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Facebook wants to be in your workplace, but you'll probably find trolls there too

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia

Facebook is gearing up to bring social networking into the workplace with its newly renamed Workplace service. Workplace, which was previously known as Facebook at Work, has been under a private beta test for the past two years. Workplace provides companies with their own Facebook environment that is restricted to their own employees.

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UK experience of domestic violence disclosure schemes is a cautionary tale for Australia

  • Written by: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
imageAustralian jurisdions should focus attention on evidence-informed practice and policy to tackle domestic violence.shutterstock

The 2009 murder of Clare Wood by her ex-partner led to the introduction of a national domestic violence disclosure scheme (known as “Clare’s Law”) in England and Wales. The scheme aims to prevent the...

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Evangelical politics: the rise and fall of Mike Baird

  • Written by: Michael Hogan, Associate Professor and Honorary Associate, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
imageMike Baird has announced a backdown on NSW's greyhound racing ban.AAP/Dan Himbrechts

I remember thinking, when Mike Baird replaced Barry O’Farrell as premier in April 2014, that the New South Wales Liberal Party had found a safe hand at the wheel. He was young, personable, with considerable experience in banking and business, and respected by...

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  2. The world's vanishing wild places are vital for saving species
  3. US election: what are super PACs, and what role does money play in the race?
  4. University changes to academic contracts are threatening freedom of speech
  5. Business Briefing: why the future is workless
  6. How migrant workers are critical to the future of Australia's agricultural industry
  7. Speaking with: Alanna Kamp about the erasure of Chinese-Australian women from our history books
  8. Peering into the future: does science require predictions?
  9. What the consistency of your poo says about your health
  10. Kintsugi and the art of ceramic maintenance
  11. Explainer: what is contract theory and why it deserved a Nobel Prize
  12. Samsung pulls the pin on the Galaxy Note 7 but will unlikely suffer permanent damage
  13. Turnbull is trussed up, unable to deliver either marriage plebiscite or parliamentary outcome
  14. Labor maintains 52-48 lead in Newspoll
  15. New South Wales overturns greyhound ban: a win for the industry, but a massive loss for the dogs
  16. Buyouts mean the future of Australian video-on-demand is hard to picture
  17. Let's address the perfect storm of factors leading to obesity in disadvantaged children
  18. Hurricane Matthew is just the latest unnatural disaster to strike Haiti
  19. How we get sucked in by junk food specials in supermarkets
  20. Turnbull dodges on what happens after marriage plebiscite bill is defeated
  21. Australia's car industry ignored the elephant in the room: carbon emissions
  22. With the plebiscite set to be blocked, who will leave a legacy of marriage equality?
  23. Data surveillance is all around us, and it's going to change our behaviour
  24. Healthy guts are swarming with bugs, so what do they do?
  25. Gut feeling: how your microbiota affects your mood, sleep and stress levels
  26. Debate reveals Trump's dated, dangerous masculinity – and how he just doesn't get it
  27. Has social media really shifted the line between personal and private forever?
  28. Worried your emails might be spied on? Here's what you can do
  29. Canada lets the states lead on climate, should Australia do the same?
  30. The new UN deal on aviation emissions leaves much to be desired
  31. Turnbull's misgivings on renewables overlook economic and financial realities
  32. Joe Cinque's Consolation: violence, delusion and the question of guilt
  33. Bill Shorten steps up attack on Donald Trump
  34. Labor caucus set to kill marriage vote
  35. We need to pick up the pace on innovation, says secretary of prime minister's department
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  37. Viciousness reaches new lows in the second debate, but it is unlikely to change the race
  38. How retro storytelling can help boost imaginative capacity
  39. Paid domestic violence leave: how do other countries do it?
  40. Trump and Clinton clash in second presidential debate: experts respond
  41. FactCheck Q A: do eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses?
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  44. Clear skies ahead: how improving the language of aviation could save lives
  45. Social media abuse is a sign that the feminist project still far from finished
  46. Post-truth politics and the US election: why the narrative trumps the facts
  47. Why ‘baby talk’ is good for your baby
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