Analysis & Comment
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Microgrids: how to keep the power on when disaster hits
By Bjorn Sturmberg Australian National University BUSHFIRES, storms and floods regularly leave thousands of Australian homes and businesses without power. Sydney’s wettest weekend in three decades…
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How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?
By C Raina MacIntyre University of New South Wales Cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have increased dramatically over the past week, prompting concerns about how…
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So the government gave sports grants to marginal seats. What happens now?
By Maria O’Sullivan, Monash University WHEN Australians pay their income tax, they assume the money is going to areas of the community that need it, rather…
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Glyde: Murray-Darling Basin Plan crucial in drought
By Phillip Glyde IN recent weeks community voices have increasingly shared their experience of the major problem we are facing as a nation – drought.…
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Shepparton’s Commonwealth Games bid left us behind
MILDURA was always an afterthought in plans to bring the 2030 Commonwealth Games to regional Victoria. Until the bid was made public in April 2017,…