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New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses

  • Written by: Terry Goldsworthy, Assistant Professor in Criminology, Bond University
imageTraditional policy responses are struggling to keep pace with new threats posed by new technologies.shutterstock

Australia has a problem with pornography.

The Senate reported recently on the harm online pornography inflicts on young people. Additionally, as part of its response to domestic violence, the Turnbull government announced a range of...

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Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters

  • Written by: Edgar Liu, Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Australia
imageThe stereotype of a dependent generation who won’t leave home overlooks the many reasons adult family members choose to live together in the one house.SpeedKingz from www.shutterstock.com

We’ve all seen it in the movies: overgrown “kidults” living at home while their parents pick up their dirty laundry, cook their meals and...

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Why music is not lost

  • Written by: Richard Vella, Professor of Music, University of Newcastle

When radio became popular in the 1920s, many believed this was the end for recording artists and live music. Suddenly, music was being played with no compensation or income streams available. Record companies worried that sales would drop. Venue owners believed people wouldn’t go out and see live music any more. Musicians’ Unions and...

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  2. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  3. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  4. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
  5. Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want
  6. A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
  7. New model for school funding that won't break the budget
  8. Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal
  9. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
  10. I used to be 'neoliberal', but I'm 'hard left' now
  11. Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
  12. Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway
  13. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  14. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  15. Why we require real names
  16. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
  17. Research Check: can eating aged cheese help you age well?
  18. We could've seen thunderstorm asthma coming and there are ways to prepare
  19. Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
  20. A new phonics test is pointless – we shouldn't waste precious money buying it from England
  21. Reinventing density: bridging the live-work divide
  22. Please, Donald Trump, don't send climate science back to the pre-satellite era
  23. Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history this weekend?
  24. Workers fight back with deviant behaviour in a precarious workplace: study
  25. Zika 'health emergency' status removed but it's sad news for reproductive health
  26. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on One Nation's troubles
  27. The rise and rise of the omniscient ‘I’
  28. Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence
  29. Changes to contract laws could give small farming businesses more control of data and innovation
  30. Reinventing density: bending the rules can help stop urban sprawl
  31. Friday essay: the loss of music
  32. Vital Signs: construction slump points to cooling economy
  33. Can the way we move after injury lead to chronic pain?
  34. 2050 climate targets: nations are playing the long game in fighting global warming
  35. Pink balls in day-night cricket could challenge players at sunset
  36. Grattan on Friday: The government is compromising Malcolm Turnbull's commitment to inclusion
  37. Politics podcast: Jenny Macklin on Labor's approach to welfare
  38. The limits of Silicon Valley: how Indonesia’s GoJek is beating Uber
  39. Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry
  40. Why the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report is still largely a story of failure
  41. Explainer: what is exposure therapy and how can it treat social anxiety?
  42. Early childhood educators rely on families to prop up low income, research finds
  43. Race to the bottom on company tax cuts won't stop tax avoidance
  44. ARIA there yet? Causes galore and some poop talk at the music industry awards
  45. Now we can edit life itself, we need to ask how we should use such technology
  46. Arrests and uncertainty overseas show why Australia must legalise compensated surrogacy
  47. Sydney needs higher affordable housing targets
  48. The key to future food supply is sitting on our cities' doorsteps
  49. There are 14 wild orange-bellied parrots left – this summer is our last chance to save them
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