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Three charts on: disability discrimination in the workplace

  • Written by: Simon Darcy, Professor of Social Inclusion - UTS Business School - Centres for Business and Social innovation, and Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, University of Technology Sydney
imageMany workplaces do not make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.Shutterstock

Only 53% of Australians with disability are employed, compared to 83% of all working-age people. Australia ranks 21st out of 29 OECD nations when it comes to employment rates for people with a disability.

But looking at the data reveals an even darker story...

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New research reveals the origin of Australia’s extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds

  • Written by: Trevor H. Worthy, Associate professor, Flinders University
imageA pair of _Dromornis planei_, an extinct mihirung bird from Australia, weighed a massive 300 kilograms.Brian Choo, Author provided

Australia’s living flightless birds - the emu and close relative the cassowary - once roamed alongside much larger birds that resembled dinosaurs.

These huge creatures are known as mihirungs, based on the...

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Playboy, Brooke Shields and the fetishisation of young girls

  • Written by: Michelle Smith, Research Fellow in English Literature, Deakin University
imageHugh Hefner in 2001with Playboy 'bunnies'.EPA/Glenn Pinkerton/LVNB

The passing of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner prompted both positive and negative eulogising. From one perspective, he was a revolutionary who helped to dismantle the long-standing secrecy and shame surrounding sexuality. And from another, he simply popularised the objectification of...

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How will Amazon navigate Australia's taxation system?

  • Written by: Roman Lanis, Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney

With Amazon expected to open its doors in Australia this year, questions are being asked about how this US giant with a reputation for tax avoidance in the UK and Europe will navigate the Australian taxation system.

Global firms such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon have come under fire for dodging tax on earnings in various jurisdictions. Such...

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  1. What is mindfulness? Nobody really knows, and that's a problem
  2. Explainer: how do drugs get from the point of discovery to the pharmacy shelf?
  3. Randomised control trials: what makes them the gold standard in medical research?
  4. Oversimplifying gun control issues can pose a real threat to community safety
  5. Curious Kids: Do astronauts get space sick when they travel from Earth to the International Space Station?
  6. Money can't buy me love, but you can put a price on a tree
  7. Some states do better than others on affordable housing – we can learn from the successes
  8. Australian consumer law is failing beer drinkers
  9. Government's energy plan still under wraps while Abbott shouts his from afar
  10. Marriage ballot participation rate passes Irish referendum
  11. The chemicals in firefighting foam aren't the new asbestos
  12. The Great Barrier Reef can repair itself, with a little help from science
  13. Despite the charged atmosphere, Frydenberg and Finkel have the same goal for electricity
  14. Dove, real beauty and the racist history of skin whitening
  15. As China prepares for its Communist Party Congress, what will it mean for the rest of the world?
  16. Blade Runner's problem with women remains unsolved in its sequel
  17. Slashing penalty rates: a misguided response to problems of the past
  18. Grandparents must be included in decisions about children in out-of-home care
  19. Classical Indian dance meets contemporary in Rising
  20. How to talk to your child about suicide
  21. Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing
  22. Do trauma victims really repress memories and can therapy induce false memories?
  23. Northern exposure: fossils of a southern whale found for the first time in the north
  24. Competitive tendering hasn't delivered for public transport, so why reward poor performance?
  25. Construction industry loophole leaves home buyers facing higher energy bills
  26. Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country: a tragic investigation of race on Australia's frontier
  27. High stakes for Turnbull government as High Court hears MPs' citizenship cases
  28. What should Australian companies be doing right now to protect our privacy
  29. How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize
  30. Caravan delivers a glimpse of women on the edge with sweet comedy
  31. Weekly Dose: from laughing parties to whipped cream, nitrous oxide's on the rise as a recreational drug
  32. Tony Abbott, once the 'climate weathervane', has long since rusted stuck
  33. To keep heatwaves at bay, aged care residents deserve better quality homes
  34. The off-topic Conversation #138
  35. After the storm: how political attacks on renewables elevates attention paid to climate change
  36. El Niño in the Pacific has an impact on dolphins over in Western Australia
  37. Five things senators (and everyone else) should know about changes to HELP debts
  38. The Hanson effect: how hate seeps in and damages us all
  39. Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus
  40. Digital media are changing the face of buildings, and urban policy needs to change with them
  41. Ten questions you should ask before sharing data about your customers
  42. Science or Snake Oil: do men need sperm health supplements?
  43. Whatever happened to the 15-hour workweek?
  44. Why is the US trying to shut down Russian security company Kaspersky Lab?
  45. No chance of US gun control despite Las Vegas massacre; NZ left gains two seats after special votes
  46. Nick Xenophon set to go back to where he came from
  47. What the Nobel Prize tells us about the state of economics
  48. Revenge served cold: was Scott of the Antarctic sabotaged by his angry deputy?
  49. Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro shows us the illusion of connection with the world
  50. The reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities

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