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How empathy can make or break a troll

  • Written by: Evita March, Lecturer of Psychology, Federation University Australia
imageTrolls tend to downplay the impact of their abusive online behaviour on their victims and seem to relish in the mayhem they cause. Let's use this to help them lift their game.from www.shutterstock.com

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran recently announced he had quit Twitter because he was sick of internet trolls.

While this high-profile example shows the...

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Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageAAP/Andrew Taylor

Many Australians are worried about the proliferation of data businesses and the government knowing too much about them.

Data Governance Australia chairman Graeme Samuel hopes that a self-regulatory code of conduct will raise the standards among data-driven organisations. Despite the pervasiveness of data in our daily lives, he...

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Network Ten's future is all about media power, not economics

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne

The future of Network Ten is not primarily about business or economics. It is primarily about power. Yet the formal processes the network’s proposed sale has to go through take no account of this reality.

At present there is an offer on the table from Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon. Until recently they were on the Ten board as chair and...

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Can property survive the great climate transition?

  • Written by: Louise Crabtree, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
imageProperty is under threat, physically and conceptually, from climate change..Martin./flickr, CC BY-ND

This is one of a series of articles to coincide with the 2017 Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne.


As we become an increasingly urban species, urban resilience is emerging as a big deal. The idea is generating a lot of noise about how to develop or...

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  1. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  2. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  3. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
  4. How many people can Australia feed?
  5. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  6. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  7. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  8. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  9. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  10. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  11. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  12. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  13. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  14. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  15. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  16. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  17. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  18. What actually is a good city?
  19. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  20. How we change the organisms that infect us
  21. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  22. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  23. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  24. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  25. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  26. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  27. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  28. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  29. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  30. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
  31. With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
  32. Donald Horne's 'lucky country' and the decline of the public intellectual
  33. How Australia's discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma
  34. Explainer: what can Tesla's giant South Australian battery achieve?
  35. All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness
  36. La Mama demonstrates the value of independent theatre
  37. Can you spare 5 minutes for The Conversation?
  38. More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap
  39. Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
  40. How we've evolved to fight the bugs that infect us
  41. Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
  42. How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
  43. Migrants are stopping regional areas from shrinking
  44. Delaying action on car emissions will make Australia more vulnerable
  45. A time capsule containing 118 trillion cubic feet of gas is buried in northern Australia
  46. Here’s looking at: Jim Dine's The mighty robe
  47. Turnbull's dilemma: we don't need a homeland security portfolio but Dutton wants a bone
  48. Disagreement within the Greens shows the price of doing politics differently
  49. What we miss when we focus on the gender wage gap
  50. Why comparing technology to drugs isn't simply a question of addiction

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