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Being exploited and breaching your visa: the limited choices of the food delivery worker

  • Written by: Caleb Goods, Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia
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Some of the most vulnerable workers in the Australian labour market are squeezed between a rock and a hard place.

You can never do your homework, you are so tired and you just think about how to cook the next meal and sleeping, that is your life.

This international student, also works as a food delivery worker. He’s a gig worker, which means...

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Curious Kids: Why do we count to 10?

  • Written by: Daniel Mansfield, Associate Lecturer in Mathematics, UNSW
imageNature gave us ten fingers, so it makes sense to count to ten. But what happens when we run out of fingers?Flickr/Bethan, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!


Why do...

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As Australia becomes less religious, our parliament becomes more so

  • Written by: Jonathan D James, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
imageChristianity’s effect on Australian politics is far from waning.Jonathan James, Author provided

In a nation that is increasingly secular, religion still plays a vital role in the way we run our country. In this series, we examine the role of religion in Australian politics and education.


Even though the 2016 Census revealed that more than 30%...

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