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Pacific Island Project wins United Nations Award
Jessica Purbrick-Herbst | November 6, 2015The United Nations has recognised the ‘Mapping Exposure to Sea Level Rise in the Pacific Islands’ Project as a leading initiative dealing with climate change. Jessica Purbrick-Herbst from CRC for Spatial Information explains.
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Climate change conference: teamwork or tug-of-war?
Megan Bonetti | November 3, 2015We live in a globalised world, and therefore climate change is also a social justice issue. Australian social worker Megan Bonetti, volunteering in India, reports from a developing country having to figure out how to go green on the cheap.
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What did the Bonn climate negotiations indicate about Paris?
Erwin Jackson | November 2, 2015Just over a month before the COP21, climate negotiations in Bonn were heated. So what does this mean about the level of success we could expect from the conference in Paris, where the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol is to be produced? Erwin Jackson, Deputy CEO of The Climate Institute, explains.
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Creating a profitable future for Australia
Grant Wardell-Johnson | November 2, 2015Australia needs more multi-national companies based here, argues KPMG’s Grant Wardell-Johnson, and their focus needs to be squarely on Asia.
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Are you in?
editor | November 2, 2015In the last weekend of November, on the eve of the United Nations climate summit, people will gather in Australian cities and walk alongside millions of people in cities around the world to show that they want an end to fossil fuels and a transition to renewable energy.
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Privacy@Work
editor | November 2, 2015iappANZ is hosting a Privacy Summit on 18 November in Melbourne. Key themes are metadata, new technologies and privacy impacts, the politics of privacy and managing privacy.
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Understand the digital landscape
editor | November 1, 2015GovInnovate takes place in Canberra from 24 to 26 November 2015. In this public sector conference attendants hear the latest in service design, digital delivery and security. Its aim is to help government agencies along their digital transformation journey.
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Solar is good for humanity
Petra Liverani | October 30, 2015Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott declared while in office that coal was “good for humanity” and current Resources Minister Josh Frydenberg recently echoed the sentiment. Petra Liverani explains why renewable energy makes much more economic, environmental and democratic sense.
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Australia as an innovation hub
Peter Fritz | October 30, 2015It is crucial that the government and we as communities adapt to coming changes. Peter Fritz explains why we need to plan today with tomorrow in mind.
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Australia’s apathy could wipe the Great from our Barrier Reef
Sherryl Caulfield | October 28, 2015Scientists claim that if the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland will be built, it will devastate our climate, our Great Barrier Reef and groundwater. Sherryl Caulfield urges us to protest where we can and act now before it’s too late.
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Welcome back carbon pricing
Kevin Parton | October 28, 2015Back in 2008, Labor and the Coalition agreed that an emissions trading scheme (ETS) was the appropriate policy to reduce green house gases. We are now on a trajectory where both will once again be in agreement. Kevin Parton explains why.
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E-cigarettes – more than a health issue
Ian A. Maxwell | October 26, 2015In Australia one can’t legally buy e-cigarette liquids containing nicotine. Ian A. Maxwell explores the arguments for and against e-cigarettes.
