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Editor's note
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison was a no-show at a UN climate summit held in New York on Monday night, even though he was in the US at the time.
But despite our federal government’s somewhat timid approach to climate change action, Australia’s renewable energy industry has been growing at a cracking pace. Australia is the runaway world leader in installing new renewable energy capacity, building at a rate ten times the global average.
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Madeleine De Gabriele
Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment
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Top stories
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Large scale wind farms are driving Australia’s renewable energy generation.
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Matthew Stocks, Australian National University; Andrew Blakers, Australian National University; Ken Baldwin, Australian National University
Australia is installing renewable energy at more than ten times the global average. This is excellent news, but raises serious questions about integrating this electricity into our grids.
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Johnathan Van Ness (far right) has won fans from his warm persona on Queer Eye.
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Jennifer Power, La Trobe University; Graham Brown, La Trobe University
The Queer Eye star coming out as HIV positive and the changing face of HIV is an encouraging story about the way stigma is shifting. But we still have work to do.
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Lobbyists try to water down policies that could restrict the public’s access to their harmful products.
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Peter Miller, Deakin University; Gary Sacks, Deakin University; Narelle Robertson, Deakin University
The steady flow of politicians and government staffers switching sides to lobby for powerful food, alcohol and gambling companies is a threat to public health.
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Social media giants such as Facebook have been blamed for helping spread misinformation. But the problem runs deeper than that.
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Will J Grant, Australian National University; Rod Lamberts, Australian National University
Every day, new "alternative facts" are peddled in the public realm. But misinformation is not solely a modern problem - its origins are as old as humanity.
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Science + Technology
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Martin Bush, University of Melbourne; Alex O. Holcombe, University of Sydney; Bonnie Claire Wintle, University of Melbourne; Fiona Fidler, University of Melbourne; Simine Vazire, University of California, Davis
Across science, only around half of published results can be successfully replicated. But while this is a serious problem, the proposed public audit looks like a political bid to cast doubt on science.
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Business + Economy
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Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney
The phoney debate about corporate activism distracts from the need for a debate about inequality.
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Politics + Society
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Andrew Fisher, University of Melbourne
Independent observers will be on board the ships exporting live sheep to keep an eye on animal welfare.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Anthony Albanese has attacked Scott Morrison for sending a message to Beijing while in the United State, opening a partisan rift at a time when Australia-China relations are at a low point.
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Terese Henning, University of Tasmania
Controversy from the #LetHerSpeak campaign has surrounded this Tasmanian so-called 'gag law'. Here's why it was set up in the first place.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Last week, Michelle Grattan moderated a very special discussion with the daughters of Menzies and Calwell at Parliament House. This podcast episode is a recording of that event.
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Health + Medicine
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Samuel Clack, Victoria University of Wellington; Tony Ward, Victoria University of Wellington
Understanding of depression has advanced significantly since the first diagnostic criteria were introduced in the 1980s, but we still lack clear consensus on how this mental disorder should be explained.
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Barbara Mintzes, University of Sydney; Agnes Vitry, University of South Australia
National drug regulators use evidence from clinical trials to decide whether new cancer drugs will be approved for use. But these studies are often flawed.
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Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University; Cathrine Fowler, University of Technology Sydney; Virginia Schmied, Western Sydney University
Almost one in three new mothers report severe problems getting their baby to sleep and settle. Every baby is different but some women are more likely to struggle – here's why.
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Arts + Culture
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Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia
This searing new comics anthology edited by Diane Noomin shows us stories of sexual violence, harassment and – most critically – survival.
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Environment + Energy
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Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland
The summit was supposed to get global climate action back on track. But despite a few bright spots, the urgent action needed to avoid a climate catastrophe looks a long way off.
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Ken Doust, Southern Cross University
The Australian landscape is very old and the soils in inland areas can be very fragile.
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Featured jobs
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Charles Sturt University — Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
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University of Melbourne — Parkville, Victoria
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Featured events
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RD Watt Seminar Room, RD Watt Building, City Road, University of Sydney , Camperdown , New South Wales, 2006, Australia — University of Sydney
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Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square, 727 Collins Street,, Docklands, Victoria, 3008, Australia — Deakin University
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State Library Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, 179 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia — La Trobe University
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Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia — University of Sydney
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