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Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia

  • Written by: Jozica Kutin, PhD Candidate - Economic Abuse and Young Adults, RMIT University
imageNew research has found that 15.7% of women and 7.1% of men have experienced economic abuse in their lifetimes.Shutterstock

Only recently have government and family violence services had access to data specifically on economic abuse. We analysed ABS data that identifies, for the first time, the extent of economic abuse in Australia. We established...

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How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty

  • Written by: Glenn Fitzgerald, Honorary Associate Professor of Agriculture and Food, University of Melbourne
imageIncreasing carbon dioxide is impacting some of our favourite foods.

Climate change and extreme weather events are already impacting our food, from meat and vegetables, right through to wine. In our series on the Climate and Food, we’re looking at what this means for the food chain.

The concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is...

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When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey

  • Written by: David Hocking, Research associate, Monash University

Have you ever watched a dog retrieve a ball thrown into water? On land, dogs are swift and agile, but in water they become slow and ungainly.

Kicking relentlessly at the water, they snap at the ball with their jaws, only to find that they are pushing it further away. Having eventually caught the ball, they inevitably go into a fit of coughing and...

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China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants

  • Written by: Colin Hawes, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney

Suspicion of Chinese corporations investing in Australia is not well justified when you consider the growth of private enterprise in China and the state of the Chinese Communist Party.

The fierce public debate about Chinese corporations investing in Australia is spurred by several misleading ideas about how much control the Chinese government has an...

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  1. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  2. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  3. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  4. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  5. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  6. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  7. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  8. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  9. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  10. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  11. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  12. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  13. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  14. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  15. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  16. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  17. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  18. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  19. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  20. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  21. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  22. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  23. Architecture, undistracted
  24. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  25. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  26. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program
  27. Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education
  28. The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political
  29. Leaving the past behind: what became of the anal personality?
  30. Nigeria
  31. Philippines
  32. Iraq
  33. Yemen
  34. Turkey
  35. Syria
  36. Saudi Arabia
  37. Sahel region, Africa
  38. South Sudan
  39. Venezuela
  40. Brazil
  41. United States
  42. India
  43. Afghanistan
  44. Pakistan
  45. North Korea
  46. Indonesia
  47. China
  48. War, conflict, economic strife: the world in 2017 is rife with hot spots, but leavened by hope
  49. Ukraine
  50. France

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