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A fragmented streaming video market is good for everyone but the consumer

  • Written by: Marc C-Scott, Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
imageDisney is leaving Netflix. Is the streaming market becoming too fragmented?pixinoo/Shutterstock

Streaming video platforms were meant to put choice back in the hands of the viewer. They’d be able to watch the content they wanted, when they wanted. But the growing fragmentation of the on-demand market threatens to leave consumers worse off.

While...

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No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems

  • Written by: Kristine Macartney, Associate Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
imageParents are concerned combination vaccines, which protect against several diseases at once, can be too much for a young immune system to cope with.from www.shutterstock.com

No parent likes seeing their child have injections. Yet, around 93% of parents across Australia protect their children against 15 serious diseases by giving them all the...

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On brand: how Australia's apartment frenzy echoes the 1870s cattle boom

  • Written by: Stephen Banham, Lecturer in Typography, RMIT University
imageMelbourne, city of cranes.Image from www.shutterstock.com

Imagine in the years ahead that you were to come across a photograph of the Melbourne streetscape from 2017. Two things would immediately signify it as being from today – the number of cranes across the skyline and at street level, the construction hoardings glistening with glamourous...

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Royal commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it's time to act

  • Written by: Michael Salter, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Western Sydney University
imageDebates over whether priests should break the confessional seal if they hear reports of abuse in confession are largely symbolic.shutterstock

Adult survivors of child sexual abuse have long complained about police disinterest in so-called “historical” sexual abuse complaints: when a report is made years after the alleged offence. The...

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  1. Book review: The New Puberty
  2. What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years
  3. What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin
  4. What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  5. The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime
  6. The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour
  7. The science of being 'nice': how politeness is different from compassion
  8. Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
  9. 'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use
  10. New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil
  11. Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
  12. Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
  13. Poo transplants beyond the yuck factor: what works, what doesn't and what we still don't know
  14. FactCheck Q A: is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?
  15. The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares
  16. Post-lobstergate swings to Labor in 4 Vic marginal seats
  17. High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander
  18. A short history of the office
  19. Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it
  20. How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote
  21. Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why
  22. Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth
  23. Dancing brittle stars tell an ancient tale of life and death in brutal seas
  24. The bad buildings scream – lessons from Don Dale and other failed institutions
  25. Tweet streams: how social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health
  26. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
  27. Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment
  28. Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars
  29. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  30. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  31. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  32. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  33. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  34. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism
  35. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  36. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  37. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  38. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  39. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  40. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  41. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  42. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  43. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  44. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  45. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  46. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  47. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  48. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  49. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
  50. The off-topic Conversation #132

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