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the remarkable, prize-winning rise of our small publishers

  • Written by: Emmett Stinson, Lecturer in Writing and Literature, Deakin University
the remarkable, prize-winning rise of our small publishersFour of the six shortlisted books for the 2018 Stella Prize were from smaller presses, as was the winner, Alexis Wright's Tracker. Stella Prize

It has been a big 12 months for Australian small publishers, who have swept what are arguably the three most important national literary awards. Sydney press Giramondo published Alexis Wright’s...

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Company boards are stacked with friends of friends so how can we expect change?

  • Written by: Sherene Smith, PhD student, RMIT University

Social connections drive board appointments and more than two-thirds of directors in the 200 largest public companies are on the board of multiple companies. So whoever replaces ex-AMP chairwoman Catherine Brenner will likely be drawn from a small pool of people.

Brenner resigned after the Financial Services Royal Commission heard AMP had misled...

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fallout from banking crackdown could be worse than interest rate rises

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a regular economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: both the RBA and US Fed leave interest rates on hold as all eyes turn to potential new banking...

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China-backed Sumatran dam threatens the rarest ape in the world

  • Written by: Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University

The plan to build a massive hydropower dam in Sumatra as part of China’s immense Belt and Road Initiative threatens the habitat of the rarest ape in the world, which has only 800 remaining members.

This is merely the beginning of an avalanche of environmental crises and broader social and economic risks that will be provoked by the BRI...

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  5. What democratic schools can teach us about how to implement Gonski 2.0
  6. Peter Dutton's bid for more crime-fighting power has bought him a fight
  7. The ALP promises to phase out live sheep export
  8. Facebook gets into dating, but there's little scientific evidence online personality matching works
  9. Carrying backpacks doesn't cause back pain in children and teenagers
  10. ReachTEL poll 52-48 to Labor as party faces Perth byelection, and strong swings to US Democrats
  11. Why superhero films such as Infinity War aren't ruining cinema (or our minds)
  12. who is worse off under Coalition budgets?
  13. Australia can do a better job of commercialising research – here's how
  14. A DNA test says you’ve got Indigenous Australian ancestry. Now what?
  15. Revealing how much tax companies pay doesn't move markets or reduce tax avoidance
  16. there is evidence inclusive schooling will help those left behind
  17. Chris Bowen on the budget and Labor's policies
  18. The off-topic Conversation #160
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  20. Rhino fossil rewrites the earliest human history of the Philippines
  21. $500 million for the Great Barrier Reef is welcome, but we need a sea change in tactics too
  22. Rio Tinto's climate change resolution marks a significant shift in investor culture
  23. teaching creativity and critical thinking through the curriculum is already happening
  24. the politics of sugar, sugary drinks and poor nutrition in Australia
  25. The politics behind the competitive neutrality inquiry into ABC and SBS
  26. where they come from and why they still matter
  27. Why your app is updating its privacy settings and how this will affect businesses
  28. gay conversion therapy's deep roots in Australia
  29. DNA facial prediction could make protecting your privacy more difficult
  30. Why some students are excluded from university later in their degree, and how to remedy it
  31. Cannes is right, Netflix movies just aren't the same
  32. Legal precedent based on false beliefs proves hard to overturn
  33. After damning the Commonwealth Bank's management, regulators want the bank to fix itself
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  36. Greens urge Buffett rule to get more tax from high income earners
  37. Debunking three common myths about divorce and abuse in Muslim communities
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  39. Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNA
  40. The government could be boosting the budget bottom line with a change to how it taxes gas
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