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How the 'yes' vote will impact workers and HR

  • Written by: Raymond Trau, Lecturer, RMIT University

The conclusive “yes” outcome is great news for millions of Australians and the 841 corporations that support marriage equality. However, the struggle continues to build inclusive workplaces in which all staff feel valued and that they belong.

The marriage equality debate has also created a realisation of the importance of spreading...

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Talking Ordinary: from Simic to Farrell

  • Written by: Kevin Brophy, Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
imageThat sinister rope at the end of the trope reveals Charles Simic's dark sensibility.Shutterstock

Where Robert Frost might write a few lines soundly cut from the solid old tree of language and delivered in his mellifluous White Mountain voice,

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And...

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Adani aside, North Queensland voters care about crime and cost of living

  • Written by: Stewart Lockie, Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
imagePauline Hanson's One Nation will contest ten of 12 northern electorates.Dave Hunt/AAP, CC BY

The controversial Adani mine has dominated national debate around the Queensland election, but voters in the far north of the state are also concerned with crime and cost-of-living pressures, energy and water security.

These aren’t the only issues...

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QLD Election FactCheck: are 'up to 21 fathers' dying by suicide every week?

  • Written by: Samara McPhedran, Senior Research Fellow, Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith University
imageOne Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson, federal leader Pauline Hanson, and one of the party's Queensland election candidates, Tracey Bell-Henselin.Facebook

But the truth of the matter is, we’ve got to see what is going on in that family unit, because there are up to 21 fathers killing themselves every week in this country and people need...

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  3. Time for a global agreement on minerals to fuel the clean energy transition
  4. Three charts on: brain cancer in Australia
  5. Rembrandt, capitalism and great art: the Dutch golden age comes to Sydney
  6. A city that forgets about human connections has lost its way
  7. Shorten goes for broke in byelection with mega stakes for Turnbull
  8. Four reasons Victorian MPs say 'no' to assisted dying, and why they're misleading
  9. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is back: experts respond
  10. Newspoll 55-45 to Labor as Turnbull's better PM lead falls to 2. Qld and Alabama polling
  11. As China flexes its muscles in Antarctica, science is the best diplomatic tool on the frozen continent
  12. Book review: Curing Affluenza takes aim at our all-consuming passions
  13. Australia's tenuous place in the new global economy
  14. Here’s looking at: Pipilotti Rist, Ever Is Over All
  15. What is the best way to respond to the Rohingya crisis: boycott, sanctions or engagement?
  16. Shorten recruits Keneally for Bennelong, as citizenship crisis claims Lambie
  17. Teaching kids 21st century skills early will help prepare them for their future
  18. High energy costs make vulnerable households reluctant to use air conditioning: study
  19. Honey Birdette and the changing attitudes to sex in advertising
  20. Living rooms for rent by the minute outsource the whole idea of home
  21. Demand for people skills is growing faster than demand for STEM skills
  22. Four factors driving the price of Bitcoin
  23. How Victoria's family violence system fails some victims – by assuming they're perpetrators
  24. From 'Leb bread' to 'Leb Kelly', finally we're seeing more Middle Eastern faces on TV
  25. Did they mean to do that? Accident and intent in an octopuses' garden
  26. Violence between residents in nursing homes can lead to death and demands our attention
  27. Alexander Dugin, Eurasianism, and the American election
  28. At APEC, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping revealed different ideas of Asia's economic future
  29. Fossil fuel emissions hit record high after unexpected growth: Global Carbon Budget 2017
  30. Twitter analysis shows Queensland Labor has put Adani behind them
  31. Hanson loses replacement senator – before he is even sworn in
  32. What we can learn from the Warren Buffett of the web
  33. With One Nation on the march, a change to compulsory voting might backfire on Labor
  34. Simon Leys, navigator between worlds – a unique Australian intellectual
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  36. Cormann and Shorten reach deal on citizenship disclosure
  37. Hemp can now be sold as a food in Australia (and it's super good for you)
  38. The gender pay gap is wider in the arts than in other industries
  39. Why big projects like the Adani coal mine won't transform regional Queensland
  40. Small potent doses of illegal drugs are evading authorities but having a huge impact
  41. Portable units and temporary leases free up vacant land for urgent housing needs
  42. What causes breast cancer in women? What we know, don't know and suspect
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  44. Support for standardised tests boils down to beliefs about who benefits from it
  45. Three ways robots can save lives in war
  46. Labor increases Newspoll lead to 55-45% as Shorten moves within striking distance as better PM
  47. Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls
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