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China's legalisation of rhino horn trade: disaster or opportunity?
theconversation.com - Hubert Cheung and Duan Biggs and Yifu Wang
The Chinese government will be reopening the nation’s domestic rhino horn trade, overturning a ban that has stood since 1993. An outcry since the …
The Arts (Australia)
Why we should remember Boorong, Bennelong's third wife, who is buried beside him
theconversation.com - Meredith Lake
More than 200 years after Woollarawarre Bennelong’s death, the NSW government has purchased the land where he is buried. On the north side of the …
Business (Australia)
Here's a tip that could make banks phenomenally successful: radical honesty
theconversation.com - Louise Metcalf
Appearing before the banking royal commission, the newly appointed head of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Comyn, has held out the prospect of ethical …
Housing
Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment
theconversation.com - Alanna Kamp and Ana-Maria Bliuc and Kathleen Blair and Kevin Dunn
This is the fourth article in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century. These articles draw on newly published research, in a special issue …
Business (Australia)
A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we're about to find out how we use our time
theconversation.com - Lyn Craig
Much has changed since 2006 about the way we use our time. Back then we didn’t have iPhones, iPads, Tinder, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, …
Wastewater
City water restrictions hurt our most vulnerable – especially women
theconversation.com - Paul Satur and Becky Batagol
When we think of the difficulties that women have accessing water, we tend to think of women and girls in developing nations struggling to carry …
The Arts (Australia)
Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their 'Black Friday' sales
theconversation.com - Daniel May
Australians familiar with “Black Friday” sales might associate them with images of Americans clambering over each other to battle for iPhones and …
Cognitive Impairment
It's hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused too
theconversation.com - Joseph Ibrahim and Daisy Smith and Lyndal Bugeja
We don’t often think of older women being victims of sexual assault, but such assaults occur in many settings and circumstances, including in nursing …
China
With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?
theconversation.com - Greg Raymond
There is no evidence that China has ever contemplated using its nuclear weapons to coerce another state. Instead, China has maintained a “no first …
Methylation
It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works
theconversation.com - Ozren Bogdanovic
Today a large international consortium of researchers published a complex but important study looking at how DNA works in animals. The research …
Social Housing
Households to get $2000 subsidy for batteries under Shorten energy policy
theconversation.com - Michelle Grattan
A Labor government would subsidise households to install batteries as part of the ALP’s energy policy to be unveiled by Bill Shorten on Thursday. If …
Education
Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?
theconversation.com - Edwin Creely and Fleur Diamond
NAPLAN results indicate a decline in students’ ability to write. Outcomes in literacy, including writing, affect student achievement across multiple …
The Arts (Australia)
Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody
theconversation.com - Kristyn Harman
When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic …
Business (Australia)
If there's one thing Pacific nations don't need, it's yet another infrastructure investment bank
theconversation.com - Susan Engel
If Scott Morrison was looking for a way to prove Australia is a good neighbour to Pacific nations, he could hardly have chosen a worse option. Looking …
Consciousness
Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research
theconversation.com - Julian Koplin and Julian Savulescu
Scientists have become increasingly adept at creating brain organoids – which are essentially miniature human brains grown in the laboratory from …
Mental Health
An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger
theconversation.com - Effie Karageorgos
The 100th anniversary of the truce that ended the first world war has been marked. More than $1 billion is being spent on remembering the dead. Now …
Moths
Curious Kids: How do moths eat our clothes?
theconversation.com - Andreas Zwick
Curious Kids is a series for children, where we ask experts to answer questions from kids. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter at the …
Business (Australia)
Fresh thinking: the carbon tax that would leave households better off
theconversation.com - Richard Holden and Rosalind Dixon
Today, as part of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Inequality, we release a study entitled A Climate Dividend for Australians that offers a practical …
The Arts (Australia)
Why adult video stars rely on camming
theconversation.com - Sophie Pezzutto
With pirated and amateur pornography widely available online, porn no longer provides a steady income for many working in the adult industry. During …
Pregnancy
If you're feeding with formula, here's what you can do to promote your baby's healthy growth
theconversation.com - Rachel Laws and Elizabeth Denney-Wilson and and and and Jessica Appleton and Karen Campbell
While breastfeeding is the recommended approach to infant feeding, some mothers may not be able to breastfeed. Others may find themselves moving on …
Voting
How much will voters pay for an early Christmas? Eight charts that explain Victoria’s transport election
theconversation.com - Marion Terrill and James Ha
The most magical time of the year is upon Victorians: election season. The (taxpayer-funded) gifts promised by the major parties far exceed anything …
Elections
The Greens set to be tested on a number of fronts in the Victorian election
theconversation.com - Narelle Miragliotta
Critical times lie ahead for the Greens in Victoria and across the federation more generally. In recent years, the Greens have managed to achieve what …
Business (Australia)
Why we should worry about Victoria's China memorandum of understanding
theconversation.com - Peter Lloyd
Victoria’s Labor government stole a march on the rest of the country last month becoming the first (and only) state government to sign a memorandum …
Technology (Australia)
A/B testing: how offline businesses are learning from Google to improve profits
theconversation.com - Mark Sanderson
The market testing that helped give us the Google search we know today is being emulated by industries from hospitality to manufacturing to help …
Nitrates
Getting clean drinking water into remote Indigenous communities means overcoming city thinking
theconversation.com - Nina Lansbury Hall and and and and Susan Mott and Wendy Hoy
Many people in Australia do not have access to safe drinking water. It’s particularly difficult in Indigenous communities because they are small, …
Community Health
Victoria votes: your guide to the 2018 election health promises
theconversation.com - Vijaya Sundararajan and Alan Shiell and Hassan Vally and Steven Lewis
With health care spending accounting for 30% of the Victorian budget, or A$20 billion, health is a major policy area for the Victorian election on …
Voting
Poll wrap: Labor's worst polls since Turnbull; chaos likely in Victorian upper house
theconversation.com - Adrian Beaumont
This week’s Fairfax Ipsos poll, conducted November 14-17 from a sample of 1,200, gave Labor just a 52-48 lead, a three-point gain for the Coalition …
Waterloo
We still live here: public housing tenants fight for their place in the city
theconversation.com - Pratichi Chatterjee and Alistair Sisson and Jenna Condie and Laura Wynne
After years of strong housing market growth, Sydney’s property market is slowing. Despite this, housing stress remains a reality for many …
Polling
Bainimarama wins again in Fiji, helped by muzzling the media, unions and the church
theconversation.com - Dominic O'Sullivan
Former coup leader Josaia Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama has won re-election in Fiji. But he did so in a country where press freedom is severely limited, …
Business (Australia)
Indonesia matters to us, and always has. Why the relationship will survive Morrison's Jerusalem thought bubble
theconversation.com - Tim Harcourt
All hell broke loose during the Wentworth by-election when Prime Minister Scott Morrison suddenly announced that he was thinking of moving of …

