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Editor's note
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It won’t come as a shock to hear that Australians pay quite a lot for electricity. But astonishingly – given the sheer volume of political and media attention on this issue – Australian’s power bills are significantly underreported by official sources.
Australia’s energy prices have been ranked as 11th among OECD countries by the International Energy Agency, which works off data supplied by each member nation. But the Agency ranking is only as good as the information supplied and, as Bruce Mountain writes, some Australian households are paying up to 25% more than reported. In fact, if South Australia was a country its typical household would be paying the highest price in the OECD.
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Madeleine De Gabriele
Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment
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Top story
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Power price pain is worse than we thought.
AAP Image/Paul Miller
Bruce Mountain, Victoria University
Officially, Australia's average electricity prices are the 11th highest in the OECD. But a look at the numbers suggests this is a significant underestimate.
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Environment + Energy
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John Woinarski, Charles Darwin University; Brett Murphy, Charles Darwin University; Leigh-Ann Woolley, Charles Darwin University; Sarah Legge, Australian National University; Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University; Tim Doherty, Deakin University
For the first time, researchers have estimated the toll taken by feral and pet cats on Australia's bird life - and the numbers are high enough to push several species towards extinction.
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Gisela Kaplan, University of New England
Magpies have long memories, and human behaviour towards them largely determines how they respond
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
East coast gas exporters on Tuesday signed a formal agreement with the government to offer enough gas to meet to expected shortfalls.
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Politics + Society
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Michael Hamel-Green, Victoria University
With much attention focused on military might and economic sanctions, there has been little focus on calls for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis.
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Henry Giroux, McMaster University
Donald Trump seems to have a passion for cruelty, often publicly celebrating his investment in violence as a source of pleasure. Those tendencies represent symptoms of a broader American sickness.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull this week is pushing for a further toughening of national security laws.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The same-sex marriage postal ballot is headed for a very high return rate, with an estimated 9.2 million forms returned by last Friday.
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Merryn Sherwood, La Trobe University
The new wave of athlete-to-fan digital products will be faced with a few challenges if they are to be successful.
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Cities
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Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology; Graham Currie, Monash University; Md. Kamruzzaman, Queensland University of Technology
It's clear autonomous vehicles will disrupt our cities, their land use and planning. Whether they make urban life better or worse depends on how well we anticipate and adapt to their impacts.
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Science + Technology
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Alice Gorman, Flinders University
We've all seen videos of satellites being blasted off into space - but once they're locked in orbit around the earth, how do we bring them back down?
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Eric Thrane, Monash University; Paul Lasky, Monash University; Yuri Levin, Monash University
The 2017 Nobel prize for physics was awarded to scientists who helped pioneer the discovery of gravitational waves. Australia is playing an important role in gravitational-wave astronomy.
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Arts + Culture
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Phoebe Hart, Queensland University of Technology
While many people may see the term "fag hag" a slur, women have long been allies of gay men, and it now might be time to reclaim the word.
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Christopher Pollard, Deakin University
Around 1970 Playboy magazine received an unexpected proposition from the radical German philosopher Herbert Marcuse - he would do an interview, if he could pose for the magazine's centrefold.
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Health + Medicine
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Carissa Bonner, University of Sydney; Ben Newell, UNSW
We're being 'nudged' to make good health choices every day. But who decides what's best? And what happens when we don't agree?
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Tamsyn Van Rheenen, University of Melbourne
One person with a given diagnosis can be entirely different, symptomatically speaking, from another with the same diagnosis.
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Sally Ferguson, CQUniversity Australia
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
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Business + Economy
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Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University
Research doesn't back up calls for more corporate tax cuts. But there are areas for the government to move to spur foreign investment.
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