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Editor's note
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Four major disruptions of urban transport are under way. Three vehicle trends – towards autonomous, electric and shared cars – coincide with a push for higher-density living. Jake Whitehead and Michael Kane have modelled these trends to show that managing their interaction will be critical in shaping the cities of the not-too-distant future.
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John Watson
Section Editor: Cities + Policy
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Top story
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Four major disruptions of urban transport are set to transform city life, but exactly how remains uncertain.
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Jake Whitehead, The University of Queensland; Michael Kane, Curtin University
Self-driving, shared, electric vehicles and increasing urban density represent four disruptions that will transform city life. But a transport utopia isn't a guaranteed outcome of their interactions.
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Business + Economy
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Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania; Maria Massey, University of Tasmania; Oskaras Vorobjovas-Pinta, University of Tasmania
There's no evidence Airbnb is worsening housing affordability. Rather it empowers female hosts and promotes small businesses in remote communities.
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Sean Sands, Swinburne University of Technology; Michael Beverland, RMIT University
What is lacking is Myer's heritage, and the need for this to be carefully reframed and updated for the present day.
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Arts + Culture
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John Kinsella, Curtin University
On his bush block in the WA wheatbelt, poet John Kinsella attempts habitat restoration and reflects on the responsibilities of the writer as a witness to species loss.
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation
Today's episode of Essays On Air, the audio version of our Friday essay series, seeks to move beyond the view of ancient Australia as a timeless and traditional foundation story.
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Health + Medicine
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Jennifer Moore, UNSW
Litigation may sound like an obvious route for someone who experiences a medical injury. But it's a lengthy and stressful process, and rarely provides relief to patients and their families.
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Noushin Nasiri, University of Technology Sydney
The internet conspiracists are half right: most lights we have inside do emit UV, but not enough to harm us.
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Politics + Society
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Kathleen Daly, Griffith University
Australia's proposed redress scheme for victims of child sexual abuse is more complex, bigger, and includes more sites than any other.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
What changed? The story had gone from something potentially containable to a cluster bomb damaging the whole government, and presumably feeding into the next Newspoll.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull has announced that sexual relations between ministers and their staff will be prohibited.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
On Wednesday Barnaby Joyce shored up support within the Nationals to continue as leader, but on Thursday he was seriously on the back foot.
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Simon Tormey, University of Sydney
The protesters who took to the streets of Paris didn't know what they wanted: they just knew what they were against. But they did make us think that maybe there is another, better world.
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Environment + Energy
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Quentin Grafton, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; John Williams, Australian National University
New South Wales has pledged to walk away from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, while Victoria's water minister has declared the plan 'over'.
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Matthew Wright, UNSW; Mushfika Baishakhi Upama, UNSW
Solar windows would need to trap enough light to generate power, while letting through enough to keep buildings light. Thankfully, newly developed semitransparent cells offer to do just that.
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Science + Technology
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Jonathan Knott, University of Wollongong
Demand for energy storage is increasing – both in Australia and around the world. But issues with the production of lithium-ion batteries mean the search is on for alternatives.
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Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney; Prajwal Kafle, University of Western Australia
Bigger galaxies tend to dominate the smaller, when the two collide. But the pending battle between our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy might be a much fairer fight than we previously thought.
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Education
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Katherine J. McLachlan, University of South Australia
Tough-on-crime models of policing students don't reduce youth crime, but community engagement programs for at-risk youth can be beneficial.
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Winter Olympics 2018
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Jade Haycraft, Victoria University
Halfpipe snowboarders like Scotty James may seem laid-back and relaxed, but they are subjected to high physical load and fatigue induced by training and competition.
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