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Can a tech company build a city? Ask Google

  • Written by: Sarah Barns, Engaged Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation startup owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has announced a partnership with the City of Toronto to develop a new waterfront precinct. Time to ask Google: can you build a city?

The Quayside precinct, dubbed “Sidewalk Toronto”, is to become a 500-hectare sandpit for testing a suite of new...

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Five reasons India, China and other nations plan to travel to the Moon

  • Written by: Marc Norman, Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University
imageA view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft, showing the Earth rising above the moon's horizon (July 1969). NASA

No human has been to the Moon since 1972 and only 12 people have ever done it – all of them American men.

But that list could soon be getting a lot longer.

Why the Moon? Haven’t we already been there, done that? Well, yes. But now...

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Why the fashion industry keeps failing to fix labour exploitation

  • Written by: Kevin B Sobel-Read, Lecturer in Law and Anthropologist, University of Newcastle
imageFour years after the Rana Plaza tragedy and there are still reports of worker exploitation in the garment industry. Shutterstock

Worker exploitation is rampant in the global fashion industry, according to countless investigations, studies and reports. So why haven’t fashion brands cleaned up their acts?

Even if brands want to be part of the...

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Going overboard on religious protections could come back to bite in multicultural Australia

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Be careful what you wish for. Have those pushing for more protections in the same-sex marriage bill, in the name of religious freedom, thought through the consequences of what they are advocating?

At a political level, the calls are coming in particular from Liberal conservatives, Nationals cabinet minister Matt Canavan, and former prime minister...

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  1. Bennelong polls: Galaxy 50-50, ReachTEL 53-47 to Liberal
  2. It's too soon to celebrate a narrowing gender wage gap
  3. Don Dale royal commission demands sweeping change – is there political will to make it happen?
  4. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the same-sex marriage ballot result
  5. Plague outbreak: where does it still exist and could it spread?
  6. Step up Australia, we need a traffic cop in space
  7. From Lord of the Rings to Crocodile Dundee – franchising Australian culture?
  8. Three charts on: what's going on at Manus Island
  9. It's unrealistic to expect MPs to follow the view of the people who elected them every time
  10. A Robert De Niro Theory of Post-Truth: ‘Are you talking to me?’
  11. Australia is a global top-ten deforester – and Queensland is leading the way
  12. The dual citizenship saga shows our Constitution must be changed, and now
  13. Friday essay: when did Australia’s human history begin?
  14. How 'liar loans' undermine sound lending practices
  15. Vital Signs: Australia's mining boom transition is on shaky ground
  16. What prospective parents need to know about gene tests such as 'prepair'
  17. This is how to create social hubs that make 20-minute neighbourhoods work
  18. NAPLAN has done little to improve student outcomes
  19. Grattan on Friday: In 2017 Australia has delivered to LGBTI community but failed its First Peoples
  20. When masturbation on screen isn't maligned
  21. Bee aware, but not alarmed: here's what you need to know about honey bee stings
  22. How the same-sex marriage survey got us talking about – and trusting – data
  23. FactCheck: has Queensland Labor created 'more than four times' as many jobs as the LNP?
  24. Wonder Woman and Aquaman are the only charismatic leads in Justice League
  25. War and democracy – who decides?
  26. The blockchain does not eliminate the need for trust
  27. Why there should be no room in the law for celebrants to discriminate on same-sex marriage
  28. The public should be 'shocked, dismayed and disgusted' at the major banks
  29. Same-sex marriage results crush the idea that Australian voters crave conservatism
  30. The race to save up to 50 shipwrecks from looters in Southeast Asia
  31. The NSW assisted dying bill isn't as robust as Victoria's model
  32. We've found an exo-planet with an extraordinarily eccentric orbit
  33. Don't give up on Pacific Island nations yet
  34. Natural hazard risk: is it just going to get worse or can we do something about it?
  35. NAPLAN only tells part of the story of student achievement
  36. Increasing wages would make the Australian economy safer
  37. Politics podcast: the Greens' Jordon Steele-John on being an 'accidental' senator
  38. High Court strikes again – knocking out replacement senator Hollie Hughes
  39. How social conservatism among ethnic communities drove a strong 'no' vote in western Sydney
  40. Explainer: mass coral spawning, a wonder of the natural world
  41. The road to same-sex marriage support has been long – and the fight isn't over yet
  42. What the numbers say (and don't say) in the same-sex marriage survey
  43. No, you shouldn't eat your placenta, here's why
  44. Full response from One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson for a FactCheck on fathers dying by suicide
  45. The Conversation will no longer be publishing columns
  46. Same-sex marriage result delivers much-needed good news for embattled Turnbull
  47. Same-sex marriage survey by the stats: a resounding 'yes' but western Sydney leads 'no' vote
  48. The marriage equality survey is won, but the battle against discrimination continues
  49. Australians vote overwhelmingly to legalise same-sex marriage
  50. Turnbull is on the winning side on marriage equality, but his troubles are far from over

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