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3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it's really more like 2.002-parent IVF)

  • Written by: David Thorburn, co-Group Leader, Brain & Mitochondrial Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it's really more like 2.002-parent IVF)Australians can now have their say on the issues around mitochondrial donation.From shutterstock.com

Mitochondrial donation is an assisted reproductive technology sometimes described as “three-parent IVF”. It’s designed for women at high risk of passing on faulty mitochondrial DNA and having a child with severe mitochondrial...

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No, a 'complex' system is not to blame for corporate wage theft

  • Written by: Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
No, a 'complex' system is not to blame for corporate wage theftThe heads of the Business Council of Australia and Australian Retailers Association are among those blaming "inadvertent payroll mistakes"on an overly complex industrial relations system. www.shutterstock.com

Is Australia’s award system so complex major corporations capable of handling millions of customers and billions of dollars...

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Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don't want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?

  • Written by: Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University
Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don't want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?Big Tech companies have built a better trap for profiting from consumers' attention than the traditional media can offer. Shutterstock

Media companies around the world are in an existential funk. The tech giants - Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon - have built a better mousetrap for profiting from consumers’ attention than the traditional...

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Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data

  • Written by: Roberto Musotto, Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Law, Edith Cowan University
Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen dataRansomware attacks are becoming increasingly complex, as hackers find creative ways to beat ordinary systems of defence. christiaancolen/flickr, CC BY

In recent weeks, Johannesburg’s computer network was held for ransom by a hacker group called Shadow Kill Hackers. This was the second time in three months a ransomware attack has hit South...

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  1. The open access shift at UWA Publishing is an experiment doomed to fail
  2. The government is committed to an Indigenous voice. We should give it a chance to work
  3. We may one day grow babies outside the womb, but there are many things to consider first
  4. Reading progress is falling between year 5 and 7, especially for advantaged students: 5 charts
  5. Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in 'human zoos' are chilling
  6. Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world war
  7. Smart tech systems cut congestion for a fraction of what new roads cost
  8. Another COAG meeting, another limp swing at the waste problem
  9. Government set to win its new powers against unions
  10. When the coroner looked at how to cut drug deaths at music festivals, the evidence won. But what happens next?
  11. Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for 'difficult' students?
  12. Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?
  13. does monetary policy work any more?
  14. Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home
  15. Pass the popcorn - Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies
  16. How NZ's colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka
  17. Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortem
  18. Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke
  19. the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court
  20. Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answer
  21. Remote Indigenous Australia's ecological economies give us something to build on
  22. a short, sharp history of the bayonet
  23. Labor's post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done
  24. Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home
  25. Queensland Health's history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be
  26. Australia's drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point
  27. Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist
  28. Labor's election post-mortem warns against 'becoming a grievance-based organisation'
  29. This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness
  30. Abusing a robot won't hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person
  31. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west
  32. Australian unis' financial strife in three charts
  33. Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying
  34. men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women
  35. How to deal with smartphone stress
  36. Government sets up concessional loan scheme for drought-hit small businesses
  37. Trump could win again despite losing popular vote, as Biden retakes lead in Democratic polls
  38. Tweaking prescribing rules won't fix chemical restraint in aged care
  39. I teach and play gospel music and I think Kanye's Jesus is King is a remarkable gospel album
  40. Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there's a way to avoid it
  41. Churches have legal rights in Australia. Why not sacred trees?
  42. Australia is spending less on diplomacy than ever before – and its influence is suffering as a result
  43. the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi's hidden cameras
  44. climate change isn't just about temperature
  45. How do solar panels work?
  46. why Mars is cold despite an atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide
  47. Australia wants to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Equal pay for the Matildas will help our chances
  48. Should you worry about Boeing 737s? Only if you run an airline
  49. India's not joining the latest free-trade deal which limits Australia's market access
  50. just 15 years' worth of emissions will raise sea level in 2300

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