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Superannuation is still mired in the same old issues, and no one is going to fix your nest egg but you

  • Written by: Helen Hodgson, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
Superannuation is still mired in the same old issues, and no one is going to fix your nest egg but youThe best advice is still to keep track of your super yourself.Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com

The Productivity Commission’s latest report on superannuation asks whether the current system is working for members – and answers firmly in the negative.

The report identifies four factors that can chip away at super fund members’...

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It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution

  • Written by: Alice Clement, Research Associate in the School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University
It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolutionAn artist's reconstruction of the ancient fish _Ligulalepis_. Brian Choo, Author provided

Published today, our new paper describes a spectacular 400 million-year-old 3D-preserved fossil fish, Ligulalepis.

The 3D anatomy of the fossilised Ligulalepis skull reveals previously unknown details of the pattern of dermal skull bones, the shape of the...

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Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?

  • Written by: Felicity Cox, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University
Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?Australia and New Zealand are neighbours but our accents are quite different. We even have different words for things.www.shutterstock.com

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!

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Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne's a world leader

  • Written by: Ferne Edwards, Honorary Associate, RMIT University

Food sharing is experiencing a renaissance in cities around the world. By food sharing, we mean the collaborative growing, cooking, eating and distributing of food as well as sharing food-related skills, spaces and tools.

This is nothing new, of course, but new socio-technologies are being used to reshape food-sharing opportunities. These range...

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  2. Queensland's new land-clearing laws are all stick and no carrot (but it's time to do better)
  3. The BS and the science of nanotechnology
  4. Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desert
  5. Newspoll asks skewed company tax cut question as Labor gains
  6. New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
  7. Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
  8. University funding debates should be broadened to reflect their democratic purpose
  9. Young people, not employers, should choose super fund: Productivity Commission
  10. is it a white thing?
  11. will the universe expand forever, or contract in a big crunch?
  12. how globalisation spreads infectious diseases
  13. The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time
  14. Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations
  15. Research shows networking is painful, but it can be a lot better
  16. How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
  17. Government 'dares' the Senate on its corporate and income tax packages
  18. Hold your horses – brumby fertility control isn't that easy
  19. what is black salve and why do people think it can cure cancer?
  20. Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond
  21. Independent crossbencher Steve Martin joins Nationals, giving the party a Tasmanian presence
  22. The off-topic Conversation #161
  23. The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum
  24. how traditional methods could deliver zero-emission shipping
  25. why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
  26. Why CEOs need to embrace fear
  27. why infectious diseases are so much more harmful to isolated peoples
  28. why reducing the number of subjects isn't the answer
  29. The IOC thinks eSports are too violent for the Olympics, but traditional sports are violent too
  30. Summit on, then off, now on again? The seemingly endless game-playing of US-North Korea relations
  31. New Zealand's hoki fishery under scrutiny after claims of fish dumping, misreporting
  32. Airport-dwelling magpies get in less of a flap about planes, and that could be good or bad
  33. Demasi cleared, but images in science continue to attract intense scrutiny
  34. Michelle Grattan on Labor's byelection bother
  35. Why some migrants in abusive relationships don't receive help, and are deported
  36. why, and what can we do about it?
  37. Australia's deal with Timor-Leste in peril again over oil and gas
  38. Dugong and sea turtle poo sheds new light on the Great Barrier Reef's seagrass meadows
  39. William Ricketts Sanctuary is a racist anachronism but can it foster empathy?
  40. Six things Labor’s review of tertiary education should consider
  41. Plain, Greek, low-fat? How to choose a healthy yoghurt
  42. should the government intervene to fix low wages?
  43. When neighbourhoods become dangerous, look to local strengths for a lifeline
  44. but what's going on beneath Hawai'i's volcano?
  45. 'Super Saturday' is not so super in Labor's eyes
  46. Labor outraged as July 28 Super Saturday overlaps ALP conference
  47. Expenses authority can't tell Joyce when his travel expenses inquiry will end
  48. A new levy on digital giants like Google, Facebook and eBay is a step towards a fairer way of taxing
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