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Amid blackout scare stories, remember that a grid without power cuts is impossible… and expensive

August 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

Dylan McConnell, University of Melbourne Last Friday the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) released its annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities. This was widely [...]

Blame game rages as Culleton quits Pauline Hanson’s One Nation

December 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Biting insults have been exchanged as Western Australian senator Rod Culleton splits from Pauline Hanson, ahead of the High Court [...]

More boys are diagnosed with cancer than girls worldwide – why?

December 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Yavuz Anacak, Ege University Like most things, cancer diagnosis is not equal for men and women. In adults, sexual hormones, dietary habits, exposure to carcinogens, smoking [...]

Australian companies have more work to do on tax transparency

September 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Roman Lanis, University of Technology Sydney and Ross McClure, University of Technology Sydney A number of big Australian companies have started to publicly release tax [...]

What’s behind Indonesian authorities’ desire to control LGBT sexuality?

September 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dédé Oetomo, Universitas Airlangga Indonesia’s LGBT community has been weathering “unprecedented attacks” through hateful public comments by top public officials [...]

Gonzo: we need to talk about young men and porn

September 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bianca Fileborn, La Trobe University Young men’s use of pornography has been the focus of considerable debate, if not anxiety and moral panic, in recent years. Recent [...]

Turkey struggles to make sense of a surreal, failed coup d’état

July 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University After the recent Ataturk airport bombings, I wrote that Turkey is “a country with serious deficiencies in democracy, governance, the [...]

How men and women can help reduce gender bias in the workplace

July 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Emma Johnston, UNSW Australia I am a professor and a newly minted pro vice chancellor and I have spent my entire research and working life with male bosses or supervisors. I [...]

Cheerleaders of the press don’t win elections like they used to

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Denis Muller, University of Melbourne The Murdoch press played its self-assigned role of shamelessly cheerleading for the conservatives in the election. But is Rupert’s [...]

Infographic: what we know so far about the results of Election 2016

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Infographic: what we know so far about the results of Election 2016 Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; Fron Jackson-Webb, The Conversation; Michael Courts, The Conversation, [...]

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