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From expected reoffender to trusted neighbour: why we should rethink our prisons

  • Written by: Rohan Lulham, Research Fellow, Designing Out Crime Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney
imageCommunal area and classrooms of the Intensive Learning Centre facility, Mid North Coast Correctional Centre, NSW.Supplied

There were 26,163 people serving sentences in Australian prisons in 2015. Around 90% of these people will return to the community within ten years. But will they return to the community equipped with the skills, capabilities and...

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Survey: two-thirds of Great Barrier Reef tourists want to 'see it before it's gone'

  • Written by: Annah Piggott-McKellar, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
imageCheck it out while you can.Tourism Queensland/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is declining – a fact that has not been lost on the world’s media.

The issue has made international headlines and attracted comment from public figures such as US President Barack Obama and British businessman Richard...

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How the entire nation of Nauru almost moved to Queensland

  • Written by: Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Australia
imageNauru's parliament would have been rebuilt in Queensland, but with less power.CdaMVvWgS/Wikimedia Commons

Nauru is best known to most Australians as the remote Pacific island where asylum seekers who arrive by boat are sent. What is less well known is that in the 1960s, the Australian government planned to relocate the entire population of Nauru to...

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Modelling for major road projects is at odds with driver behaviour

  • Written by: Cameron Murray, Economist, The University of Queensland

Transport modelling for major road projects like Sydney’s WestConnex and Melbourne’s Western Distributor is at odds with what is known about motorists' behaviour.

A big part of the benefits claimed for new major roads in Australian cities is travel time savings. Evidence shows, however, that instead of saving travel time, these roads...

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  1. Gaming in the classroom: what we can learn from Pokémon Go technology
  2. From plate to podium: what does it take to fuel Olympic athletes?
  3. How your doctors' job satisfaction affects the care you receive
  4. NSW Liberals' factional battles stand in way of reform, but changes in participation demand it
  5. Guide to the classics: the Icelandic saga
  6. It's all in the rotation: exploring planets orbiting distant stars
  7. If Abbott hadn't been hyper-partisan on Malaysia people swap, Turnbull mightn't have a Nauru problem
  8. In the Margins of Philosophy; Plato to Footnotes
  9. Capitalism and Democracy [part 4]
  10. Major parties to allocate long and short Senate terms using order-of-election method
  11. Ausgrid decision justified but more transparency needed
  12. People power is the secret to reliable, clean energy
  13. Small world: does ecology reach all the way down to the subatomic scale?
  14. Nauru abuse reports should mark an opportunity for compassion, not more dehumanisation
  15. Explainer: what is psychoanalysis?
  16. The Dobell Drawing Biennial: modestly staged, impressively rendered
  17. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the census debacle
  18. 'No More Hunger' Games: if only we cared about the real-world Liveability Olympics
  19. Western democracy needs humility to step beyond its own shadow
  20. Standardised curriculums in Indian universities are not helping to improve academic quality
  21. The legacy of Glenn Stevens in three lessons
  22. Just for you: how to create sounds that only you can hear in a venue
  23. The $8.2 billion water bill to clean up the Barrier Reef by 2025 – and where to start
  24. Vital Signs: US scores while Australia struggles
  25. NAPLAN data is not comparable across school years
  26. Higher, faster, stronger: Olympic athletics by numbers
  27. Cutting to numb the pain of sex abuse: interviews with young women in drug treatment
  28. Friday essay: reflections on the idea of a common humanity
  29. How temporary migration is changing Australia – and the world
  30. Root of census failures say badly done IBM and ABS. Still down for some.
  31. Grattan on Friday: There's seldom been a harder time to get things done
  32. Ausgrid: electricity decision fails to shock
  33. Changing state-owned enterprises provide less cause for Chinese investment fears
  34. Going for... green? Why Rio's swimming pools are changing colour
  35. Stopping land clearing and replanting trees could help keep Australia cool in a warmer future
  36. Morrison blocks Chinese bids for NSW power grid
  37. A solution to antibiotic resistance may have been under our noses all along
  38. Why Australian women over 55 aren't exactly enjoying the time of their lives
  39. Angry Turnbull flags heads will roll over census disaster
  40. Explainer: what makes a winning swimmer?
  41. Companions of Earth: minimoons, quasi-satellites and horseshoes
  42. All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds
  43. Will Chinese investment sacrifice Ukraine's dreams of democracy to economic needs?
  44. The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial
  45. Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife
  46. The curious incentives and consequences of negative gearing
  47. Science or snake oil? Do the enduring Hydroxycut weight-loss products work?
  48. Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games
  49. Incest: why is 'worst of the worst' abuse so often ignored?
  50. Meme wars: Lush, Hillary Clinton and graffiti on Instagram

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