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ANZ and Amex the winners in Australia's banks' fight with Apple over payment apps

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Australia’s banks have always enjoyed a lucrative income from credit card “interchange fees”, the charges that the banks levy on merchants’ sales. These fees amount to AU $2.5 billion a year which are ultimately passed on to consumers.

Unwilling to share any of this revenue with Apple, all but ANZ and...

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Rudd's fate in Turnbull's hands

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

Malcolm Turnbull has been left to decide whether the government should allow Kevin Rudd to be a candidate for secretary-general of the United Nations.

After the question divided cabinet on Thursday, Turnbull told a news conference: “We’ve considered this issue and I owe Mr Rudd a telephone call before I say anything more about it...

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Ocean currents suggest where we should be looking for missing flight MH370

  • Written by: Charitha Pattiaratchi, Professor of Coastal Oceanography, University of Western Australia

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is one of the greatest mysteries in aviation. Costing A$180 million, the search of the seabed to locate the crash site is also one of the most expensive.

But after almost 28 months since its disappearance, the exact crash location has still not been found.

The Australian government, with help from...

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Four qualities that helped small businesses survive the end of the resources boom

  • Written by: Jerad A. Ford, Research Fellow in Innovation and Strategy, The University of Queensland

The “once in a lifetime” mining boom is officially behind us. Anaemic economic growth and unemployment have already beset the predominately resource-based economies of Western Australia and Queensland.

Recent reports out of Western Australia reveal companies are racking up debt to stay in business and many more are becoming insolvent.

But...

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  3. What kind of person joins a cult or joins a terror group?
  4. Explainer: the A, B, C, D and E of hepatitis
  5. Abuse in youth detention is not restricted to the Northern Territory
  6. Is netball a feminist triumph? Let's discuss
  7. Is Islamic banking more risky compared to conventional banking?
  8. ANZ wins class action on fees, but we still don't know the real cost of late payments
  9. Childhood shyness: when is it normal and when is it cause for concern?
  10. How far off is a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease?
  11. School is not always a safe place for students with disability – this has to change
  12. As surveillance gets smart, hackers get smarter
  13. All the Olympics are a stage, and all the athletes merely players: the rich history of the modern Games
  14. Cabinet battle over Rudd a test for Foreign Minister Bishop
  15. Tasmanian Senate result: 5 Labor, 4 Liberals, 2 Greens, 1 Lambie
  16. Dopey policy: is the IOC fit for purpose?
  17. Pokécology: people will never put down their phones, but games can get them focused on nature
  18. Why we're making no progress tackling the exploitation of migrant workers
  19. Weekly Dose: fentanyl, the anaesthetic that may have been used as a chemical weapon on Chechen rebels
  20. The backlash against open plan offices: segmented space
  21. Data gaps mean Indigenous incarceration rates may be even worse than we thought
  22. Asia’s ineffective diplomacy makes life difficult for Australia
  23. CCTV: who can watch whom under the law?
  24. How do you know you're not living in a computer simulation?
  25. When terror goes viral it's up to us to prevent chaos
  26. Ten facts you need to know about the chicken and eggs on your table
  27. Is the tropical Indian Ocean to blame for southern Australia's wet winter?
  28. More scrutiny needed on commissions paid to life insurance advisers
  29. Business Briefing: what to do about low incomes
  30. What it means when kids walk on their toes
  31. Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy care
  32. Redetermining paradigmatic norms: is there any hope for academic writing?
  33. Evidence of NT detention centre abuse was there for all to see
  34. Backstories, Intimacies and the Ghostbusters Dilemma
  35. Is it back to the future for human origins science or just a case of science media misleading us again?
  36. Four Corners: why did the two previous investigations have no impact on changing this abuse?
  37. In a glass clearly: Singapore and Australia compared
  38. Morrison flags opposition to nominating Rudd for UN post
  39. Land carbon storage swelled in the Little Ice Age, which bodes ill for the future
  40. Can a corpulent Woolies discard its history and fight off Aldi?
  41. Violent video games and real violence: there's a link but it's not so simple
  42. Turkey coup: why have teachers and academics been targeted?
  43. Did sex drive mammal evolution? How one species can become two
  44. Reading French literature in a time of terror
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  46. Save or salvage: the real role administrators play in troubled businesses
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