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Editor's note
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A loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility to the controversial Adani mine could still go ahead, even with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s announcement that she will veto it.
It’s a little technical but as Brendan Gogarty explains, while in caretaker mode the Palaszczuk government can’t block the loan without the support of the state opposition.
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Jenni Henderson
Section Editor: Business + Economy
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Brendan Gogarty, University of Tasmania
Despite Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's veto of a loan to Adani, the company could still receive funds from a new government or via previous arrangements.
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Cities
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Amanda Tattersall, University of Sydney
We rarely see residents of a city successfully push back in defence of their needs against the power of finance capital, which seeks to make money from the city. But Barcelona shows it can be done.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Under the government's plan, MPs will have to state within 21 days of the resolutions being passed in their respective houses,
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Science + Technology
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Toby Walsh, Data61
Leading experts in AI and robotics want the Prime Ministers of Australia and Canada to join the growing campaign to ban killer robots.
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Rose Ahlefeldt, Australian National University
Rare earth elements aren't actually that rare - but they certainly are useful. Erbium is used right now in the internet's optical fibre network, and could one day be applied in quantum networks.
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Arts + Culture
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Rachel Franks, University of Newcastle
Once typecast as 'bad' or 'good' in true crime tales, women are now more likely to be presented as complex figures in them. And many more women are writing true crime themselves.
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Education
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Chelsea Harry, University of the Sunshine Coast
There a number of ways you can use music to shape your child's brain for success, from 16 weeks gestation right up until they start school.
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Health + Medicine
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Diana Lucia, The University of Queensland; Karen Moritz, The University of Queensland
Research is increasingly finding an association between alcohol consumption and sperm health.
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Janet Davies, Queensland University of Technology; Francis Thien, Monash University; Mark Hew, Monash University
What you should be doing this thunderstorm asthma season.
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Business + Economy
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Jason Potts, RMIT University; Marie-Anne Cam, RMIT University
The introduction of Bitcoin futures contracts will remove a lot of the financial risk associated with the cryptocurrency.
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Ronen Palan, City, University of London
Unlike the Panama Papers, the latest leak shines a light on the elites of the offshore world.
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Tony Jaques, RMIT University
In the wake of the Vegas shooting, the NRA has turned the public's attention away from the core issue of banning guns by using a business strategy called issue management.
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Environment + Energy
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Lisa Heinze, University of Sydney
Iconic Stan Smiths can be styled with almost anything, but most white sneakers are costly to the environment. Lucky for us, there are many sustainable alternatives that are just as cool.
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Andrew King, University of Melbourne; David Karoly, University of Melbourne
This year is poised to go down as the hottest non-El Niño year ever recorded, with record low polar ice and extreme weather that left many regions battling bushfires and hurricanes.
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Matthew Paterson, University of Manchester; Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
And one thing that probably will, but won't make much difference.
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Colin Groves, Australian National University; Anton Nurcayho, Australian National University
A group of fewer than 800 orangutans in northern Sumatra has been recognised as a new species - and they are already under threat from deforestation.
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James Norman, The Conversation
The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board of management has this week announced that tourists will be banned from climbing Uluru from 2019. Sammy Wilson, chairman of the park board, explains why.
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