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Editor's note
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Summer 2016-17 is over, and it was a weird one: the hottest on record for a large chunk of Australia's southeast, while some western parts were relatively cool and wet. A new analysis reveals that our crazy summer did indeed bear the signature of climate change. The extreme heat seen in New South Wales was made 50 times more likely by humans' impact on the climate.
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Michael Hopkin
Environment + Energy Editor
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Top story
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Sydney’s summer was the hottest on record.
AAP Image/Dean Lewins
Andrew King, University of Melbourne; David Karoly, University of Melbourne; Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute ; Matthew Hale, UNSW; Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW
New South Wales has just had its hottest summer on record – an event that was made 50 times more likely by humans' impact on the climate.
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Politics + Society
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Mandy Wilson, Curtin University; Jocelyn Jones, Curtin University; Paul Simpson, UNSW; Tony Butler, UNSW
The majority of women in prison have committed minor, non-violent crimes. But a large number have committed violent offences such as assault, homicide and robbery.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull will overfly Western Australia twice next week, when he makes a brief dash to Indonesia to attend a conference of Indian Ocean Rim leaders.
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Ruth Balint, UNSW
There has been little recognition of how western governments furthered separation of families with disabled children, through immigration policies that ignored postwar humanitarian ideals.
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Shanaka Herath, University of Wollongong
Australia’s growing cities face a shortage of urban parks. Often, the provision of parks is seen only as planning compliance or an accessory.
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Health + Medicine
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Jonathan Karnon, University of Adelaide; Laura C Edney, University of Adelaide; Michael Sorich, Flinders University
Australia is spending more than A$500 million a year too much for pharmaceuticals because of a little known loophole that allows drug companies to overcharge the government.
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Patrick Harris, University of Sydney; Jennifer Kent, University of Sydney; Peter Sainsbury, University of Sydney
The health impacts of urban and regional planning are undisputed. So why did the NSW government adopt and then discard health objectives as part of state planning legislation?
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Business + Economy
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Louise Thornthwaite, Macquarie University
The obstacles workers face in successfully pursuing their entitlements and the inadequacy of our current penalties to deter underpayments means problems with franchises will remain.
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Kate Burridge, Monash University
When they start life, clichés are fetching and memorable phrases. But overuse has sucked them of vitality – and now they walk among the living dead.
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Arts + Culture
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Liz Conor, La Trobe University
What are we to make of 'Aboriginalia': bric-a-brac, tiles, ornaments and artworks - once hugely popular - depicting caricatures of Indigenous people? What if they are collected now in a knowing, ironic way?
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Sarah Attfield, University of Technology Sydney
Why do so many Australian TV dramas depict the lives of professionals when there is plenty of real drama for those living from one paycheck to the next?
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Science + Technology
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Steven L. Jones, UNSW
The new Joint Strike Fighter will make its first appearance before an Australian crowd this weekend. But how close to being operational is the new fighter aircraft?
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Haris Aziz, Data61
Kenneth Arrow, the Nobel prize winner who died last month, showed us there is no perfect voting rule. So how does his theory work?
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Featured events
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