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Vital Signs: the spooky mortgage risk signs our bankers are ignoring

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageThere are signs our frothy housing market, combined with rising interest rates, could have serious consequences for our economy.Nick Vidal-Hall/Flickr, CC BY-SA

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...

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How the Liberals can fix their gender problem

  • Written by: Anika Gauja, Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
imageThere are five women in the Turnbull government cabinet, making up just 24% of members.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Faced with some pretty sobering figures, the Liberal Party has again ignited debate over how best to increase women’s representation in parliament.

Across all parliaments in Australia, women make up only 24% of Liberal Party MPs, compared to...

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Don't ignore the mobility scooter. It may just be the future of transport

  • Written by: Thomas Birtchnell, Senior lecturer, University of Wollongong
imageMobility scooter user Linda Thompson.Paul Jones/University of Wollongong, Author provided

Nationals senator John Williams wants to limit the speed of mobility scooters.

His campaign shines a spotlight on an often overlooked piece of technology, one that could offer lessons for our transport future.

A mobility scooter is a single-person electric...

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My child has glue ear – what do I do?

  • Written by: Chris Brennan-Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia
imageRepeated ear infections and prolonged episodes of glue ear can result in permanent hearing loss.from shutterstock.com

Around one in four Australian children will have recurrent ear infections in their first three years of life. This decreases as children get older. But by the time children start school, one in ten will still have glue ear, which...

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  1. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull close to finalising energy package but can he sell it?
  2. This is what our cities need to do to be truly liveable for all
  3. Democratising super would bring more independent voices to the negotiating table
  4. Looking into their computer-generated eyes: dating in virtual reality
  5. Black Lives Matter is a revolutionary peace movement
  6. I've always wondered: why your nose runs when it's cold
  7. Video explainer: at China's 19th National Party Congress, Xi's vision and legacy are at stake
  8. Weighing up lab-grown steak: the problems with eating meat are not Silicon Valley's to solve
  9. Health Check: does drinking alcohol kill the germs it comes into contact with?
  10. Picturing the unimaginable: a new look at the wreck of the Batavia
  11. Australia's species need an independent champion
  12. Eight simple changes to our neighbourhoods can help us age well
  13. Three charts on: disability discrimination in the workplace
  14. New research reveals the origin of Australia’s extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds
  15. Playboy, Brooke Shields and the fetishisation of young girls
  16. How will Amazon navigate Australia's taxation system?
  17. What is mindfulness? Nobody really knows, and that's a problem
  18. Explainer: how do drugs get from the point of discovery to the pharmacy shelf?
  19. Randomised control trials: what makes them the gold standard in medical research?
  20. Oversimplifying gun control issues can pose a real threat to community safety
  21. Curious Kids: Do astronauts get space sick when they travel from Earth to the International Space Station?
  22. Money can't buy me love, but you can put a price on a tree
  23. Some states do better than others on affordable housing – we can learn from the successes
  24. Australian consumer law is failing beer drinkers
  25. Government's energy plan still under wraps while Abbott shouts his from afar
  26. Marriage ballot participation rate passes Irish referendum
  27. The chemicals in firefighting foam aren't the new asbestos
  28. The Great Barrier Reef can repair itself, with a little help from science
  29. Despite the charged atmosphere, Frydenberg and Finkel have the same goal for electricity
  30. Dove, real beauty and the racist history of skin whitening
  31. As China prepares for its Communist Party Congress, what will it mean for the rest of the world?
  32. Blade Runner's problem with women remains unsolved in its sequel
  33. Slashing penalty rates: a misguided response to problems of the past
  34. Grandparents must be included in decisions about children in out-of-home care
  35. Classical Indian dance meets contemporary in Rising
  36. How to talk to your child about suicide
  37. Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing
  38. Do trauma victims really repress memories and can therapy induce false memories?
  39. Northern exposure: fossils of a southern whale found for the first time in the north
  40. Competitive tendering hasn't delivered for public transport, so why reward poor performance?
  41. Construction industry loophole leaves home buyers facing higher energy bills
  42. Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country: a tragic investigation of race on Australia's frontier
  43. High stakes for Turnbull government as High Court hears MPs' citizenship cases
  44. What should Australian companies be doing right now to protect our privacy
  45. How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize
  46. Caravan delivers a glimpse of women on the edge with sweet comedy
  47. Weekly Dose: from laughing parties to whipped cream, nitrous oxide's on the rise as a recreational drug
  48. Tony Abbott, once the 'climate weathervane', has long since rusted stuck
  49. To keep heatwaves at bay, aged care residents deserve better quality homes
  50. The off-topic Conversation #138

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