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Editor's note
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A little over a week from now the government will unveil its plans to improve housing affordability in the federal budget. The property market has been central to any discussions about the Australian economy of late, so we asked five experts what it would take to tip it over the edge. Their answers show it's a complex problem, and one the government is unlikely to solve alone.
And on another note, former director of TV at the ABC, Kim Dalton, will launch an essay tomorrow in which he laments the ABC's lack of cultural leadership and transparency. As Dalton writes here, the problem lies with an inadequate Charter, a lack of governance and a poor relationship with the independent production sector.
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Jenni Henderson
Editor, Business and Economy
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Top story
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The Conversation
Wes Mountain, The Conversation; Jenni Henderson, The Conversation
There’s been quite a bit of speculation over whether Australia has a property market bubble - where house prices are over-inflated compared to a benchmark - and when it might burst. According to housing…
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Arts + Culture
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Kim Dalton, University of the Sunshine Coast
The ABC is dragging its heels in providing new Australian content to audiences, due to a lack of governance, an inadequate Charter and its poor relationship with the independent production sector.
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Anita Pisch, Australian National University
Van Gogh's immersion in the natural world, for his art and for its therapeutic effects, saw him observe in minute detail the changing of the seasons.
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Health + Medicine
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Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute
Extra funding to GPs from lifting the Medicare Rebate freeze should be used to buy better data, so that future reform can be based on sound evidence.
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Sharyn Burns, Curtin University
While there are some some safety concerns about watching the show, 13 Reasons Why raises many issues relevant to adolescents – and we should learn from them.
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Politics + Society
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Courtney A Landers, University of Cambridge
All the awareness campaigns have had little effect on the 'garden variety' mental illness that’s causing most of the disability and death.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra; Nicholas Klomp, University of Canberra
Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will have his first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump in New York.
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Cities
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Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology; Mirko Guaralda, Queensland University of Technology
Smart cities are usually optimised like a business for speed and efficiency. Placemaking can slow down cities to improve health and wellbeing and promote more democratic engagement of citizens.
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Education
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Kei Nishiyama, University of Canberra
The changes required of a textbook that referred to a bakery – an “inappropriate” form of Japanese culture – illustrate how the system falls short of its goals of deliberative and critical education.
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Science + Technology
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Cathal D. O'Connell, University of Melbourne
How far would you go to better your life, to live longer, to beat death? And how much can technology help us in that quest?
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Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia; Sarath Wijeratne, University of Western Australia
Oceanographers say they have the "credible new information" authorities need to resume the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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Environment + Energy
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Ivan Nagelkerken, University of Adelaide; Sean Connell, University of Adelaide; Silvan Goldenberg, University of Adelaide
A new study suggests the benefits of a boost to marine plant growth from increased carbon dioxide will be cancelled out by the increased stress to fish species.
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Michael Hopkin, The Conversation; Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation
A survey of leading economists gave a mixed, and overall negative, view on Malcolm Turnbull's plan to force gas producers to divert exports back into the Australian domestic market.
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Business + Economy
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The government has ordered the Productivity Commission to review how the GST revenue is sliced up, setting the scene for a new round of hostilities between states over what they get from the tax.
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Pascalis Raimondos, Queensland University of Technology; Sara L. McGaughey, Griffith University
The Trump tax cut will create new investment in America, but at the expense of countries like Australia
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Diane Kraal, Monash University
Local communities are likely to be dissatisfied with the report from the PRRT review because its recommendations only apply to future projects and won't herald any changes in the budget.
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