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We don't remove comments just because we disagree with them

  • Written by: Cory Zanoni, Community Manager, The Conversation

Every so often, after removing a few comments for violating our community standards, a discussion will start about moderation and what kinds of comments are removed. Inevitably, one line of argument will pop up:

Comments shouldn’t be removed just because they disagree with the author.

It’s been a recurring theme since I started working...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Nicholas Klomp and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including the Senate results, Tom Calma calling for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion’s resignation, Malcolm Turnbull’s decision not to nominate Kevin Rudd for the UN secretary-general...

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Women are satisfied with 'women's work' but not with the pay

  • Written by: Michael Dockery, Associate Professor, Curtin University
imageWomen may be happy in jobs that are stereotypically seen as 'women's work' because of the way gender roles have developed over time.www.shutterstock.com

Women who have jobs that are stereotypically considered “women’s work”, such as secretaries, childcare workers and nurses, are happy with the type of work they do but not with...

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Common method of preventing early births may be causing more

  • Written by: Lindsay Kindinger, Prematurity Clinical research fellow, Imperial College London
imagePreterm babies are at significant risk of health and development problems, highlighting the need to get prevention strategies right.from www.shutterstock.com.au

New research has found a commonly used method of preventing early or preterm birth (delivery of a baby before 37 weeks) may in fact be causing more to occur, and leading to further problems....

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  1. Raising chisel to stone, and making art
  2. One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century
  3. Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
  4. Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?
  5. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  6. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016
  7. Pay doctors to keep patients healthy rather than just for treating illness
  8. Friday essay: why a building and its rooms should have a human character
  9. Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
  10. How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman
  11. Should monopoly businesses have an obligation to create competition?
  12. Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go
  13. Bitcoin users largely shrug off latest $69 m Bitcoin exchange heist
  14. Grattan on Friday: Twenty years on, the Perils of Pauline haunt another Liberal leader
  15. Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
  16. Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
  17. St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
  18. State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
  19. Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
  20. Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others
  21. Ethics and writing
  22. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  23. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  24. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
  25. Should students pay different fees for university courses?
  26. Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
  27. Games and gambling: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
  28. WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
  29. Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised
  30. What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?
  31. Olympic medal forecasting: it's easier to predict results than you might think
  32. A competitive superannuation system: will efficiency gains follow?
  33. Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans
  34. The solution to Australia's gas crisis is not more gas
  35. Baz’s Bronx: Get Down or Let Down?
  36. Rethinking youth justice: there are alternatives to juvenile detention
  37. There's work (and life) outside of universities for PhD graduates
  38. Reimagining NSW: tackling education inequality with early intervention and better research
  39. Future teachers improving in literacy and numeracy: Birmingham
  40. How old is too old for a safe pregnancy?
  41. Former UK foreign secretary says Rudd was 'qualified' to be UN candidate
  42. Weekly Dose: sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
  43. NAPLAN results don't tell the full story behind Australia's lack of education progress
  44. Zika, or dengue and Chikungunya: what should you be worried about at the Rio Olympics?
  45. Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut
  46. PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency
  47. The traditionalists are restless, so why don't they have a party of their own in Australia?
  48. Mobile payments and tap and go might not mean the end for tellers
  49. Making waves: the tsunami risk in Australia
  50. Amnesty-Human Rights Watch investigation reports medical neglect and assaults on Nauru

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