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Three charts on: Australia's declining homicide rates

  • Written by: Terry Goldsworthy, Assistant Professor in Criminology, Bond University
imageFirearms are not the main weapon of choice in homicides in Australia.AAP/Caroline Schelle

Australia’s overall homicide rate continues to decline: it has reached a historic low, according to newly published data.

Australia’s homicide rate is declining

Through its National Homicide Monitoring Program, the Australian Institute of Criminology...

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Canavan offers to fund gas exploration, but what do we get in return?

  • Written by: Michael West, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan is not only espousing a A$1 billion taxpayer leg-up for Indian coal magnate Gautam Adani to build a rail line but has now called for public money to be deployed for gas exploration in southeast Australia.

It is not as if Exxon and BHP, which operate offshore gas rigs in the Gippsland basin, or other big gas...

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Three charts on: the NBN and Australia’s digital divide

  • Written by: Ashley Schram, Research Fellow, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University

The National Broadband Network (NBN) is widely considered to be failing Australians, but it isn’t failing them equally.

Our research, undertaken at the Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity, seeks to address health inequities by looking at the geographical distribution of infrastructure, including digital...

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What Australia can learn from the New Zealand retirement system

  • Written by: Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
imageA comparison of the Australian and New Zealand retirement systems.Shutterstock

The Australian and New Zealand retirement systems both feature public pensions and private superannuation. But there are things to learn from the differences between the two systems. While Australians may end up with more savings in retirement, New Zealand’s system...

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  1. Taxing sugary drinks would boost productivity, not just health
  2. Grenfell Tower fire exposes the injustice of disasters
  3. As Harry Potter turns 20, let's focus on reading pleasure rather than literary merit
  4. Science journalism is in Australia’s interest, but needs support to thrive
  5. Australia's lobbying laws are inadequate, but other countries are getting it right
  6. Curious Kids: how can a tiny seed actually grow into a huge tree?
  7. New Zealand joins a growing global Conversation
  8. Australians shy away from Trump but strongly embrace the alliance: Lowy poll
  9. Government reaches out to Catholics on Gonski 2.0
  10. Labor takes a political risk and opposes government's tougher citizenship legislation
  11. Land clearing on the rise as legal 'thinning' proves far from clear-cut
  12. How the corporate veil is motivating misbehaviour and obscuring who should take the blame
  13. A human percussion section: The Idea of North with Kaichiro Kitamura
  14. Are China and the US destined for war?
  15. Income inequality exists in Australia, but the true picture may not be as bad as you thought
  16. What does DNA sound like? Using music to unlock the secrets of genetic code
  17. Research Check: can a new drug really protect redheads from cancer?
  18. We need to be cautious when assuming CCTV will prevent family violence
  19. We need our country; our country needs us
  20. Price hikes in Ether and Bitcoin aren't the signs of a bubble
  21. Government can support public interest journalism in Australia – here's how
  22. What we know, don’t know and suspect about what causes motor neuron disease
  23. The top five films of the Sydney Film Festival (and the rest)
  24. Free textbooks for first-year university students could help improve retention rates
  25. Why should the state wriggle out of providing public housing?
  26. Liberal backbenchers arc up on behalf of Catholic schools
  27. What’s in a name? Writing across borders of poetry and music
  28. Are heatwaves 'worsening' and have 'hot days' doubled in Australia in the last 50 years?
  29. Full response from the Climate Council for an article on heatwaves and hot days in Australia
  30. The last line of defence: Indigenous rights and Adani's land deal
  31. Science can be beautiful, but please don't call it basic
  32. Monitoring Build Times: Maintaining our Fast feedback Loop
  33. Blasphemy is still a crime in Australia – and it shouldn't be
  34. Three charts on: how part-time work is growing more slowly, but more men are doing it
  35. Newspoll steady at 53-47 to Labor. Macron's party wins French lower house elections
  36. Amazon poses a double threat to Australian retailers
  37. Emergency doctors are using acupuncture to treat pain, now here's the evidence
  38. A national amnesty will not rid Australia of violent gun crime
  39. The off-topic Conversation #125
  40. 'The way they manipulate people is really saddening': study shows the trade-offs in gig work
  41. Mixed media: how Australia's newspapers became locked in a war of left versus right
  42. Psychogeography: a way to delve into the soul of a city
  43. A quarter of kidney donors are living: what you need to know to be a donor
  44. At home with Emily Dickinson
  45. Your guide to solving the next online viral maths problem
  46. Only a mother could love 'em: why cockroaches and termites are great parents
  47. Fewer students are going to public secondary schools in Australia
  48. Will the Greens let the teachers' union bully them over schools funding?
  49. Twenty years after the handover, Hong Kong proves itself a headache for China
  50. Turnbull's Trump riff won't please The Donald but it could be a hit at home

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