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Sporting codes' deals with gambling companies force them into a Faustian bargain

  • Written by Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
imageSports betting has become a high-profile part of the rugby league's income and branding.Karl Monaghan, CC BY-NC-SA

In 2014-15, Australians gambled nearly A$7.2 billion on sports betting (not including racing), in the process losing around $815 million. Sports betting is certainly a growth market in Australia.

Most professional sporting codes have...

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Friday essay: reading Germaine Greer's mail

  • Written by Lachlan Glanville, Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, University of Melbourne
imagePenny Gulliver wrote to Germaine Greer several times over two decadesUniversity of Melbourne Archives, Germaine Greer Archive, 2014.0042.00350, Correspondence with Penny Gulliver

Between 1968 and 1969, ensconced in London’s legendary bohemian flophouse The Pheasantry, Germaine Greer wrote a book that would change thousands of womens’...

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Capital gains tax concession is too generous: economists poll

  • Written by Maria Yanotti, Lecturer of Economics and Finance Tasmanian School of Business & Economics, University of Tasmania

As the federal budget approaches, the government is grappling with ways to enhance housing affordability, including reforming the current 50% capital gains tax (CGT) deduction on property investment.

The Economics Society of Australia (ESA) Monash Forum polled economists on this proposition:

Capital gains tax deductions for housing investment should...

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What languages should children be learning to get ahead?

  • Written by Warren Midgley, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southern Queensland
imageThe languages children learn in school might not be the most useful for their future. from www.shutterstock.com

There are 7,099 known languages in the world today. Choosing which of these to teach our children as a second language is an important decision, but one that may be based more on feelings than facts.

There are several different ways of...

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  1. Australia could alleviate its youth justice crisis by importing the right ideas from the US
  2. Painkillers like ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart disease and should be restricted
  3. Vital Signs: if it looks like a bubble and sounds like a bubble...
  4. Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them
  5. How we edit science part 5: so what is science?
  6. Grattan on Friday: Barnaby Joyce is telling the government to listen to politics in the pub
  7. The metapolitical long game of the European New Right
  8. Let me entertain you – that's how to get a science message across
  9. Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind
  10. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  11. Research suggests motherhood has changed my brain.
  12. How 19th century fairy tales expressed anxieties about ecological devastation
  13. FactCheck Q A: Has confidence in the media in Australia dropped lower than in the United States?
  14. Despite escalating prescriptions, nerve pain drug offers no relief for sciatica
  15. Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on union misconduct
  16. Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
  17. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  18. NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing
  19. Flying into uncertainty: Western Sydney's 'aerotropolis' poses more questions than answers
  20. Here's how much it would cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family with mental illness
  21. It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality
  22. 'Empowerment' feminism is not working – we need a far more radical approach to gender equality
  23. Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?
  24. Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains
  25. How we edit science part 4: how to talk about risk, and words and images not to use
  26. The US just made flying harder for millions. Tips for dealing with the laptop ban
  27. National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
  28. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  29. Western Australia's welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
  30. Swisse cheese: there are too many holes in complementary medicine regulations already
  31. Film review: A Plastic Ocean shows us a world awash with rubbish
  32. Commercialise my footy: how the AFL's grip on the game shrinks the fans' role
  33. You can't rely on fish oil supplements in pregnancy to make your children smarter
  34. Proposed changes may confuse rather than clarify the meaning of Section 18C
  35. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  36. Trump's credibility takes a hit as FBI finds no evidence of Obama 'wiretap'
  37. How to reduce dependency on drugs like Valium with alternative therapies
  38. How electric cars can help save the grid
  39. How we edit science part 3: impact, curiosity and red flags
  40. In a miserable year, the Adelaide Festival brought us joy
  41. Conservatives have captured Turnbull for culture war crusade
  42. Coalition rebounds in Newspoll following Snowy announcement, but Essential moves to Labor
  43. Section 18C change appears doomed in Senate
  44. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
  45. How healthy soils make for a healthy life
  46. After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain
  47. To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with
  48. Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses
  49. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  50. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance

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