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Can you afford to travel to work?
Katie Miller | April 22, 2024With the cost of commuting rising and city design limitations becoming more apparent, exploring alternative work arrangements, such as flexible or remote work options, becomes increasingly crucial.
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Eyes on the road
Shannon Roberts | April 8, 2024A driver’s only job is to keep their eyes on the road and avoid accidents, but the fondness for screens in modern cars and our addiction to our smart phones means that more distracted drivers are having more accidents than ever.
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Car wars
Open Forum | March 29, 2024Medical pressure group Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) have called for the cross bench to reject the watered down and delayed fuel efficiency standard proposed by the Federal Government, and urged it to protect the health of Australians by requiring tougher vehicle fleet standards.
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Scooter wars
Clara Zwack | February 8, 2024E-scooters, like E-bikes, are now a common site in Australia’s cities, offering users a quick, cheap form of urban transport – and posing a menace to pedestrians, road users and the riders themselves.
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Safer cycling
Open Forum | January 15, 2024Cycling deaths are slowly declining in Australia, but fatalities involving single riders and older people are on the rise.
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Your fast car’s a slow coach
Cecilia Duong | November 24, 2023Motorists are endlessly lectured about the need to slow down, but most of us go below the speed limit because car manufacturers always calibrate speedometers to show less than the car’s real velocity.
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Drive to survive
Open Forum | October 3, 2023A New South Wales academic with expertise in flying and psychology wants to change the way young people learn to drive to reduce their disproportionate road toll of deaths, injuries and accidents.
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Battery blues
Max Thomas | July 18, 2023Electric vehicles are slowly becoming more common on the nation’s roads, but ideologically appealing developments can easily produce more intractable problems than the technologies they replace.
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An accident waiting to happen
Tony Jaques | June 28, 2023The poor design and cavalier operation of the Titan submersible made it an accident waiting to happen, and, as with so many previous disasters, warnings about the dangers were continually dismissed or ignored.
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All at sea
Ali Asgary | June 22, 2023The loss of the Titanic led to the creation of The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) which mandated a range of maritime safety measures and the loss of the Titan submersible may prompt a similar rethink of legislation.