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Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders

  • Written by: Marilyn Campbell, Professor Faculty of Education, School of Cultural and Professional Learning, Queensland University of Technology
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Recent media campaigns have linked children watching online pornography to an increase in the number of school children committing sexual assault.

One article linked school students sexually assaulting each other to the rise in online porn.

But is there evidence...

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Explainer: why an Australian trade deal with the UK could take a decade

  • Written by: Gary P. Sampson, John Gough Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Melbourne Business School
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Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo has ruled out negotiating free-trade deals with the UK until Britain has formally completed its departure from the European Union. In fact, it may be many years before Australia can seriously contemplate...

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Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change

  • Written by: David Holmes, Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University

This week’s US Presidential election will likely be more important for climate change action than the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference which started in Marrakech yesterday. Whichever candidate makes it to the White House, progressive action on climate change in America, and therefore globally, is going to take a hit.

We have...

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Planning for a rainy day: there's still lots to learn about Australia's flood patterns

  • Written by: Fiona Johnson, Senior Lecturer, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia
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The journal Climatic Change has published a special edition of review papers discussing major natural hazards in Australia. This article is the first in a series looking at those threats in detail.

Recent floods in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria have reminded us of the power of our weather and rivers to wreak havoc on homes, business...

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More Articles …

  1. Natural disasters are affecting some of Australia's most disadvantaged communities
  2. Despite business' best efforts whistleblowers still lack protection under Australian law: new research
  3. What’s gender solidarity got to do with it? Woman shaming and Hillary Clinton
  4. Can private security companies improve responses to victims of family violence?
  5. Should family members of those with mental illness have access to their health information?
  6. Expansion is no longer the answer to improving the Australian education system
  7. Senate kills plebiscite, leaving same-sex marriage on indefinite hold
  8. Under President Trump the misinformed citizen will reign supreme
  9. Intelligence agencies to be scrutinised
  10. How Jakarta's first Chinese Indonesian governor became an easy target for radical Islamic groups
  11. Hanson backs sending her senator to the High Court
  12. Community organisations lack the funding and data to measure their impact
  13. US Election Day predictions: President, Governors, Senate and House of Representatives
  14. Human Rights Commission takes on Turnbull
  15. Hope and aspiration at the National Architecture Awards
  16. European leaders taking cues from Australia on asylum seeker policies
  17. Health Check: why do we get a stitch and how can we stop it?
  18. Explainer: what are antibodies and why are viruses like dengue worse the second time?
  19. For single parents, it pays to work
  20. 2015's record-breaking temperatures will be normal by 2030 - it's time to adapt
  21. The evidence of early human life in Australia's arid interior
  22. Obama, Trump, Clinton and the affordances of distance
  23. The off-topic Conversation #111
  24. Review: The naked nude from the Tate
  25. QUT discrimination case exposes Human Rights Commission failings
  26. Corruption looks different in China
  27. Fogies, insiders and press release summarisers: art criticism in Australia
  28. Some of the world's strangest species could vanish before they're discovered
  29. How to find a good app for mental health
  30. How to teach literacy so no child is left behind
  31. The blight on our media (and it's not 18C)
  32. Information before regulation to make amateur brain stimulation safer
  33. Robots likely to be used in classrooms as learning tools, not teachers
  34. Ministers set to look at 18C inquiry
  35. With a less confrontational approach to whaling, more whales could be saved
  36. 18C case against students dismissed but conservatives' push for change continues
  37. What the ABC's new Catalyst could mean for science on TV
  38. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Senate crossbench
  39. Explainer: what is glaucoma, the 'sneak thief' of sight?
  40. Time to toss one of banking's four pillars out of the nest?
  41. Hazelwood's closure calls for a rethink on Latrobe Valley solutions
  42. Company directors can be held legally liable for ignoring the risks from climate change
  43. The Paris climate deal has come into force – what next for Australia?
  44. Daily commutes are draining our water reserves
  45. We need better treatments for childhood cancer, with less side effects
  46. The risk of reading too much into the rise of Donald Trump
  47. Friday essay: the naked truth on nudity
  48. Vital Signs: Australia not immune from global market uncertainty
  49. Preserving cities: how 'trendies' shaped Australia's urban heritage
  50. Ancient fishes kept their young in a nursery

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