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Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia

  • Written by: Tom Lee, Lecturer, Faculty of Design and Architecture Building, University of Technology Sydney

Portable electric drills didn’t always look like oversized handguns.

Before Alonzo G. Decker and Samuel D. Black intervened in the 1910s, the machines typically required the use of both hands. The two men, founders of the eponymous American company Black & Decker, developed a portable electric drill that incorporated a pistol grip and...

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Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism

  • Written by: Nathan Hollier, Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
imageSaturday is Love Your Bookshop Day – but bookshops face many challenges.Shutterstock

There was genuine positivity at this year’s Australian Booksellers’ Association Conference in Melbourne in June. The mood was one of camaraderie and optimism at the sharing of good news. And it only brightened with the news that our National...

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Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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After spending a year immersed in the parliamentary machine, broadcaster-turned-senator Derryn Hinch is keen to see a more efficient Senate.

His suggestions include shortening the length of speeches – and thus the opportunity for filibusters – and trimming supplementary questions. He’s frustrated by the...

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Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem

  • Written by: Cristy Clark, Lecturer in Law, Southern Cross University
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On Wednesday evening, the New South Wales state government passed legislation empowering police to dismantle the Martin Place homeless camp in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. This follows similar actions in Victoria, where police cleared a homeless camp outside Flinders Street Station. Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle proposed a bylaw to ban...

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  1. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  2. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  3. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  4. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  5. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  6. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  7. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  8. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  9. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  10. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  11. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  12. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  13. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
  14. The off-topic Conversation #132
  15. ASEAN's mid-life crisis?
  16. Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago
  17. Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations
  18. The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost
  19. Reward or punishment: finding the best match for your child's personality
  20. What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently
  21. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
  22. Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue
  23. Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint
  24. Prostate cancer testing: has the bubble burst?
  25. How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia
  26. How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation
  27. Some workers 'cyberloaf' if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative
  28. Hanson set to refer Malcolm Roberts to the High Court over dual citizenship questions
  29. Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population
  30. Explainer: how do Australia's proposed citizenship laws compare internationally?
  31. Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football's growth in Australia
  32. 'Gene drives' could wipe out whole populations of pests in one fell swoop
  33. As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV
  34. The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it
  35. Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
  36. Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
  37. What a new map of the universe tells us about dark matter
  38. A closer look at jobless youth in Western Sydney points us to the solutions
  39. Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social
  40. Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance
  41. Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot
  42. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump
  43. Banks can't fight online credit card fraud alone, and neither can you
  44. Explainer: with no free vote for now, where next for marriage equality?
  45. Health Check: in terms of exercise, is walking enough?
  46. 'Mainstream' is not a dirty word
  47. Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage
  48. Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
  49. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  50. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia

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