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Australia can do a better job of commercialising research – here's how

  • Written by: Ian Jacobs, Vice Chancellor, UNSW

Australia can benefit much more than it does currently from the world-leading research in our universities. It ranks near the top of the OECD for research excellence but is less effective at collaboration between industry and researchers to drive the economic benefits of research. I suggest two important measures that could go a long way to...

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A DNA test says you’ve got Indigenous Australian ancestry. Now what?

  • Written by: Elizabeth Watt, Research Fellow, Deakin University
A DNA test says you’ve got Indigenous Australian ancestry. Now what?Families have secrets - and sometimes we don't know our complete genetic histories. from www.shutterstock.com

Technologies for amplifying, sequencing and matching DNA have created new opportunities in genomic science. In this series When DNA Talks we look at the ethical and social implications.


Getting your “DNA done” is all the rage in...

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Revealing how much tax companies pay doesn't move markets or reduce tax avoidance

  • Written by: Roman Lanis, Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney

The public disclosure of information that Australia’s largest companies give to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on their tax returns doesn’t sway investors’ decisions and doesn’t reduce corporate tax avoidance, our research shows.

We examined the first three releases of ATO tax transparency data in 2014, 2015 and 2016,...

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there is evidence inclusive schooling will help those left behind

  • Written by: Linda J. Graham, Professor in the School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
there is evidence inclusive schooling will help those left behindThe benefits of mixed-ability classes are shared by all.Shutterstock

The recently released Gonski 2.0 Review aimed to examine how school funding should be used to improve school performance and student outcomes. A particular area of focus was to improve outcomes across all student cohorts including disadvantaged and vulnerable students, and...

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  2. The off-topic Conversation #160
  3. Why decisions to desex male dogs just got more complicated
  4. Rhino fossil rewrites the earliest human history of the Philippines
  5. $500 million for the Great Barrier Reef is welcome, but we need a sea change in tactics too
  6. Rio Tinto's climate change resolution marks a significant shift in investor culture
  7. teaching creativity and critical thinking through the curriculum is already happening
  8. the politics of sugar, sugary drinks and poor nutrition in Australia
  9. The politics behind the competitive neutrality inquiry into ABC and SBS
  10. where they come from and why they still matter
  11. Why your app is updating its privacy settings and how this will affect businesses
  12. gay conversion therapy's deep roots in Australia
  13. DNA facial prediction could make protecting your privacy more difficult
  14. Why some students are excluded from university later in their degree, and how to remedy it
  15. Cannes is right, Netflix movies just aren't the same
  16. Legal precedent based on false beliefs proves hard to overturn
  17. After damning the Commonwealth Bank's management, regulators want the bank to fix itself
  18. Labor MP Tim Hammond quits for family reasons, creating byelection in WA
  19. I go to the gym every day. Why can’t I lose weight?
  20. Greens urge Buffett rule to get more tax from high income earners
  21. Debunking three common myths about divorce and abuse in Muslim communities
  22. Recent Australian droughts may be the worst in 800 years
  23. Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNA
  24. The government could be boosting the budget bottom line with a change to how it taxes gas
  25. Still Point Turning is a vital affirmation of trans people through the story of Catherine McGregor
  26. what works and what to keep in mind when choosing a private treatment provider
  27. six rules for improving city bus services
  28. The waves of "reputational damage" spread far and wide
  29. Want to eat better? You might be able to train yourself to change your tastes
  30. Australia's reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chain
  31. Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data
  32. eSports are shifting the focus of Australia's sporting passion
  33. Planet Earth II Live unites art and science in a celebration of nature
  34. APRA and ASIC have the legal power to sack bank heads, but they need willpower
  35. It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements
  36. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: 'Dancing out of depression'
  37. To create safer cities for everyone, we need to avoid security that threatens
  38. The big four accounting firms struggle to shake their sexist pasts
  39. As Emmanuel Macron heads to Australia, the relationship is more important than ever
  40. Counting the costs of illness and injury on Australian workers
  41. With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture
  42. Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away
  43. but do we really need it?
  44. bandicoots live among us in Melbourne
  45. five articles to get you informed on sugar and Big Sugar's role in food policy
  46. There is still no US Ambassador to Australia, but it is neither an insult nor a concern
  47. Launching in May, the InSight mission will measure marsquakes to explore the interior of Mars
  48. the World Expo reshaped Brisbane because no one wanted the party to end
  49. Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion
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