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Blowing in the wind
Open Forum | December 10, 2020New research suggests the increasing use of energy from wind farms is lowering electricity prices, but increasing price volatility in the national energy market.
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Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – The idea of democracy
Mark Nicol | December 10, 2020Western liberal democracy has its deep but tangled roots in a host of religious as well as secular traditions, and its apparent decline can only be arrested by a reappreciation of rationality and individual merit.
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Avoiding the technology trap
Lesley Seebeck | December 9, 2020At a recent Australian e-commerce summit, Prime Minister Scott Morrison praised technology adoption – rather than domestic innovation – as a means of driving economic returns.
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Putting energy consumers first
Ron Ben-David | December 9, 2020New proposals to improve Australia’s energy market at a time of unprecedented change should priorities the results for consumers.
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Art of the mind
Open Forum | December 9, 2020Artistic mediums such as visual art, music, dance and creative writing can help people recovering from mental health issues to share their stories and gain confidence and understanding of their illness.
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A replan for NAPLAN
Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh | December 8, 2020This has been a year of schools closing and a rapid switch to online learning. It’s also been a year with no NAPLAN, offering a chance to reassess how we monitor school performance.
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STEM superstars call for more gender and cultural diversity
Open Forum | December 8, 2020Australia’s official Superstars of STEM have backed the campaign to increase the number of women and ethnic minorities in science and technology.
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Threatened native plants in steep decline
Open Forum | December 8, 2020Australia’s threatened plants have declined by more than 70% in the last 20 years, due to continuing land-clearing and environmental destruction.
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W.W.Whistleblowing
Stephen McCombie | December 7, 2020The traditional divide between journalism and espionage has blurred, as has the boundary between the protection of national security, and the cover up of nefarious practices of politicians, tycoons, and bureaucrats.
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In praise of weeds
Ben Knight | December 7, 2020A weed is any plant which grows where we don’t want it, but they do have a bright side, even in Australia where foreign plants can choke natural landscapes.
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The unwinnable war
Shiro Armstrong | December 7, 2020China’s politically motivated trade war against Australia will harm both countries, but the downward spiral in relations is not irrecoverable – yet.
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Has Trumpism really been defeated?
Richard Ballout | December 6, 2020Despite the President’s election defeat, Trumpism is still firmly entrenched in the American political discourse, and there are no signs it will decline anytime soon.
