By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Tackling traffic congestion is one of the biggest challenges facing large cities around the world. When it comes to reducing congestion, one solution almost instinctively comes to mind: build more roads or widen existing ones.
But the science of transport economics has shown for decades that increasing road capacity does not necessarily translate into smoother traffic. In fact, under certain conditions, it can do the opposite.
Here’s how it works.
A simple road network…
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By Ray Nickson, Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Justice, University of Newcastle
Last week, New Zealand Rugby began legal action in the High Court of New Zealand to protect the club name “Chiefs” against its use by the Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC).
The trademark dispute is over whether the Papua New Guinea expansion team in the National Rugby League (NRL) can use a club name already claimed by a Super Rugby team based in Hamilton, Waikato.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Two federal polls taken last week (Newspoll and Resolve) have gains for Labor and the Greens and drops for One Nation. The total One Nation and Coalition vote was 48% in both Newspoll and Resolve (down one in Newspoll and down three in Resolve).
I had expected Labor to be adversely affected by the Reserve Bank’s September 29 interest rate hike. Voters may be blaming Donald Trump and the Iran war more.
Seven weeks before the Victorian election…
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By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago
Winston Peters says New Zealand foreign policy should address “the world as it is, not how we wish it would be”. But how viable is that really?
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By Caitlin Macdonald, Researcher, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney
Amanda Curtin’s Six Days opens with a girl dying in a Paris cemetery in 1991, during one of the coldest winters the city has experienced in years. More than two decades later, another vulnerable figure emerges: Daniel Despard, an Australian expatriate, recovering alcoholic and building caretaker. His carefully regulated life is disrupted by the arrival of a young homeless girl.
What follows is a novel concerned with homelessness, addiction,…
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By Susan Thorp, Professor and Head of the Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University
A broker might be able to get you a competitive deal – but that doesn’t mean you can’t achieve a similar result on your own.
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By Christine Mary Hallinan, Senior Research Fellow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
We’re seeing what happens when consumer demand collides with commercial interests for drugs including GLP-1s, psychedelics and testosterone. It’s a huge shift.
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By Mike Lee, Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
If you had to pick the countries where invasive species pose the biggest problems, you probably wouldn’t think of Australia.
The continent has some of the world’s strictest biosecurity, a small human population and a comparatively short period of colonial occupation. It is also girt by sea. All of this should make introduced species less of an issue.
But Australia is one of the top three nations affected…
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By Viviana Wuthrich, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Macquarie University
Jessica Belcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University
The high-stakes nature of Year 12 exams can bring out sudden anxiety in the best of students.
You might have felt this before or during an assessment. Sometimes it feels like a rising panic in your chest. Other times it’s like your mind has gone blank and you can’t remember anything. These feelings can make it difficult to focus.
The key to good exam performance is learning to manage your anxiety.
We are clinical psychologists who research…
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By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
The second Moriori language week – ta wik’ a ta rē Moriori – celebrates the voices of a people whose rich culture and history were once nearly extinguished.
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