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Here's what happens to aid projects when the money dries up and the spotlight fades

  • Written by: Denis Dragovic, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
Here's what happens to aid projects when the money dries up and the spotlight fadesAid projects in Iraq had more money than ideas.Denis Dragovic, Author provided

As a former aid worker, I often wondered about what happened to the projects I worked on years later. Did the anti-corruption commission we founded itself become corrupt? Having given grants to women to start businesses, did the men allow them to work? And what about the...

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Five biases create problems with share bikes – here's what we can do to counter them

  • Written by: Conor Wynn, PhD Candidate at BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University

Share-bike littering is a problem almost everywhere they’re introduced. In countries as diverse as China, Singapore and Ireland the bikes can be seen abandoned in the worst places. There are three elements to understanding the problems of share-bike dumping and vandalism:

  • behaviour, or how we make the choices about how to act
  • context, or the...

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Women in rural workplaces struggle against the 'boys club' that leads to harassment

  • Written by: Lucie Newsome, Lecturer, Business School, University of New England

A culture of male dominance in rural Australian workplaces is a key explainer for the high rate of sexual harassment.

Women in rural Australia experience workplace sexual harassment at alarming rates. Researchers Skype Saunders and Patricia Easteal interviewed 84 female employees from regional and remote areas of Western Australia, the Northern...

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NBN faces irrelevance in cities as competitors build faster, cheaper alternatives

  • Written by: Allan Asher, Visitor, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) & Chair of Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance, Australian National University

Malcolm Turnbull is now connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) at his Point Piper home on a 100 megabits per second (Mbps) plan, it was revealed in Senate Estimates yesterday. But only because his department intervened to avoid delays affecting other customers.

And while the Prime Minister might be happy with his NBN connection,...

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  1. A critical guide to the Oscar Best Pic nominees – and why Call Me By Your Name is the standout
  2. Border Force chief Roman Quaedvlieg's future decided 'in weeks': Porter
  3. Why New Zealand should not explore for more natural gas reserves
  4. Bringing pleasure into the discussion about sexting among teens
  5. Why do people intentionally injure themselves?
  6. The Conversation articles engage readers and have practical uses in the real world
  7. the sun sets on British imperial credibility
  8. Smart electricity meters are here, but more is needed to make them useful to customers
  9. the facts on shark bites and shark numbers
  10. Bugs and allergies in pregnancy linked to child developmental disorders, like autism and ADHD
  11. How universities can make graduates employable with connections to industry
  12. From the space-race to filial tensions, The Far Side of the Moon explores reconcilation
  13. What Australia can learn from Fiji in reducing the working poor
  14. How a three-decade remaking of the city revived the buzz of 'Marvellous Melbourne'
  15. Why blockchain challenges conventional thinking about intellectual property
  16. McCormack has tough task to match Barnaby Joyce's 2016 electoral gold standard
  17. Peter Dutton on balancing interests in home affairs
  18. phenibut – the Russian anti-anxiety drug linked to Gold Coast teens' overdoses
  19. An education research institute won't take politics out of the classroom
  20. Strong sense of cultural identity drives boom in Māori business
  21. Australia's Winter Olympics results suggest we might need a new measure of success
  22. Liberals likely to win Tasmanian election, while federal Labor's poll lead widens
  23. Under McCormack, the Nationals need to accept they are a minority and preserve their independence
  24. McCormack wins Nationals leadership after token challenge by Christensen
  25. Curious Kids: Is x-ray vision possible?
  26. As Tasmania looks likely to have minority government, the Greens must decide how to play their hand
  27. Australia's Emissions Reduction Fund is almost empty. It shouldn't be refilled
  28. Fewer alcohol-related visits to inner Sydney emergency room since 'lockout laws' introduced
  29. Apartment residents need better protection from secondhand smoke
  30. Stars for sale, but no, you can't really buy an official star name to remember someone
  31. Smart money: a better way for Australia to select big transport infrastructure projects
  32. Shattered Nationals meet to chart their post-Barnaby course
  33. Barnaby Joyce: the story of an unlikely rise and a self-inflicted fall
  34. Arming teachers will only make US school shootings worse
  35. Children with facial difference have a lot to teach us about body image
  36. Barnaby Joyce succumbs to pressure and will go to backbench
  37. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Barnaby Joyce's 'week off'
  38. New evidence suggests we may need to rethink policies aimed at poverty
  39. Blaming immigrants for unemployment, lower wages and high house prices is too simplistic
  40. As the Pyeongchang Olympics comes to a close, what legacy will it leave?
  41. Giant handaxes suggest that different groups of early humans coexisted in ancient Europe
  42. How media framing limits public debate about oil exploration
  43. Friday essay: the erotic art of Ancient Greece and Rome
  44. Combatting online bullying is different for girls and boys: here's why
  45. No, you're probably not 'addicted' to your smartphone – but you might use it too much
  46. Turnbull's 'sex ban' speech reveals that politics is still not an equal place for women – but it is changing
  47. Fearmongering is scary, not genetic technologies themselves
  48. Our acid oceans will dissolve coral reef sands within decades
  49. Australian cities are crying out for better planning, but the research funding is missing
  50. Grattan on Friday: The Nationals have been paralysed by the extraordinary and unpredictable Joyce situation

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How to Rent a Car for Uber in Melbourne: What Every New Driver Needs to Know

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