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Australia's car industry ignored the elephant in the room: carbon emissions

  • Written by: Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
imageAustralia's car industry got left behind on emissions standards. Exhaust image from www.shutterstock.com

Ford’s closure of its Geelong manufacturing plant on Friday is part of a broader story about Australia’s manufacturing sector. But one side of this story has so far been overlooked: the role of Australia’s lax attitude to...

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With the plebiscite set to be blocked, who will leave a legacy of marriage equality?

  • Written by: Paula Gerber, Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
imageBIll Shorten has announced Labor will block legislation to set up a plebiscite on marriage equality.AAP/Lukas Coch

Every prime minister likes to leave a legacy, to be able to say Australia is in a better position because of the reforms they introduced. John Howard points to gun control as his legacy; Kevin Rudd the apology to the Stolen Generations;...

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Data surveillance is all around us, and it's going to change our behaviour

  • Written by: Uri Gal, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
imageThe next level of big data is about incentivising 'appropriate' activities.Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

Enabled by exponential technological advancements in data storage, transmission and analysis, the drive to “datify” our lives is creating an ultra-transparent world where we are never free from being under surveillance.

Increasi...

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Healthy guts are swarming with bugs, so what do they do?

  • Written by: Robert Moore, Research Professor of Biotechnology, Head of Host-Microbe Interactions Laboratory, RMIT University
imageThe exact composition of each person’s microbiota is as unique as their finger prints.The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Our gut does more than help us digest food; the bacteria that call our intestines home have been implicated in everything from our mental health and sleep, to weight gain and cravings for certain foods. This series examines how far...

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  3. Has social media really shifted the line between personal and private forever?
  4. Worried your emails might be spied on? Here's what you can do
  5. Canada lets the states lead on climate, should Australia do the same?
  6. The new UN deal on aviation emissions leaves much to be desired
  7. Turnbull's misgivings on renewables overlook economic and financial realities
  8. Joe Cinque's Consolation: violence, delusion and the question of guilt
  9. Bill Shorten steps up attack on Donald Trump
  10. Labor caucus set to kill marriage vote
  11. We need to pick up the pace on innovation, says secretary of prime minister's department
  12. The off-topic Conversation #109
  13. Viciousness reaches new lows in the second debate, but it is unlikely to change the race
  14. How retro storytelling can help boost imaginative capacity
  15. Paid domestic violence leave: how do other countries do it?
  16. Trump and Clinton clash in second presidential debate: experts respond
  17. FactCheck Q A: do eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses?
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  19. Health Check: what is normal vaginal discharge and what's not?
  20. Clear skies ahead: how improving the language of aviation could save lives
  21. Social media abuse is a sign that the feminist project still far from finished
  22. Post-truth politics and the US election: why the narrative trumps the facts
  23. Why ‘baby talk’ is good for your baby
  24. Renters are being left out in the cold on energy savings: here's a solution
  25. Why do parents take such different approaches to their kids' education?
  26. Younger farmers more open to sharing the family farm with outside investors
  27. In praise of trigger warnings
  28. A future world full of driverless cars... seriously?!
  29. Government knocks out 478 courses from loans under VET crackdown
  30. Panel to assist in working up long-delayed changes for universities
  31. Morrison to rule on Hancock-Chinese bid for Kidman cattle empire
  32. Looking back at Italy 1992: the rise and fall of King Midas
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  35. Donald Trump makes disparaging remarks about women – in other breaking news, water is wet
  36. The #TrumpTapes: Being (Very) Careful What You Wish For
  37. Climate change must be part of Australia's electricity system review
  38. Looking back at 1992: Italy’s horrible year
  39. The gendered nature of trolling
  40. Commodifying Banksy
  41. New VET Student Loans unlikely to weed out dodgy private providers
  42. What's in a name? How a democracy becomes an aristocracy
  43. Do the governance experts at the World Bank have a governance problem?
  44. Hacked by your fridge: the Internet of Things could spark a new wave of cyber attacks
  45. Protecting migrant workers requires a rethink on employer freedoms
  46. Explainer: what causes knock knees and do they have to be treated?
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