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How our peers influence our superannuation decisions

  • Written by: Carly Moulang, Senior Lecturer, Monash University
How our peers influence our superannuation decisionsWomen are less active in managing their super when there are more men in the office.Shutterstock

Just as our peers can influence what movies we go to or where we go on holiday, our research suggests that Australians’ superannuation investment decisions are influenced by our work colleagues.

If a superannuation fund member is at a workplace...

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The Commonwealth Games are an opportunity to face up to the history of colonialism

  • Written by: Andy Fuller, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
The Commonwealth Games are an opportunity to face up to the history of colonialismCampaign Sovereignty in the lead up to the 2006 Commonwealth Games.AAP

Every day, thousands of runners run around The Tan track at the perimeter of Melbourne’s Botanical Gardens. Many do not realise they pass a boulder inscribed with the Aboriginal flag and a statement about the remains buried beneath. This site of recreation and picnicking...

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Why some migrant school students do better than their local peers (they're not 'just smarter')

  • Written by: Justine Dandy, Senior lecturer in Psychology, Edith Cowan University
Why some migrant school students do better than their local peers (they're not 'just smarter')Asian Australian students tend to spend more time studying than Anglo-Australians.from shutterstock.com

Australians from some migrant backgrounds achieve better results than their local peers, according to recent reports on the academic performance of school students.

The 2017 OECD review of migrant education found that students from the...

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Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights

  • Written by: Sarah Joseph, Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rightsFacebook’s actions – or inactions – facilitated breaches of privacy and human rights associated with democratic governance.EPA/Peter DaSilva

Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to protect the personal data of millions of users from being accessed by data mining company Cambridge...

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  2. Babylon Berlin and why our fascination with 1920s Germany reveals the anxieties of our times
  3. Public housing ban on people with drug records likely to do more harm than good, research tell us
  4. Why we made iWitnessed, an app to collect evidence
  5. what is lupus and how is stress implicated?
  6. what will New Zealand's new government bring for towns and cities?
  7. How last night's fight affects the way couples divide housework
  8. Island-hopping study shows the most likely route the first people took to Australia
  9. Five tips to help you make the most of reading to your children
  10. Drug use can have social benefits, and acknowledging this could improve rehabilitation
  11. Australia is one of the world's best places to retire, or is it?
  12. how the First Fleet got a first taste of Australia's unforgiving climate
  13. Victoria's sperm donor laws yield some surprises, but mostly happy ones
  14. In Open Cut exhibition, protest art challenges visitors to take action
  15. can two chickens hatch out of a double-yolk egg?
  16. Breaking the shackles of the national mindset in a polarised world
  17. Tim Storer – the $35 billion dollar man
  18. Australia's digital divide is not going away
  19. a bold experiment exploring female voices constricted by trauma
  20. Art Gallery SA goes back to Impressionism's colourful roots with masterpieces from Musee d'Orsay
  21. Is psychiatry ready for medical MDMA?
  22. Brain-zapping, the curious case of the n-rays and other stories of evidence
  23. Monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths
  24. Can the cricketers banned for ball tampering ever regain their hero status? It's happened before
  25. views from NSW and SA
  26. Is Truvada (PrEP) the game-changer that will end new HIV transmissions in Australia?
  27. he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that matters
  28. Islamic State schooled children as soldiers – how can their 'education' be undone?
  29. Online conspiracy theorists are more diverse (and ordinary) than most assume
  30. The BOM outlook for the weather over the next three months is 'neutral' – here's what that really means
  31. Daylight saving can boost the economy but Australia needs to make it uniform
  32. With China's space station about to crash land, who's responsible if you get hit by space junk?
  33. save the world, one chocolate at a time
  34. How the internet is reshaping World Heritage and our experience of it
  35. land degradation is turning soils into deserts
  36. Senate newcomer Tim Storer plays hardball on company tax
  37. John Blaxland on Australia's expulsion of Russian spies
  38. Why family violence leave should be paid
  39. Queensland has saved a Hollywood blockbuster, but the local film industry is still missing out
  40. Victorian drug law reform recommendations are welcome – but must include prisoners
  41. How complementary medicine practitioners can help get kids vaccinated
  42. Not everyone can say #MeToo and we need to tackle the causes of sexual violence
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  45. the City of Sydney's efforts to increase the affordable housing supply
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