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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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  3. Why Australia shouldn't fear a wave of trade protectionism
  4. Curious Kids: Why do tears come out of our eyes when we cry?
  5. Can you make a 10-year malt whisky in weeks? The chemistry says yes
  6. 'Australia has no culture': changing the mindset of the cringe
  7. How do we turn a drain into valued green space? First, ask the residents
  8. Stories of sex, stars and sharks amongst the best Australian science writing in 2017
  9. Sustainable shopping: how to rock white sneakers without eco-guilt
  10. In the 'fearless city', Barcelona residents take charge
  11. Why Adani may still get its government loan
  12. Dear Prime Minister: we'd like you to join the call for a ban on killer robots
  13. A criminal record: women and Australian true crime stories
  14. How to use music to fine tune your child for school
  15. It's not just mums who need to avoid alcohol when trying for a baby
  16. With a new futures market, Bitcoin is going mainstream
  17. 2017 is set to be among the three hottest years on record
  18. Turnbull proposes all MPs make declarations on citizenship
  19. Heard of the element erbium? It could pave the way to a quantum internet
  20. Thunderstorm asthma: who's at risk and how to manage it
  21. What the NRA can teach us about the art of public persuasion
  22. How we discovered a new species of orangutan in northern Sumatra
  23. Why we are banning tourists from climbing Uluru
  24. The off-topic Conversation #141
  25. Gay rebels: why some older homosexual men don't support same-sex marriage
  26. Three charts on the state of STIs and blood-borne viruses in Australia
  27. The fear that dare not speak its name: how language plays a role in the assisted dying debate
  28. Tutors are key to reducing Indigenous student drop out rates
  29. A fleeting visit: an asteroid from another planetary system just shot past Earth
  30. Chinese personal shoppers have created a new type of retail store in Australia
  31. Five reasons not to spray the bugs in your garden this summer
  32. This is what Australia's growing cities need to do to avoid running dry
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  34. Qld Galaxy: 52-48 to Labor but One Nation up. Why Labor's Adani support a vote loser
  35. Shorten urges MPs all disclose citizenship to parliament
  36. Forget turning straw into gold, farmers can turn trash into energy
  37. Three proven psychological treatments for young people that need to be funded
  38. Why are talks over an East Antarctic marine park still deadlocked?
  39. Bonn voyage: climate diplomats head into another round of talks
  40. As a human, I don't do technology. I _am_ technology
  41. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's Parry problem
  42. Why have female gun homicides in Australia declined significantly since 1996?
  43. Celebrate The Conversation book launch in your closest capital city
  44. The ethics of medical practice in offshore detention facilities
  45. Forcing the banks to hand over our credit history might help with a home loan but it has risks
  46. The Conversation is fact checking the Queensland election -- and we want to hear from you
  47. Why horse-racing in Australia needs a social licence to operate
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