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When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing

  • Written by Phil McManus, Proefessor of Urban and Environmental Geography: Head of School of Geosciences, University of Sydney

What is it that pushes some riders to break the rules on the use of the whip in Thoroughbred horse racing in Australia?

The prospect of coming second – or even last – may have something to do with it, if our team’s study of recorded official whip rule breaches is anything to go by.

In the study, published today in the open access...

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The trouble with 'microaggressions'

  • Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne

Few psychological concepts have caught on as successfully as the idea of the “microaggression”. The term gained wide currency only ten years ago, but by 2015 it had been crowned the word of the year by the Global Language Monitor. It is now rife on college campuses in the United States and increasingly beyond their ivied walls.

Microaggr...

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Let's kill the Australian identity card zombie once and for all

  • Written by Bruce Baer Arnold, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
imagePauline Hanson's One Nation has suggested a national identity card.AAP/Sarah Motherwell

Some policies are like zombies – toxic, frightening, defiantly unkillable. They reappear, even though they aren’t useful and aren’t pretty. Pauline Hanson’s call for a national identity card is one of those zombies.

The One Nation leader...

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Sit on hands or take a stand: why athletes have always been political players

  • Written by Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
imageNFL star Colin Kaepernick has declined to stand for the US national anthem.Robert Hanashiro/Reuters

It is sometimes said that sport ought to be separate from politics, or that politics should be removed from sport. These sentiments are well meaning – if idealistic.

Sport is variously part of government policy, international relations,...

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  1. Elevated lead levels in Sydney backyards: here's what you can do
  2. When care becomes control - financial abuse cuts across cultures
  3. What's the point of sex? It's good for your physical, social and mental health
  4. Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?
  5. Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?
  6. A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy
  7. What we can all learn from the VW emissions saga
  8. Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city
  9. ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks
  10. How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms
  11. Health Check: is snoring anything to worry about?
  12. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
  13. Heed Hawke's call – Australian federalism is an idea whose time has ended
  14. The mosquito-borne Zika virus can also be transmitted by sexual activity
  15. What's the point of sex? It's communication at a biological level
  16. Game, set and match-fix: what more can be done to stop corruption in tennis?
  17. What can the medieval King Roger teach us about tolerance?
  18. Thinking about a sustainable retrofit? Here are three things to consider
  19. Australia must make the environment integral to economic decision-making
  20. Why did US President Obama seek to punish female Russian hacker Alisa Shevchenko?
  21. WA ReachTEL: 52-48 to Labor, but One Nation at 10.8%
  22. Ley goes, and Turnbull's reforms pave way for fewer expenses scandals
  23. Centrelink data-matching problems show the need for a government blockchain
  24. Should over 50’s avoid that afternoon coffee? Maybe.
  25. Trump, Putin and the new international order
  26. Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
  27. 9 ways 'won’t-power' is better than 'willpower' for resisting temptation and helping you eat better
  28. What is heart failure? It's not as common a cause of death as reports would have us believe
  29. How the insights of the Large Hadron Collider are being made open to everyone
  30. Is FIFA expanding the football World Cup for the good of the game?
  31. Are our busy doctors and nurses losing empathy for patients?
  32. For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there’s no such thing as bad publicity
  33. Myuran Sukumaran's voice in his first exhibition is raw, premature and unsettling
  34. Hot dogs and cool cats: keeping pets cool without blowing your energy bill
  35. We need to find new ways to measure the Australian labour force
  36. Five things to consider when designing a policy to measure research impact
  37. How to manage Russia becomes one of the most pressing questions in US, and world, affairs
  38. Shorter or longer tennis matches: what's the right balance?
  39. Putin, the political technologist
  40. Explainer: why has Rod Culleton been disqualified from the Senate?
  41. Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
  42. 'I'm not a mind reader': understanding your partner's thoughts can be both good and bad
  43. Expenses reform is easy and essential – the only thing lacking is politicians' resolve to do it
  44. Beyond La La Land: the top ten toe-tapping film musicals
  45. Life in a post-flying Australia, and why it might actually be ok
  46. There is no silver bullet to stop fraudsters
  47. Trump and Showering Golden
  48. Note to Centrelink: Australian workers' lives have changed
  49. Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts
  50. Bright Lights – a TV farewell to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

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