcome gear shift, but other countries are still streets ahead

  • Written by: Iftekhar Ahmad, Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University
The new electric vehicle highway is a welcome gear shift, but other countries are still streets aheadMotorists and governments have each been waiting for the other to take the plunge on electric cars.Shutterstock.com

Perhaps buoyed by a 67% increase in the sale of electric cars in Australia last year – albeit coming off a low base – the federal government this month announced a A$6 million funding injection for a network of ultra-fast...

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Satirist Jonathan Biggins on sending up the pollies

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Satirist Jonathan Biggins on sending up the polliesCC BY

Jonathan Biggins, who has been sending up politicians as part of The Wharf Revue for almost two decades, has some sharp words about social media - “the enemy of democracy, not its ally” - and a warning on political correctness.

“We are entering an age of a new puritanism that is actually not only driven by the censorious...

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Labor is making big promises for a Pacific development bank, but questions remain

  • Written by: Matthew Dornan, Research Fellow, Australian National University
Labor is making big promises for a Pacific development bank, but questions remainLocals in Kiribati building a sea wall to protect the low-lying Pacific island from rising sea waters.Elise Scott/AAP

This week, Opposition leader Bill Shorten used a major foreign policy speech at the Lowy Institute to announce that, if elected, a future Labor government would establish an infrastructure investment bank for the Pacific islands.

The...

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a literary hero with bite

  • Written by: Eric Parisot, Lecturer in English, Flinders University
a literary hero with biteDarcy, played here by Colin Firth in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, has morphed from dreamboat to vampire in recent fiction.BBC

Ever since Colin “Wet-Shirt” Firth got hearts racing across the globe in Andrew Davies’ BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1995), the cult of Mr Darcy has been in full...

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  1. why Australia’s hospitals and health care is failing
  2. The search for the source of a mysterious fast radio burst comes relatively close to home
  3. Australian cricket's wake-up call on a culture that has cost it dearly
  4. How to pitch to The Conversation
  5. Five questions (and answers) about casual employment
  6. The Conversation wins a UN Day Media Award
  7. how political donations could be reformed to reduce potential influence
  8. Indian diaspora in New Zealand and Australia
  9. If we're to have another inquiry into mental health, it should look at why the others have been ignored
  10. Why Australia should be wary of the Proud Boys and their violent, alt-right views on race
  11. Expecting autistic people to 'fit in' is cruel and unproductive; value us for our strengths
  12. How flashing lights and catchy tunes make gamblers take more risks
  13. Infrastructure splurge ignores smarter ways to keep growing cities moving
  14. It's clear why coal struggles for finance – and the government can't change that
  15. how to tell the difference between hay fever and the common cold
  16. Some questions for Simon Birmingham, from two researchers whose ARC grant he quashed
  17. Uncomfortable comparisons. Why Rod Sims broke the ACCC record
  18. Dancing Grandmothers offers a moment of communion
  19. Morrison's ratings slump in Newspoll; Wentworth's huge difference in on-the-day and early voting
  20. diverting population growth to the regions
  21. Is there anything hotter than the Sun?
  22. Shorten proposes investment bank to help Pacific nations' development
  23. State governments are vital for Australian democracy: here's why
  24. Grattan Institute Orange Book 2018. State governments matter, vote wisely
  25. Ensuring children get enough physical activity while being safe is a delicate balancing act
  26. Why car sharing had a slow start in Australia
  27. How a near-perfect rectangular iceberg formed
  28. Crowd-mapping gender equality – a powerful tool for shaping a better city launches in Melbourne
  29. The ancient origins of werewolves
  30. Simon Birmingham's intervention in research funding is not unprecedented, but dangerous
  31. The rise of sponges in Anthropocene reef ecosystems
  32. Spinifex grass would like us to stop putting out bushfires, please
  33. Michelle Grattan on the Wentworth washup
  34. Three charts on: how and what Australians eat (hint: it's not good)
  35. Heart attacks more frequent in colder weather
  36. Imagining your own SeaChange – how media inspire our great escapes
  37. Inside the world of million-dollar beauty pageants – for camels
  38. More than a century on, the battle fought by Australia's suffragists is yet to be won
  39. Being in nature is good for learning, here's how to get kids off screens and outside
  40. can you cut your cancer risk by eating organic?
  41. Government to set up new multi-billion Future Drought Fund
  42. Australia's 5% jobless rate is not full employment; pushing up interest rates would be wrong
  43. Please, not another super scheme, Mr Keating. It's what the pension is for
  44. Ancient fish evolved in shallow seas – the very places humans threaten today
  45. a fresh perspective on Leonard Cohen and the island that inspired him
  46. Morrison fights political fire with leaky buckets
  47. Want to improve care in nursing homes? Mandate minimum staffing levels
  48. We have so many ways to pursue a healthy climate – it's insane to wait any longer
  49. Can your actions really save the planet? 'Planetary accounting' has the answer
  50. Why we need more than just data to create ethical driverless cars

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