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How to cut Australia's $48 billion crime bill

  • Written by Rick Sarre, Professor of Law, University of South Australia
imagePolice training is crucial to crime prevention.Shutterstock

Crime costs Australia almost A$48 billion per year. In anyone’s language, that is a public cost that needs to be addressed urgently. Fortunately, we now have an abundance of research findings that tell us how we can do that.

It is disappointing that there has not been any decrease in...

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The off-topic Conversation #118

  • Written by Debbie Dickinson, Head of audience engagement, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Why the free market hasn't slashed power prices (and what to do about it)

  • Written by Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute

The energy sector was supposed to be the showcase for privatisation and market deregulation. Yet in 2017, this premise is being sorely tested – no more so than in electricity retailing, where competition has failed to deliver on its promise of lower prices for customers.

The latest Grattan Institute report, Price shock: Is the retail...

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Extreme weather likely behind worst recorded mangrove dieback in northern Australia

  • Written by Penny van Oosterzee, Principal Research Adjunct James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University

One of the worst instances of mangrove forest dieback ever recorded globally struck Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria in the summer of 2015-16. A combination of extreme temperatures, drought and lowered sea levels likely caused this dieback, according to our investigation published in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research.

The dieback,...

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  1. There's cause for celebration and concern in how Australians are giving to charity
  2. Infographic: a snapshot of charities and giving in Australia
  3. Parents shouldn't rely on My School data when choosing a school for their child
  4. The future of online advertising is big data and algorithms
  5. Seven things to keep in mind if you're going to March for Science
  6. Extinction or survival: how storytellers explore the ethics of colonising other planets
  7. Prisoners are excluded from the NDIS – here's why it matters
  8. Gas crisis? Or glut? Why Japan pays less for Australian LNG than Australians do
  9. Julie Bishop sends sharp message to China about democracy
  10. The Cherry Blossom Uprising: Monitory Democracy in Korea
  11. New skulls from China have scientists and the media in a muddle
  12. Women troll on dating apps just as often as men
  13. Contested spaces: 'virtuous drivers, malicious cyclists' mindset gets us nowhere
  14. Why we're wasting money on medical tests and how behavioural insights can help
  15. One Nation's preference deal in the WA election comes back to bite it
  16. Dr Google probably isn't the worst place to get your health advice
  17. A murky cauldron – modern witchcraft and the spell on Trump
  18. How Facebook and Google changed the advertising game
  19. The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability
  20. Turnbull's refusal to rule out preferencing Hanson raises questions about the 'real Malcolm'
  21. The Conversation's FactCheck granted accreditation by International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter
  22. Labor wins WA in a landslide as One Nation fails to land a blow
  23. Labor romps to landslide win in WA election
  24. Labor very likely to win WA election as One Nation slumps
  25. Our gas market hits the red zone , as predicted
  26. Vale Bill Leak: a satirist who played hard and took no prisoners
  27. Banning foreign political donations won't fix all that ails our system
  28. Companies should stick to the standards to avoid misleading investors
  29. New law will force some (but not all) organisations to reveal data breaches
  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Western Australian election
  31. Goodbye glamour-puss and rugged hero: smokers lose brand identity with plain cigarette packaging
  32. So long, Climate Institute – too sensible for the current policy soap opera
  33. Contested spaces: living off the edge in a city mall where design fuels conflict
  34. Why is it still so hard for patients in need to get medicinal cannabis?
  35. Not 'all is forgiven' for asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka
  36. Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens
  37. Friday essay: video games, military culture and new narratives of war
  38. Five myths about the new cervical screening program that refuse to die
  39. Young workers expect their older colleagues to get out of the way
  40. Faking it: we should make manipulating algorithms for political purposes a crime
  41. Why 'green-black' alliances are less simple than they seem
  42. Grattan on Friday: One Nation blows WA campaign but will Hanson’s supporters care?
  43. Politics podcast: WA election – Mark McGowan accuses Turnbull of bluffing
  44. Research Check: will using lice products give my children behavioural problems?
  45. Australians' attitudes to vaccination are more complex than a simple 'pro' or 'anti' label
  46. What our backyards can tell us about the world
  47. The daily life of a Neanderthal revealed from the gunk in their teeth
  48. Democracy needs more trees and less Trump
  49. Weekly Dose: while the media panic about ice, we should worry about carfentanil
  50. FactCheck: does Western Australia have the highest unemployment in the country?

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