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Editor's note
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Two reports released this week warn of an impending gas shortage, and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is considering pulling the trigger on export restrictions. As Andrew Hopkins writes, it’s an intervention of last resort for a governing party built on free-market principles – and reveals the absence of a long-term, light-touch energy plan.
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Madeleine De Gabriele
Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment
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Top story
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Sections of pipes are lined up ready for use in the construction of a coal seam gas pipeline.
REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
Andrew Hopkins, Australian National University
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has blamed gas exports for rising energy costs, breaking with a party room determined to find renewables guilty.
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Arts + Culture
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Caitlin Mahar, Swinburne University of Technology
For centuries, in Western societies, 'euthanasia' referred to a pious death, blessed by God. The pain that could accompany dying was seen as punishment for sin and ultimately redemptive.
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Chari Larsson, Griffith University
The Ecstasy of St Teresa is the point of departure for a new exhibition examining ecstasy in all its guises, from the sexual to the spiritual to the banal.
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Politics + Society
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
Of the four concessions One Nation won from the government in the latest media reforms, one has the potential to seriously threaten the public broadcaster.
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Keith Rathbone, Macquarie University
Donald Trump’s ill-timed comments on protests by America's elite athletes have given legitimacy to claims of his racial animus.
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Cities
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Hal Pawson, UNSW; Oliver Frankel, University of Technology Sydney
Unaffordable housing and homelessness are burning issues. Policymaking has suffered from a critical lack of data and expert input since the National Housing Supply Council was axed in 2013.
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Health + Medicine
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Jeffrey Craig, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; Pamela Leong, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; Toby Hughes, University of Adelaide
Can you blame bad teeth on your genes? Here's why the answer is not as simple as you might think.
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Christopher Gyngell, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford
A landmark study in the UK discovered the gene that allows cells to form into embryos. If Australian researchers attempted this they could go to jail for 15 years.
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Science + Technology
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Graeme Orr, The University of Queensland
Most people have probably already made up their mind which way to vote in the same sex marriage postal survey. But the recent SMS campaign may distract some from even voting.
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Alex Held, CSIRO
Australia will be able to guide the Earth observation satellite "NovaSAR" as it passes over our region - giving us a new level of control over the data we need to solve local problems.
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Business + Economy
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Agustin Chevez, Swinburne University of Technology; DJ Huppatz, Swinburne University of Technology
The popularity of the corporate campus over the past fifty years suggests the form is here to stay.
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