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China's legalisation of rhino horn trade: disaster or opportunity?

Why we should remember Boorong, Bennelong's third wife, who is buried beside him

Here's a tip that could make banks phenomenally successful: radical honesty

Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment

A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we're about to find out how we use our time

City water restrictions hurt our most vulnerable – especially women

Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their 'Black Friday' sales

It's hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused too

With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?

It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works

Households to get $2000 subsidy for batteries under Shorten energy policy

Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?

Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody

If there's one thing Pacific nations don't need, it's yet another infrastructure investment bank

Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research

An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger

Curious Kids: How do moths eat our clothes?

Fresh thinking: the carbon tax that would leave households better off

Why adult video stars rely on camming

If you're feeding with formula, here's what you can do to promote your baby's healthy growth

How much will voters pay for an early Christmas? Eight charts that explain Victoria’s transport election

The Greens set to be tested on a number of fronts in the Victorian election

Why we should worry about Victoria's China memorandum of understanding

A/B testing: how offline businesses are learning from Google to improve profits

Getting clean drinking water into remote Indigenous communities means overcoming city thinking

Victoria votes: your guide to the 2018 election health promises

Poll wrap: Labor's worst polls since Turnbull; chaos likely in Victorian upper house

We still live here: public housing tenants fight for their place in the city

Bainimarama wins again in Fiji, helped by muzzling the media, unions and the church

Indonesia matters to us, and always has. Why the relationship will survive Morrison's Jerusalem thought bubble