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Gift cards often end up in the bin, but extending their life might not help

  • Written by Nicole Ibbett, Lecturer - School of Business (Accounting), Western Sydney University
imageSome gift cards can't be used onlineShutterstock

The New South Wales Parliament is introducing legislation, creating a three year minimum expiry date on gift cards. This reform will go some ways towards solving the problem of unredeemed gift cards. But there are other issues besides short expiry dates.

Research from the United States, which has a fiv...

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What businesses can learn from sports about using algorithms

  • Written by Uri Gal, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
imageSport algorithms aren't working for business.Shutterstock

You may have heard that algorithms will take over the world. But how are they operating right now? We take a look in our series on Algorithms at Work.

Replacing human decision-making with algorithms seems to make sense. People tend to rely on unreliable cognitive shortcuts, get fatigued or...

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Rape is a plot device in western literature, sold back to us by Hollywood

  • Written by Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor of Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageHarvey Weinstein: the allegations against him cast a spotlight on the stories we prize in literature and film.Paul Buck/EPA

Woody Allen said it was “sad”. Quentin Tarantino said he needed to nurse his own “pain” and “emotions” about the revelations. Oliver Stone took it further – it was not just that he...

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Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

  • Written by Peter Christoff, Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne

When China’s national carbon market is launched later this year it will be the world’s second-largest carbon market, after the European emissions trading scheme (ETS), which it will eventually overtake.

In sharp contrast, the absence of an explicit carbon price in Australia and persistent turbulence and confusion around domestic energy...

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  1. The off-topic Conversation #139
  2. Memo to the IPA: history teaching is driven by student demand, not 'identity politics'
  3. Designing suburbs to cut car use closes gaps in health and wealth
  4. Is Victoria's sentencing regime really more lenient?
  5. Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100
  6. Mount Agung continues to rumble with warnings the volcano could still erupt
  7. Why our brain needs sleep, and what happens if we don’t get enough of it
  8. How gig economy workers will be left short of super
  9. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on being an Incorrigible Optimist
  10. Banded stilts fly hundreds of kilometres to lay eggs that are over 50% of their body mass
  11. X, Y and the genetics of sex: Professor Jenny Graves awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2017
  12. Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?
  13. Why the new banking laws won’t be the slam dunk the government is expecting
  14. Banking's new BEAR is a teddy bear not a grizzly
  15. Bob Brown wins his case, but High Court leaves the door open to laws targeting protesters
  16. The government's energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal's role
  17. Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform
  18. Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react
  19. Ethics by numbers: how to build machine learning that cares
  20. Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?
  21. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  22. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  23. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  24. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  25. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  26. Why craft beer is going corporate
  27. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  28. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  29. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  30. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  31. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  32. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  33. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  34. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  35. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  36. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  37. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  38. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  39. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  40. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  41. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  42. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  43. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  44. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  45. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  46. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  47. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  48. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  49. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  50. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan

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