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As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV

  • Written by: Anna Potter, Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow, Senior Lecturer Screen and Media Studies, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageKeanu Reeves and Lily Collins in To the Bone (2017), which follows a young woman struggling with an eating disorder. AMBI Group, Sparkhouse Media, Mockingbird Pictures

With storylines that encompass stalking, eating disorders, rape and suicide, Netflix dramas To the Bone and 13 Reasons Why have been accused of being harmful to their target...

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The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it

  • Written by: Troy S Barry, PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Western Australia

Half of all Australians are now able to connect to the NBN. But around 40% of eligible households have chosen not to connect to the network. Our modelling shows that subsidising the NBN is key to encouraging more Australians to connect. This would benefit the economy as a whole, but hurt the government’s plans to privatise the network.

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Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
imageCriminalising an entire industry because of isolated examples takes away choice from free-will participants based exclusively on the behaviour of abusers.Shutterstock

Although sex workers around the world lobby for decriminalisation, sex work law remains controversial. This article is part of a series exploring sex work and regulatory reform.

While...

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Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?

  • Written by: Timothy N. W. Jackson, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Melbourne
imageSssssssnakes and humansssssss make an ssssss noissssse in two totally different waysssssssss.Flickr/JanetandPhil, CC BY-ND

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!

How do snakes...

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  1. What a new map of the universe tells us about dark matter
  2. A closer look at jobless youth in Western Sydney points us to the solutions
  3. Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social
  4. Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance
  5. Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot
  6. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump
  7. Banks can't fight online credit card fraud alone, and neither can you
  8. Explainer: with no free vote for now, where next for marriage equality?
  9. Health Check: in terms of exercise, is walking enough?
  10. 'Mainstream' is not a dirty word
  11. Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage
  12. Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
  13. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  14. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia
  15. This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush
  16. Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV
  17. Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else
  18. When dinosaurs walked the Earth they moved like modern birds
  19. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  20. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  21. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  22. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach
  23. Explainer: what is silicosis and why is this old lung disease making a comeback?
  24. The Conversation's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism
  25. Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
  26. Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'
  27. Man flu is real, but women get more autoimmune diseases and allergies
  28. Our healthcare records outlive us. It's time to decide what happens to the data once we're gone.
  29. Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
  30. A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
  31. Living blanket, water diviner, wild pet: a cultural history of the dingo
  32. Australia doesn't 'get' the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders
  33. How a charter of rights could protect Australians' fundamental freedoms
  34. Liberals face crunch on marriage as Coalition behind in 17th consecutive Newspoll
  35. Poor households are locked out of green energy, unless governments help
  36. Queensland Galaxy 51-49 to Labor, but Palaszczuk's ratings slump
  37. Allegations against the CBA show the need for a Royal Commission into the banks
  38. NAPLAN results show it isn’t the basics that are missing in Australian education
  39. Trump-Turnbull call: trading people like pawns undermines the goals of international co-operation
  40. The dangers of leaving home: UK WannaCry ransomware hero arrested in the US
  41. Bottom of the canal: Pfizer's billion-dollar tax ploy
  42. Turnbull's promise to Trump: 'You can count on me'
  43. Climate change to blame for Australia's July heat
  44. Transcript of Trump-Turnbull call shows just how hard it'll be to deal with the president
  45. Another attack on the Bureau, but top politicians have stopped listening to climate change denial
  46. Why anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking
  47. Country rules: the ‘splinternet’ may be the future of the web
  48. The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there's too much at stake
  49. Five quotes from the Turnbull-Trump call show the folly of Australia's refugee policy
  50. Greg Hunt's plan to reduce hospital admissions won't work if he can't measure successes and failures

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