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Bursting our housing bubble
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Are we in a housing bubble or aren’t we? Economists may disagree on this but economic theory has a lot to say about the price hikes and consumer behaviour that define bubbles. Timo Henckel explains that when it comes to starting housing bubbles, we’ve only got ourselves to blame.
Also today some news about The Conversation. On Friday the acting chairman of our board, Joe Skrzynski, announced
that Andrew Jaspan, co-founder and editor, is resigning to take up a new position at RMIT. Andrew leaves behind a legacy of extraordinary achievement: he created The Conversation and put together the team that turned it into a global media network, with sites in the UK, US, Africa, and France, as well as a Global operation and more launches imminent. The senior managers who joined Andrew to launch and build TC will now continue this work, led by Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Watts, and me.
We wish Andrew all the best in his new role.
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Misha Ketchell
Managing Editor
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Top story
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Rapid rise of Australian house prices have created disagreement between economists on whether a housing bubble currently exists.
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Timo Henckel, Australian National University
Economists struggle to agree on when and where housing bubbles occur, but bubbles all have similar characterisitics.
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Politics + Society
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Wendy Steele, RMIT University; Karen Hussey, The University of Queensland; Stephen Dovers, Australian National University
Critical infrastructure is our means of survival as an urban species. So, we must identify what is critical, for whom and how it might fail us.
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Piers Gooding, University of Melbourne
Think it's hard for first-home buyers? Ask people with an intellectual disability about it.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra; Deep Saini, University of Canberra
As the Senate returned on Friday, the fate of the government's ten-year company tax package was still up in the air.
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Danielle Logue, University of Technology Sydney
Impact investments are designed to achieve a measurable social or environmental – as well as financial – return.
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Science + Technology
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Mark Blaskovich, The University of Queensland
The periodic table is one of the classic images of science that is found in labs as well as on t-shirts, mugs, even set to music. But what exactly is the periodic table?
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Adnene Guabtni, Data61
We have never been so connected and we are producing more data than ever before. But how can we manage our data effectively while making sure it remains safe?
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Education
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Andrew Harvey, La Trobe University
There are already signs of this happening in Australia, but research from overseas reveals few benefits.
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Brendon Hyndman, Southern Cross University
Bad weather conditions often force schools to make unplanned closures.
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Environment + Energy
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Michael Howes, Griffith University
Why, after decades of international agreements, are we still damaging the environment? New research, looking at dozens of unsuccessful policies, has uncovered the basic elements of failure.
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Health + Medicine
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Wendy van Zuijlen, UNSW
We can prevent congenital deafness and intellectual disability due to cytomegalovirus by simple hygiene measures. So, why don't pregnant women know about this?
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Lindsay Wu, UNSW
The true promise of ageing research is that rather than tackling individual diseases one at a time, a single drug to treat ageing would treat all of the diseases that arise in old age, at once.
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Arts + Culture
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Elizabeth Hale, University of New England
American Gods imagines a US where ancient gods exist at "right angles to reality", asking why we have mythologies and why we need them.
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Business + Economy
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John Buchanan, University of Sydney
Employer groups are calling for a cut in real wages for low paid workers, but this would only exacerbate current problems.
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Bruce Mountain, Victoria University
The charge for retailing electricity in Australia compares poorly other deregulated markets in Europe
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