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Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?

  • Written by: Michael Vardon, Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School, Australian National University
imageWould you pay more if you thought it would help?Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world’s finest natural wonders. It’s also extraordinarily cheap to visit – perhaps too cheap.

While a visit to the reef can be part of an expensive holiday, the daily fee to enter the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park...

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We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land

  • Written by: Chelsea Bond, Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit), The University of Queensland
image'We refuse to appeal to the benevolence of White folk for our lives to matter. We remind them every day that we are still here.'Corey Oakley/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

This article is the second in the Black Lives Matter Everywhere series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the Sydney Democracy Network and the Sydney Peace Foundation. To mark the...

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Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs

  • Written by: Catherine Brown, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Business & Law, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
imageVital Signs takes stock of all the key elements of a city's successes and challenges, and the Melbourne Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation uses this data to guide its grant-making. Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation

Vital Signs is a report that gathers good-quality data about a city from reputable sources to provide a snapshot of its community....

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Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?

  • Written by: Rebekah Boynton, PhD Candidate, James Cook University
imageDon't look down ... do we develop a fear of heights because of past bad experiences or are some of us just born that way?from www.shutterstock.com

If you’ve ever felt your heart race as you looked down from the top of a tall ladder, you’re not alone. But for some people, their distress is far more serious. Simply thinking about climbing...

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  1. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  2. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  3. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  4. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  5. How Melbourne's west was greened
  6. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  7. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  8. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  9. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  10. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC
  11. Why Trump's decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake
  12. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition leads 52-48 as One Nation slumps. Xenophon tied or ahead in SA's Hartley
  13. Shorten promises $1 billion fund to finance manufacturing enterprises
  14. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government reneging on a clean energy target
  15. #LstTxt Tstmnt: an unsent text message can count as a will, in the right circumstances
  16. Research suggests Tony Abbott's climate views are welcome in the Hunter Valley
  17. As the Clean Energy Target fizzles, what might replace it?
  18. Changes to lure young people into private health insurance won't slow increase in premiums
  19. What the Harvey Weinstein case tells us about sexual assault disclosure
  20. Satellites are giving us a commanding view of Earth's carbon cycle
  21. A matter of trust: the checks and balances schools must have to ensure fair funding for disability
  22. Psychology holds key to getting people out before disaster strikes
  23. Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
  24. Three areas to reform federal-state financial relations
  25. Vital Signs: the spooky mortgage risk signs our bankers are ignoring
  26. How the Liberals can fix their gender problem
  27. Don't ignore the mobility scooter. It may just be the future of transport
  28. My child has glue ear – what do I do?
  29. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull close to finalising energy package but can he sell it?
  30. This is what our cities need to do to be truly liveable for all
  31. Democratising super would bring more independent voices to the negotiating table
  32. Looking into their computer-generated eyes: dating in virtual reality
  33. Black Lives Matter is a revolutionary peace movement
  34. I've always wondered: why your nose runs when it's cold
  35. Video explainer: at China's 19th National Party Congress, Xi's vision and legacy are at stake
  36. Weighing up lab-grown steak: the problems with eating meat are not Silicon Valley's to solve
  37. Health Check: does drinking alcohol kill the germs it comes into contact with?
  38. Picturing the unimaginable: a new look at the wreck of the Batavia
  39. Australia's species need an independent champion
  40. Eight simple changes to our neighbourhoods can help us age well
  41. Three charts on: disability discrimination in the workplace
  42. New research reveals the origin of Australia’s extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds
  43. Playboy, Brooke Shields and the fetishisation of young girls
  44. How will Amazon navigate Australia's taxation system?
  45. What is mindfulness? Nobody really knows, and that's a problem
  46. Explainer: how do drugs get from the point of discovery to the pharmacy shelf?
  47. Randomised control trials: what makes them the gold standard in medical research?
  48. Oversimplifying gun control issues can pose a real threat to community safety
  49. Curious Kids: Do astronauts get space sick when they travel from Earth to the International Space Station?
  50. Money can't buy me love, but you can put a price on a tree

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