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1.1KArticleElection Spending on Facebook Ads
We tracked election ad spending for 4,000 Facebook pages. Here’s what they’re posting about – and why cybersecurity is the bigger concern Have...
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Wilkie on Hung Parliaments
Andrew Wilkie, MP for the Tasmanian seat of Clark, has ‘lived’ a hung parliament. In 2010, Wilkie did a formal ‘deal’ to...
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1.1KArticle12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities
Question: what do the following statistics have in common? The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. The leading killer...
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Where’s Cost-of-living Relief for Renters?
Renters spend 10 times as much on housing as petrol. Where’s their cost-of-living relief? If the pre-election budget was designed to address...
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Medical Review Condemns Vaping
A damning review of e-cigarettes shows vaping leads to smoking, the opposite of what supporters claim A major review on the health effects of e-cigarettes...
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Federal Court Decision Undoes 20 Years of Climate Litigation Process
Today’s disappointing federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia The federal court today unanimously decided Federal Environment Minister...
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Getting to Net Zero Quickly
Australia could get to net zero emissions much quicker than 2050 – if our politics was a force for change. Here’s how Let’s...
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Avoiding Another Digital Blackout
How Tasmania’s major digital blackout was fixed, and how another could be avoided – an electrical engineer explains Tasmanians yesterday suffered a six-hour...
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Price to Pay for ‘Giving Up’ on Pandemic
Editor’s note: This prescient article was first published in The Conversation on 23 March 2021. Apart from updating ‘As the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Magnificent Blackwood
After the long COVID-induced lockdowns of 2021, I’m more excited than usual for a joyous gathering at Christmas, where four generations of...
