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Swollen executive pay packets reveal the limits of corporate activism

  • Written by Carl Rhodes, Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
Swollen executive pay packets reveal the limits of corporate activismThough Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce might be outspoken on some progressive issues, he supports the system that pays him 300 times that of the average Australian.Mick Tsikas/AAP, FAL

Qantas boss Alan Joyce is reportedly Australia’s highest-earning chief executive. He’s also a firm believer in corporate activism.

His pay packet is...

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why the Nationals shouldn't politicise the science replication crisis

  • Written by Martin Bush, Research Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne

The National Party, Queensland farming lobby group AgForce, and MP Bob Katter have banded together to propose an “independent science quality assurance agency”.

To justify their position, Liberal-National MP George Christensen and AgForce’s Michael Guerin specifically invoked the “replication crisis” in science, in...

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Merchants of misinformation are all over the internet. But the real problem lies with us

  • Written by Will J Grant, Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
Merchants of misinformation are all over the internet. But the real problem lies with usSocial media giants such as Facebook have been blamed for helping spread misinformation. But the problem runs deeper than that.AAP

Call it lies, fake news, or just plain old bullshit - misinformation seems to flutter wilfully around the modern world. The truth, meanwhile, can take tedious decades to establish.

It seems that every day, new...

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Politicians who become lobbyists can be bad for Australians' health

  • Written by Peter Miller, Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
Politicians who become lobbyists can be bad for Australians' healthLobbyists try to water down policies that could restrict the public's access to their harmful products.Motortion Films/Shutterstock

The impacts of heavy drinking, gambling and unhealthy food are among the leading causes of preventable health harm in Australia. And for the most part, we know what to do to reduce them.

Most of us would hope the...

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  2. it’s a word we use a lot, but what exactly is it?
  3. The ban on live sheep exports has just been lifted. Here’s what’s changed
  4. Albanese slams Morrison for using a "loud hailer" to talk to China from US
  5. a searing comics anthology on sexual violence
  6. Why can't rape survivors in Tasmania reveal their name, even when they want to?
  7. Do new cancer drugs work? Too often we don't really know (and neither does your doctor)
  8. Highly touted UN climate summit failed to deliver
  9. why can't we just build a pipe to move water to areas in drought?
  10. daughters of Robert Menzies and Arthur Calwell say parliament wasn't always a 'fort'
  11. 1 in 3 new mums struggle to get their baby to sleep, but some women have a tougher time
  12. 'Transformer' rooms and robo-furniture are set to remake our homes – and lives – before our eyes
  13. Yes, the US-Australia alliance is important, but Scott Morrison needs to take a careful approach with Donald Trump
  14. neither science nor history favours a dairy monopoly
  15. debunking the myths around self-injury
  16. We can make roof tiles with built-in solar cells – now the challenge is to make them cheaper
  17. How raising tax for high-income earners would reduce inequality, improve social welfare in New Zealand
  18. Leila Waddell, Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebel
  19. native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads
  20. where do phobias come from?
  21. Activists are using the climate emergency as a new legal defence to justify law-breaking
  22. the idea behind Labor's National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving
  23. Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal
  24. Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook – AI isn't smart enough yet
  25. City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on
  26. In a chatty world, losing your speech can be alienating. But there's help
  27. How Australians talk about tucker is a story that'll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant
  28. 'Edible forests' can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time
  29. 10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools
  30. From crime fighters to crime writers
  31. young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life
  32. To go to China you have to be invited: Morrison
  33. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the family law inquiry
  34. why don't we have electric aircraft?
  35. how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisis
  36. A shot of hope in the face of climate despair
  37. It's safest to avoid e-cigarettes altogether – unless vaping is helping you quit smoking
  38. What is the charge of concealment of birth and why is it still happening in Australia?
  39. We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians
  40. on the ending of a friendship
  41. Ignoring young people's climate change fears is a recipe for anxiety
  42. Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing
  43. Why do men have nipples?
  44. putting government money where policy needs to go
  45. We don't need another inquiry into family law – we need action
  46. NBN's new price plans are too little, too late
  47. The big budget question is why the surplus wasn't big
  48. It's Newstart pay rise day. You're in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts
  49. Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions
  50. Morrison government solid on industrial relations reform but bootlicks One Nation on family law

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