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Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations

  • Written by: Elizabeth Sheedy, Associate Professor - Financial Risk Management, Macquarie University
imageTraders are less likely to follow policies when companies and co-workers are heavily profit-focused.Shutterstock

Allegations that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been complicit in money laundering is just the latest example of issues with regulatory compliance and risk management in the financial sector.

Our research shows that some of the...

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The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost

  • Written by: Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, PhD Candidate, Arts/Media & Law, UNSW
imageThe sheer weight of stigma is an intergenerational burden passed on – and held by – sex workers.Scarlet Alliance, Author provided

Although sex workers around the world lobby for decriminalisation, sex work law remains controversial. This is the final article in a series exploring sex work and regulatory reform.

Stigma is a mark of...

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Reward or punishment: finding the best match for your child's personality

  • Written by: Rachael Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageDoes your child benefit from a time-out or other method of discipline?from www.shutterstock.com

One of the more frustrating assumptions in the mix of modern parenting advice is the “tabula rasa” idea that all kids are born as identical clean slates.

I suspect the increase in this attitude is partly due to the loss of large families....

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What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently

  • Written by: Tina Bianco-Miotto, Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide
imageA baby's sex determines how they will respond to exposures during pregnancy.from shutterstock.com

Men and women respond differently to diseases and treatments for biological, social and psychological reasons. In this series on Gender Medicine, experts explore these differences and the importance of approaching treatment and diagnosis through a...

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  1. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
  2. Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue
  3. Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint
  4. Prostate cancer testing: has the bubble burst?
  5. How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia
  6. How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation
  7. Some workers 'cyberloaf' if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative
  8. Hanson set to refer Malcolm Roberts to the High Court over dual citizenship questions
  9. Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population
  10. Explainer: how do Australia's proposed citizenship laws compare internationally?
  11. Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football's growth in Australia
  12. 'Gene drives' could wipe out whole populations of pests in one fell swoop
  13. As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV
  14. The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it
  15. Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
  16. Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
  17. What a new map of the universe tells us about dark matter
  18. A closer look at jobless youth in Western Sydney points us to the solutions
  19. Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social
  20. Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance
  21. Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot
  22. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump
  23. Banks can't fight online credit card fraud alone, and neither can you
  24. Explainer: with no free vote for now, where next for marriage equality?
  25. Health Check: in terms of exercise, is walking enough?
  26. 'Mainstream' is not a dirty word
  27. Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage
  28. Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
  29. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  30. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia
  31. This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush
  32. Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV
  33. Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else
  34. When dinosaurs walked the Earth they moved like modern birds
  35. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  36. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  37. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  38. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach
  39. Explainer: what is silicosis and why is this old lung disease making a comeback?
  40. The Conversation's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism
  41. Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
  42. Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'
  43. Man flu is real, but women get more autoimmune diseases and allergies
  44. Our healthcare records outlive us. It's time to decide what happens to the data once we're gone.
  45. Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
  46. A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
  47. Living blanket, water diviner, wild pet: a cultural history of the dingo
  48. Australia doesn't 'get' the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders
  49. How a charter of rights could protect Australians' fundamental freedoms
  50. Liberals face crunch on marriage as Coalition behind in 17th consecutive Newspoll

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