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Franchisees don't do their homework and are too optimistic about risks: research

  • Written by: Jenny Buchan, Associate Professor in business law, UNSW Australia

Franchisees are unrealistically optimistic about risks of setting up their business, even after those risks have been disclosed to them, our research shows.

We tested this unrealistic optimism by surveying 205 current US franchisees from 26 brands. We chose the US because there is publicly accessible data about the identity of franchisees there...

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Why Trump's victory will mean the end of US soft power

  • Written by: Gorana Grgic, Lecturer in US Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
imageDonald Trump and Barack Obama meet for the first time.Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

The United States that emerged as the “last man standing” and the bedrock of liberty at the end of the Cold War initially had its moral standing seriously questioned during George W. Bush’s presidency.

It started with the restrictions of civil liberties...

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David Hockney interrogates space and time

  • Written by: Anita Pisch, Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
imageInstallation view of David Hockney: Current at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. © David Hockney Inc.

When a living treasure like David Hockney visits our shores, it might be tempting to hold a blockbuster retrospective. Instead, the NGV, in collaboration with Hockney’s studio, has chosen to comprehensively explore...

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Sexually transmissible infections on the rise in Australia: a snapshot

  • Written by: Alexandra Hansen, Editor, The Conversation
imageRates of sexually transmissible infections among the Indigenous population are still much higher than the non-Indigenous population. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Notifications of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) are on the rise in Australia, according to the latest annual surveillance report of STIs and blood borne viruses in Australia by...

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  1. We need more support systems for people who want to work during and after cancer treatment
  2. Tasmanian devils reared in captivity show they can thrive in the wild
  3. IBM's Watson would do a better job at being a bank teller than most current staff
  4. A deal to be welcomed but detail is missing
  5. Australia shores up defences against asylum seekers as US deal provides escape for refugees
  6. Newspoll: Labor gains to lead 53-47
  7. A blaze of light in every word: vale Leonard Cohen
  8. The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami
  9. As a writer-musician, Leonard Cohen was a one-off
  10. Goodbye Leonard, you brought us so much light
  11. Trump's win shows how vital the arts and humanities are
  12. On a bad day, some blue sky..
  13. What's behind the Trump bump in markets
  14. What might a Trump presidency mean for Muslims and the Muslim world?
  15. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia's reaction to the Trump victory
  16. Most men don't realise age is a factor in their fertility too
  17. President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive
  18. Trickle down Trump-economics is not the fiscal policy the world needs
  19. Australia should assume Trump won't step back from his campaign commitments
  20. The Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for the region
  21. Friday essay: Camarade – The Earth
  22. Swingers' hookup program can find the right match for endangered species
  23. Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand
  24. Lovability: restoring liveability’s human face
  25. Suppressing the immune system won't improve your chances of conceiving with IVF
  26. Grattan on Friday: As one businessman to another…Malcolm and Donald begin to talk
  27. On your bike Trump
  28. Dear Mr President-elect Trump, thanks! We now live in the best of all possible worlds
  29. Race to the White House – President-elect Donald J Trump
  30. Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow
  31. Brandis scraps direction to Solicitor-General
  32. The third global bleaching event took its toll on Western Australia's super-corals
  33. There is no female president this time, and women are divided about it
  34. Creating a healthy company requires more than good pay incentives
  35. Skin patches instead of needles: can nanotechnology vaccinate the world?
  36. Trump can kill trade deals but he can't kill globalisation
  37. How did we get the result of the US Election so wrong?
  38. This Remembrance Day, digital commemoration makes it impossible to forget
  39. No matter where you look, the Trump presidency is worrying news
  40. What's in store for Asia under President Trump
  41. How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
  42. Trade with China or security with the US? Australia will have to choose
  43. We've learned a lot about heatwaves, but we're still just warming up
  44. Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
  45. Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?
  46. Are we expecting too much of our junior doctors?
  47. Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI
  48. Turnbull government will seek early engagement with Trump administration
  49. US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?
  50. Trump defies expectations and takes the White House on a wave of populism

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