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The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime

  • Written by: Tina Rampino, Research Fellow Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland

If you’re a healthy white man, live in the city and come from a wealthy family chances are you’ll be better off than someone with a different ethnicity, gender, or location. We found it’s factors like these that explain at least 8% of income inequality in Australia.

The real percentage might even be a lot higher as our research...

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The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour

  • Written by: Kim Borg, Research Officer at BehaviourWorks Australia within the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
imageAl Gore brings climate change back to the big screen in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Paramount

Climate change has returned to the big screen with the release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. It’s the follow-up to his Oscar-winning documentary from 2006, An Inconvenient Truth, which raised awareness about...

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Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up

  • Written by: Tony Matthews, Lecturer in Urban & Environmental Planning, Griffith University
imageThe BedZED eco-housing development in the UK challenged planning regulations.Tom Chance/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Renewable energy is driving profound changes in cities. It’s happening much more quickly than was expected even five years ago. Responding to climate change, networks of decision-makers, such as the C40 collective of major cities, have...

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  2. New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil
  3. Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
  4. Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
  5. Poo transplants beyond the yuck factor: what works, what doesn't and what we still don't know
  6. FactCheck Q A: is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?
  7. The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares
  8. Post-lobstergate swings to Labor in 4 Vic marginal seats
  9. High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander
  10. A short history of the office
  11. Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it
  12. How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote
  13. Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why
  14. Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth
  15. Dancing brittle stars tell an ancient tale of life and death in brutal seas
  16. The bad buildings scream – lessons from Don Dale and other failed institutions
  17. Tweet streams: how social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health
  18. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
  19. Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment
  20. Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars
  21. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  22. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  23. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  24. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  25. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  26. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism
  27. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  28. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  29. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  30. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  31. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  32. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  33. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  34. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  35. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  36. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  37. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  38. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  39. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  40. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  41. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
  42. The off-topic Conversation #132
  43. ASEAN's mid-life crisis?
  44. Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago
  45. Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations
  46. The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost
  47. Reward or punishment: finding the best match for your child's personality
  48. What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently
  49. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
  50. Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue

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