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Sex and the City, Santiago style, where they're serving up 'coffee with legs'

  • Written by: Christine Steinmetz, Senior Lecturer in Built Environment, UNSW
imageAround 100 coffee shops known as _café con piernas_ – coffee with legs – operate within a five-kilometre radius of the Santiago CBD.Babak Fakhamzadeh/flickr, CC BY-NC

It’s hardly surprising for a country that claims 74% Christianity, only decriminalised homosexuality in 1999 and finally legalised divorce in 2004, that...

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There is no apprenticeships 'crisis' in Australia

  • Written by: Peter Noonan, Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University
imageWhen separating out apprenticeships and traineeships, it becomes clear that apprenticeships are not in crisis.Shutterstock/SpeedKingz

It’s rare to find an issue that unites both sides of politics, employers and trade unions, yet these unlikely allies have all claimed there is an apprenticeships “crisis”.

In 2016, Labor leader...

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Grattan on Friday: If defeat comes, what then for the Liberals' succession?

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThe conservatives' strategy is to reap what victories they can while Malcolm Turnbull leads.Dean Lewins/AAP

If the Turnbull government’s present agonies become death throes and the election is lost, coping with opposition will test to its very core a Liberal Party that in power has been fractured and self-indulgent.

For a start, would the...

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Don't expect the Grameen Bank's microfinance model to pay off for Australians

  • Written by: Katherine Hunt, Lecturer in Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University

The Grameen Bank, a pioneer in lending to the financially vulnerable in the developing world, is partnering a community bank in rural New South Wales. Grameen Bank specialises in giving small loans, also called microfinance, to people who use it to pay for things such as a new roof or to small businesses, to buy stock for example.

But to be legally...

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  8. Lasers and dung beetles: the 2017 Eureka Prizes celebrate the best of Australian science
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