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Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all

  • Written by: Alison Gerard, Associate Professor in Law, Charles Sturt University
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This is part of our Reimagining New South Wales (NSW) series. For this series, vice-chancellors across NSW asked a select group of early and mid-career researchers to envisage new ways to tackle old problems and identify emerging opportunities across the state.

It’s time for a fresh look at community and policy development in rural and...

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How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman

  • Written by: Daryl Howard, Scientist - X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy, Australian Synchrotron
imageThe X-rays of the Australian Synchrotron reveal a remarkably clear picture of the woman's face.David ThurrowgoodimageThe painting as it appears in the gallery. The hidden face is upside down and obscured by the portrait on top.National Gallery of Victoria

Edgar Degas’s painting Portrait of a woman is an enigmatic piece. When it was first acquired...

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Should monopoly businesses have an obligation to create competition?

  • Written by: Stephen King, Adjunct professor, Monash University

Australia has many concentrated markets, dominated by a few big businesses. Should these businesses be required to actively promote competition?

Australia’s current competition law says that as long as a business doesn’t use its market power in a way that is intended to harm competition and consumers, it has behaved legally.

But perhaps...

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Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia
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Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: gloomy data isn’t helped by the big 4 banks holding back on interest rate cuts.

The big, but...

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  1. Bitcoin users largely shrug off latest $69 m Bitcoin exchange heist
  2. Grattan on Friday: Twenty years on, the Perils of Pauline haunt another Liberal leader
  3. Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
  4. Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
  5. St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
  6. State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
  7. Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
  8. Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others
  9. Ethics and writing
  10. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  11. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  12. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
  13. Should students pay different fees for university courses?
  14. Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
  15. Games and gambling: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
  16. WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
  17. Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised
  18. What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?
  19. Olympic medal forecasting: it's easier to predict results than you might think
  20. A competitive superannuation system: will efficiency gains follow?
  21. Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans
  22. The solution to Australia's gas crisis is not more gas
  23. Baz’s Bronx: Get Down or Let Down?
  24. Rethinking youth justice: there are alternatives to juvenile detention
  25. There's work (and life) outside of universities for PhD graduates
  26. Reimagining NSW: tackling education inequality with early intervention and better research
  27. Future teachers improving in literacy and numeracy: Birmingham
  28. How old is too old for a safe pregnancy?
  29. Former UK foreign secretary says Rudd was 'qualified' to be UN candidate
  30. Weekly Dose: sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
  31. NAPLAN results don't tell the full story behind Australia's lack of education progress
  32. Zika, or dengue and Chikungunya: what should you be worried about at the Rio Olympics?
  33. Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut
  34. PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency
  35. The traditionalists are restless, so why don't they have a party of their own in Australia?
  36. Mobile payments and tap and go might not mean the end for tellers
  37. Making waves: the tsunami risk in Australia
  38. Amnesty-Human Rights Watch investigation reports medical neglect and assaults on Nauru
  39. Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant
  40. Why executions in Indonesia must stop
  41. Jihad Selfie: listening to 'the other side' in documentary film
  42. Ghost-hunting: will the census reveal the true scale of homelessness in Australia?
  43. Business Briefing: Abenomics fails to address Japan's true woes
  44. Is the concept of 'helicopter money' set for a resurgence?
  45. Reimagining NSW: Five ways to future-proof NSW’s innovation ecosystem
  46. Does not compute: Australia is still miles behind in recycling electronic products
  47. Reimagining NSW: going beyond 'wilderness' and finding fresh ways to relate to our environment
  48. The hidden curriculum in surgery says it's not for women
  49. The land we play on: equality doesn’t mean justice
  50. The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible

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