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Closing Uluru to climbers is better for tourism in the long run

  • Written by: Michelle Whitford, Associate Professor of Indigenous Tourism, Griffith University
imageThe Anangu people actually offer visitors a range of eco-cultural tourism activities that focus on sharing Indigenous culture, knowledge and traditions.Leo Li/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Closing Uluru to climbers empowers Indigenous people to teach visitors about their culture on their own terms, which is more sustainable for tourism in the long run.

Uluru is...

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You may be sick of worrying about online privacy, but 'surveillance apathy' is also a problem

  • Written by: Siobhan Lyons, Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
imageDo you care if your data is being used by third parties? from www.shutterstock.com

We all seem worried about privacy. Though it’s not only privacy itself we should be concerned about: it’s also our attitudes towards privacy that are important.

When we stop caring about our digital privacy, we witness surveillance apathy.

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Three strategies to fight the tax avoidance revealed by the Paradise Papers

  • Written by: Roman Lanis, Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
imageThe first strategy is to require the public disclosure of country by country reporting of company tax affairs.Shutterstock

The release of more than 13 million financial and tax documents known as the “Paradise Papers” show that the Panama Papers last year and LuxLeaks in 2014 were just the tip of the tax avoidance iceberg. It also shows...

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Infections, complications and safety breaches: why patients need better data on how hospitals compare

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageInformation on patients' experiences with their hospital care is often not reported back to public hospitals at unit or ward level.Shutterstock/PongMoji

Australia’s health system is an information industry – it is awash with data. Tragically, though, the data is not well collated, not put into the hands of the people responsible for...

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