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Home ownership foundations are being shaken, and the impacts will be felt far and wide

  • Written by: Rachel Ong, Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University

The nature of the centrepiece of the Australian housing system – owner occupation – is quietly undergoing a profound transformation. Once taken for granted by the mainstream, home ownership is increasingly precarious. At the margins, which are wide, it is as if a whole new form of tenure has emerged.

Whatever the drivers, significant...

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Too many Australians living in nursing homes take their own lives

  • Written by: Briony Murphy, PhD Candidate, Epidemiology & Forensic Medicine, Monash University
Too many Australians living in nursing homes take their own livesOver half of nursing home residents suffer from depression.from shutterstock.com

Around 140 Australian nursing-home residents took their own lives between 2000 and 2013, our new study shows. Published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the study is the first to examine the number and patterns of suicide in Australia’s...

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#MeToo and #TimesUp move off the red carpet and towards activism at 2018 Oscars

  • Written by: Michelle Smith, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
#MeToo and #TimesUp move off the red carpet and towards activism at 2018 OscarsFrances McDormand after winning the award for Best Actress in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. PAUL BUCK

The Oscars telecast is typically a traditional affair: passionate speeches played out by the orchestra, hit-or-miss opening monologues, and the certainty of being overly long. This year’s ceremony brought with it potential...

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why businesses often struggle to expand overseas

  • Written by: Conor Wynn, PhD Candidate at BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
why businesses often struggle to expand overseasSausages may not be enough for Bunnings UK to break shoppers' habits. Shutterstock

One of the reasons why some companies fail in their expansions, whether ANZ in Asia, or Starbucks and Woolworths in Australia, is that their business models don’t sufficiently account for differences in consumers’ habits.

Research shows that over time...

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  3. the changing status of Indigenous Australians
  4. The Conversation is fact checking the South Australian election — and we want to hear from you
  5. How migration affects housing affordability
  6. What makes someone more likely to be bullied at work and how companies can help them
  7. What are spider webs made from and how strong are they?
  8. the extent of job-swapping between public servants and fossil fuel lobbyists
  9. No, university is not a waste of time and money
  10. How landline phones made us happy and connected
  11. why people have affairs, and how to deal with them
  12. Failure to curb tax concessions will put increasing burden on ordinary workers: Bowen
  13. The Vatican, the exorcists and the return of the Devil in a time of enchantment
  14. Hodgman rides Tasmanians' disdain for minority government to a second term in office
  15. Liberals romp to emphatic victory in Tasmanian election
  16. America's allies will bear the brunt of Trump's trade protectionism
  17. Four ways alcohol is bad for your health
  18. Michelle Grattan on the government's shake-up
  19. The freak warm Arctic weather is unusual, but getting less so
  20. 3D selfies, super slo mo video and 4G for the moon
  21. How the histories of Mardi Gras and gay tourism in Australia are intertwined
  22. Conquered city, site of revolutions from above and below
  23. Time of change explores the diversity of Muslim Australian identities
  24. The off-topic Conversation #154
  25. Yes the 'cheerleader effect' is real – and you can make it work in your favour
  26. Auditing, matching pay and accountability will close the gender pay gap: study
  27. how archaeology helped save the Franklin River
  28. what are middle ear infections and how are they treated?
  29. Why governments should be cautious about criminalising hazing
  30. Australia could look to New Zealand to increase the number of Indigenous academics and students
  31. The Syrian 'hell on earth' is a tangle of power plays unlikely to end soon
  32. All the signs point to our big cities' need for democratic, metro-scale governance
  33. What was that about making Parliament House a better workplace for women?
  34. Why Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs aren't identical to the original pet
  35. McCormack puts Chester back on frontbench in cautious changes
  36. The personal is now commercial – beauty, fashion and feminism
  37. Trust Me I'm An Expert: The science of pain
  38. Woolies is just one of many gambling companies using spying and other techniques to lure gamblers
  39. What is listeria and how does it spread in rockmelons?
  40. Patricia Cornelius’ In The Club packs a punch
  41. Jacinda Ardern on her political life
  42. Minimum price on alcohol in the NT will likely reduce harm
  43. Close case set to present a legal headache for the AFL
  44. AI can now create fake porn, making revenge porn even more complicated
  45. Yo-yo dieting doesn't necessarily make you heavier in the long run
  46. The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
  47. Growth pains and gridlock come to Hobart, and building more roads is not the best way out
  48. Federal government's foreign donations bill is flawed and needs to be redrafted
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