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Low-income earners are more likely to die early from preventable diseases

  • Written by: Ben Harris, Policy Associate, Australian Health Policy Collaboration, Victoria University
imageIf you're unable to work as much as you want, you can’t build your wealth, so it’s much tougher to improve your health. SeventyFour/Shutterstock

Australians with lower incomes are dying sooner from potentially preventable diseases than their wealthier counterparts, according to our new report.

Australia’s Health Tracker by...

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The new ticketing technology that may make scalping a thing of the past

  • Written by: Keith Parry, Senior Lecturer, Western Sydney University
imageBlair Hughes

As new anti-scalping laws are introduced in Victoria, our research suggests that frustrations with current ticketing systems may be a contributing factor to the continued success of scalpers. But new technologies are on the horizon that will help.

Scalping is the practice of buying event tickets and then on-selling them at a higher...

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Universities are failing their students through poor feedback practices

  • Written by: Michael Henderson, Associate Professor in Educational Technologies, Monash University
imageFor many students, the experience of teacher-led feedback is underwhelming or negative, and they are effectively left to their own devices.Author provided, CC BY-ND

Educators and students often struggle to learn from each other through the use of feedback. Our research into feedback practices has found that students and staff find feedback...

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The economics of ridiculously expensive art

  • Written by: Bronwyn Coate, Lecturer, RMIT University
imageLeonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi recently sold for US$450 million.AAP

What would possess someone to buy Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi for US$450 million? You might think it’s an investment - after all it was previously sold for just US$10,000 in 2005.

From an economic point of view, art can be an investment. Although the research...

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