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Despite the rhetoric, this election fails the feminist test

  • Written by: Eva Cox, Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
imageWhat's on offer on issues that disproportionately affect women? Some minor tweaks that are useful but not change-making.AAP/Lukas Coch

The idea that there are policies of particular interest to women goes back to the suffrage era at the turn of the 20th century. Among the key arguments for women gaining the vote was that it would allow them to...

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Unit pricing saves money but is the forgotten shopping tool

  • Written by: Gary Mortimer, Senior Lecturer, QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology
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Using unit pricing is the best way for shoppers to save money on grocery shopping, new QUT research has demonstrated.

Our soon-to-be-published findings suggest a family of four could save up to 18% or $1700 a year on their weekly grocery shop by using this simple, often-overlooked tool to find the best value-for-money buys.

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Labor's proposed competition reforms do little to address inequality

  • Written by: Wendy Ng, Lecturer, University of Melbourne

Despite Labor’s claim that its recently announced competition-related proposals will tackle inequality and competition in markets, its proposals are far from adequate. In fact, they are unlikely to do much at all.

Labor announced that it would adopt four competition-related reforms to address inequality, including two amendments to the Competi...

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Doctors still provide too many dying patients with needless treatment

  • Written by: Magnolia Cardona-Morrell, Doctor, UNSW Australia
imageResearch shows some families pressure doctors to attempt heroic interventions on elderly relatives.Javier Sánchez Salcedo/Flickr, CC BY

Many doctors are continuing to provide end-of-life patients with needless treatments that only worsen the quality of their last days, new research shows.

Our review published in the International Journal for...

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  1. Bad behaviour in bars and pubs is a problem, but most of Australia's alcohol is drunk at home
  2. We can have fish and dams: here's how
  3. Let's talk about the space industry in Australia's election campaign
  4. Abbott would have lost 'resoundingly': Turnbull
  5. The Indi Project: 'Soft' voters trust Turnbull over Shorten to run the country
  6. Lessons from Brexit: the fruits of globalisation must be shared with low- and middle-income groups
  7. Brexit: act in haste...
  8. The Briefcase: does Australia's 'most exploitative reality show' breach broadcasting rules?
  9. Election FactCheck: Have 300,000 new jobs been created in the last calendar year and were almost two-thirds held by women?
  10. How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish
  11. Australia should aim for a trade deal with the UK post Brexit
  12. Australia doesn't need a plebiscite on same-sex marriage – Ireland's experience shows why
  13. Higher education gets short shrift in the election campaign, and we are all the poorer for it
  14. Health Check: is caffeine actually bad for kids?
  15. The same kind of 'silent majority' that spoke on Brexit may also be a force here
  16. 'The urban': a concept under stress in an interconnected world
  17. For the English, Brexit will mean economic pain
  18. Election 2016: will the infrastructure promises meet Australia's needs?
  19. A focus on economics (the dismal science) has produced a dismal election debate
  20. Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley seven times national average
  21. Rush to dam northern Australia comes at the expense of sustainability
  22. Wind and solar PV have won the race – it's too late for other clean energy technologies
  23. Life lessons from the editing suite of Paul Cox
  24. How Australia played the world's first music on a computer
  25. Malcolm Turnbull invokes Brexit to reinforce his campaign, as Newspoll has Coalition moving ahead
  26. Labor costings pass, but scare tactics detract
  27. Labor costings: ALP deficit $16.5 billion higher over the budget period
  28. Malcolm Turnbull: don't risk change or protest
  29. Europe endless, or Europe ending?
  30. After Brexit, keep a close watch on Italy and its Five Star Movement
  31. Paying the piper and calling the tune? Following ClubsNSW's political donations
  32. Warning Sign: Trigger Warnings and Externalities
  33. Brexit rocks Australian sharemarket, worse to come
  34. Stella’s Girls Write Up tells kids good writing starts with having something to say
  35. Brexit stage right: what Britain's decision to leave the EU means for Australia
  36. Post-plebiscite conscience vote on same-sex marriage is not the risk
  37. Healthy microbes make for a resilient Great Barrier Reef
  38. Leave wins UK Brexit referendum 52-48
  39. What's wrong with the web and do we need to fix it?
  40. Are itchier insect bites more likely to make us sick?
  41. India's looking for a new central bank governor to perform a tough balancing act
  42. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Medicare scare campaign
  43. Election FactCheck: is the Australian Sex Party right about religious organisations, tax and record-keeping?
  44. Not only do youth vote, they also represent their own
  45. Vital Signs: world markets wait for Brexit vote
  46. Robots are moving in to our homes, but there's no killer app
  47. Boondoggles, bellwethers and poli-tic-al parasites: revisiting political expressions
  48. Is there any hope for gambling reform in a new parliament?
  49. What do the Liberal and Labor election health promises mean for you?
  50. Australia's youth unemployment policy needs to be seen as a hand up, not a hand out

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