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Income inequality may be declining but financial vulnerability is increasing

  • Written by: Kristy Muir, Professor of Social Policy / Research Director, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW
imageThe number of Australians with no savings has increased.Shutterstock

If you needed A$2,000 in a hurry where would you get it? 70% of those we surveyed said they would ask friends or family, although almost half said that it’s very or fairly unlikely that their social connections could help.

This is just one of the takeaways from our new report,...

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Ice mined on Mars could provide water for humans exploring space

  • Written by: Sophia Casanova, PhD Candidate - Mining Engineering, UNSW
imageThere is water on Mars - but it's buried, and frozen. from www.shutterstock.com

As humans spread out across the Earth, the locations of new colonies were driven by the accessibility of resources: not only food and water, but also arable land, forests and minerals.

Access to such resources remains important as the economy moves into space. Here,...

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Countdown - just nostalgia, or still breaking new ground?

  • Written by: Liz Giuffre, Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
imageShirley from Skyhooks in CountdownABC

Audiences of a certain age still gush about Countdown, the ABC’s music show that ran between 1974 and 1987. The ritual of sitting down to watch the ABC at 6pm on a Sunday (and maybe again for the Saturday repeat) is one that many remember fondly. The lucky might catch old Countdown episodes during music...

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An ABC News story shows how strange going viral can be

  • Written by: Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

ABC News has now firmly established itself as the nation’s third most visited online news source, according to data from the Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX). But one specific ABC News story shows social media’s power to reach large and unexpected audiences.

A republication of a Conversation article exploring what the bible really...

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  2. Mission over: the final countdown to Cassini's fatal plunge into Saturn
  3. Friday essay: recognising the unsung heroes of Australia's AIDS crisis
  4. The year of living ineffectually: 2017 proves shaky for the centre-left
  5. After 30 years of the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer is gradually healing
  6. People-friendly furniture in public places matters more than ever in today's city
  7. Science or snake oil: is manuka honey really a 'superfood' for treating colds, allergies and infections?
  8. Indonesia challenges Australia's anti-dumping measures at the WTO
  9. Grattan on Friday: King Coal is wearing big boots in the Turnbull government
  10. The Lionel Murphy papers shed more light on a controversial life
  11. Australians pay more for education than the OECD average – but is it worth it?
  12. We can use AFL to boost school attendance and improve mental health in Indigenous communities
  13. We're on our way to making whistleblower protections more than theoretical
  14. Rebel Wilson's $4.5 million win a sobering reminder that defaming a celebrity can be costly
  15. Where the accountability problems started at CBA
  16. Gay-identifying AI tells us more about stereotypes than the origins of sexuality
  17. While the world frets over North Korea, what to do about Iran also causes headaches
  18. My favourite album: Yothu Yindi's Tribal Voice
  19. With iPhone X, Apple is hoping to augment reality for the everyman
  20. Media reform deals will reduce diversity and amount to little more than window dressing
  21. University cuts – the dire implications for the creative arts
  22. The off-topic Conversation #136
  23. Predicting disaster: better hurricane forecasts buy vital time for residents
  24. Votes for corporations and extra votes for property owners: why local council elections are undemocratic
  25. Power naps and meals don't always help shift workers make it through the night
  26. Decoding the music masterpieces: Shostakovich's Babi Yar
  27. North Korea tests not just a bomb but the global nuclear monitoring system
  28. How skills and personality traits contribute to the gender pay gap
  29. Government set to win Senate support for media deregulation
  30. More coal doesn’t equal more peak power
  31. So you bought the new iPhone? Here are your rights if it breaks
  32. The secrets of Titan: Cassini searched for the building blocks of life on Saturn's largest moon
  33. My favourite album: The Beastie Boys' Ill Communication
  34. Explainer: how does the sea 'disappear' when a hurricane passes by?
  35. Health Check: is margarine actually better for me than butter?
  36. A bloody decade of the iPhone
  37. Income inequality ticks down as the rich see their incomes fall: ABS
  38. Talking about suicide and self-harm in schools can save lives
  39. Is evidence for or against drug-testing welfare recipients? It depends on the result we're after
  40. Marriage vote: how advocacy ads exploit our emotions in divisive debates
  41. How Antarctic ice melt can be a tipping point for the whole planet's climate
  42. Sydney's Cloud Arch critics and our mean-spirited approach to public art
  43. Curious Kids: Why it is that the things close to the train windows zoom by really fast, but things further away seem to go by much slower?
  44. Ancient volcanic eruptions disrupted Earth's thermostat, creating a 'Snowball' planet
  45. Google architecture and what do you see? And what's a building without people?
  46. Despite the leaks, Apple's new products will still excite its fans
  47. Anti-vilification legislation for marriage ballot to pass this week
  48. Treating AGL with public contempt seems hardly the way to get the best outcome
  49. Ipsos 53-47 to Labor, but Shorten's ratings slump; Qld Newspoll 53-47 to Labor
  50. Can a federal court case against pokies succeed where politics has failed?

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