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Vital Signs: economics can't explain why unemployment and inflation are both low

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
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Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: an explanation of why central banks can’t deal with...

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New report shows compelling reasons to decriminalise sex work

  • Written by Linda Selvey, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
imageContrary to popular belief, sex workers were more likely than not to report that their work enhanced their wellbeing.Author supplied

We recently studied the health and safety of sex workers in Western Australia. While such a study was conducted in 2007, we were interested to see if the sex industry had changed in the past decade, and to learn more...

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Friday essay: toxic beauty, then and now

  • Written by Michelle Smith, Research Fellow in English Literature, Deakin University
imageBeauty is still understood as a process of ongoing work and maintenance.Shutterstock

Throughout history, humans have been willing to try almost any method or product to improve their physical appearance. In response, enterprising businesses and beauty moguls have conspired to sell us almost anything — from water to poison — in the guise...

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Grattan on Friday: The rift between Brandis and Dutton deepens as the behemoth of Home Affairs rises

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

Immigration minister Peter Dutton got a towelling from the Senate this week when he couldn’t reach a deal with the crossbench on his legislation to toughen requirements for people seeking Australian citizenship.

The bill was to impose a harder – many would say a ridiculously difficult – English test on those wanting to become...

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  1. Jacinda Ardern to become NZ prime minister following coalition announcement
  2. Labour wins NZ election after backing from NZ First. Bankers' SA Galaxy: 31% Lib, 30% SA Best, 26% Labor
  3. By excluding Hannah Mouncey, the AFL's inclusion policy has failed a key test
  4. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady and Cory Bernardi reflect on the marriage postal ballot
  5. #MeToo and Modern Consciousness-Raising
  6. Making voting both simple and secure is a challenge for democracies
  7. Let Google bill you for all your electricity, gas, phone and every other utility
  8. Childhood heart disease has a profound impact and is under-recognised
  9. Gift cards often end up in the bin, but extending their life might not help
  10. What businesses can learn from sports about using algorithms
  11. Rape is a plot device in western literature, sold back to us by Hollywood
  12. Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis
  13. The off-topic Conversation #139
  14. Memo to the IPA: history teaching is driven by student demand, not 'identity politics'
  15. Designing suburbs to cut car use closes gaps in health and wealth
  16. Is Victoria's sentencing regime really more lenient?
  17. Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100
  18. Mount Agung continues to rumble with warnings the volcano could still erupt
  19. Why our brain needs sleep, and what happens if we don’t get enough of it
  20. How gig economy workers will be left short of super
  21. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on being an Incorrigible Optimist
  22. Banded stilts fly hundreds of kilometres to lay eggs that are over 50% of their body mass
  23. X, Y and the genetics of sex: Professor Jenny Graves awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2017
  24. Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?
  25. Why the new banking laws won’t be the slam dunk the government is expecting
  26. Banking's new BEAR is a teddy bear not a grizzly
  27. Bob Brown wins his case, but High Court leaves the door open to laws targeting protesters
  28. The government's energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal's role
  29. Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform
  30. Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react
  31. Ethics by numbers: how to build machine learning that cares
  32. Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?
  33. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  34. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  35. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  36. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  37. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  38. Why craft beer is going corporate
  39. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  40. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  41. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  42. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  43. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  44. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  45. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  46. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  47. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  48. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  49. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  50. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next

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