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Why is the advertising industry still promoting violence against women?

  • Written by: Lauren Gurrieri, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
imageThe advertising industry has a long and chequered history of objectifying women.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

Advertisers, challenged with cutting through a cluttered marketing environment, sometimes aim to shock. Unfortunately while their aim may be to get their client noticed, our research shows they continue to glorify the violent...

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Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?

  • Written by: Hugh Taylor, Melbourne Laureate Professor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

This article is the first in our three-part series on the blinding, deafening and sometimes deadly conditions in Indigenous Australian children that have little to no impact on their non-Indigenous counterparts. The next two articles will look at rheumatic heart fever and disease; and otitis media.


Many people don’t know this, but Indigenous...

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Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Melbourne Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation

Automated financial advice has been around for quite some time. Usually a bank or a broker will type your details into computer software and rely on algorithms to advise you, especially if you’re a small time investor.

However these days, more and more investors are digital natives, savvy when using online platforms and more trusting of...

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First person: how the Paralympics changed my life

  • Written by: Richard Nicholson, Athlete in Residence, University of Canberra
imageThe author competing at the 2012 London Paralympics.Australian Paralympic Committee, CC BY-SA

I lost the use of my legs at age four through illness. There are family photos of me walking around as a toddler, but it was so long ago I can’t remember it now. So perhaps it is like the old saying that “you can’t miss what you never...

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More Articles …

  1. We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
  2. Australia is locking up too many women but the UK offers a blueprint for a radical new approach
  3. Guide to the classics: Ovid's Metamorphoses and reading rape
  4. Confused? Don't worry because that can be a good thing
  5. People are 'blind' to plants, and that's bad news for conservation
  6. Australian Renewable Energy Agency saved but with reduced funding – experts react
  7. What is the role of a teacher?
  8. Gay Liberal senator denounces marriage plebiscite
  9. Australia's housing affordability problem explained in five historical steps
  10. Risky business: how companies are getting smart about climate change
  11. Government gets a deal for $6.3 billion in savings to pass parliament
  12. Here's why we need nurse-resident ratios in aged care homes
  13. Dickensian approach to residential tenants lingers in Australian law
  14. Australia's Health 2016 report card: experts respond
  15. Young people worldwide fear a lack of economic opportunities – it's easy to see why
  16. LNP abandons hope of challenging Herbert result
  17. Chris Mitchell writes a love letter to himself
  18. The democratic paradox
  19. Political meddling in teacher education needs to stop
  20. Free speech is at risk in Australia – and it's not from Section 18C
  21. Get out of my face! We're more antisocial in a shared office space
  22. Plebiscite looks set to fail, but the push for same-sex marriage will not
  23. Finding momentary pleasure: how viewing art can help people with dementia
  24. What is physical activity in early childhood, and is it really that important?
  25. Australia to embrace the new era of gravitational wave astronomy
  26. Climate action is the key to Australia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  27. Plebiscite trouble wherever Malcolm Turnbull looks
  28. Netflix likely to ignore 50% of customers willing to pay a premium for US content
  29. Senate to inquire into Nauru and Manus Island
  30. On the life of an adjective
  31. Fifteen years on from 9/11, we calculated the true cost to business
  32. When political self-interest decides donations rules, what chance reform in the public interest?
  33. Health Check: can vitamins supplement a poor diet?
  34. The off-topic Conversation #107
  35. Blame game as government forced to filibuster to fill Senate work gap
  36. Why moving out public housing tenants is a tragedy for Millers Point and for Sydney
  37. Retraction: why we removed an article about Chinese donations
  38. Phew! New Urban Agenda clears last hurdle before Habitat III
  39. Are refugee and migrant diasporas the missing piece of the development puzzle?
  40. Soft power and the institutionalisation of influence
  41. Road user charging belongs on the political agenda as the best answer for congestion management
  42. Free speech and the media are too often in a marriage of convenience
  43. Explainer: what is free speech?
  44. A history of failed reform: why Australia needs a banking royal commission
  45. To really tackle corporate tax evasion we need a public register
  46. Here’s looking at: Mike Parr’s Jackson Pollock the Female
  47. How does ice use affect families and what can they do?
  48. Ancient life in Greenland and the search for life on Mars
  49. Do arts teachers have to be artists?
  50. The fossil fuel divestment game is getting bigger, thanks to the smaller players

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