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Women rely on the family home to support them in old age

  • Written by: Rachel Ong, Deputy Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University

Thanks in part to the gender pay gap, the gender wealth gap more than doubled between 2002 and 2014. But our research shows Australian women don’t just trail men in total wealth, they also have less diverse asset portfolios.

Women are more likely than men to have their assets tied up in a family home. This means their finances are more...

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There's something queer about Tumblr

  • Written by: Paul Byron, Associate Lecturer, Macquarie University
imageMore young people are turning online for peer support networks.shutterstock

Tumblr is a site that can leave many adults confused. But for more than 330 million users worldwide it is a visual medium for self-expression where anything from politics to fan groups goes.

What makes Tumblr special is the mix of content you will find there. Think of it...

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Who tilts at windmills? Explaining hostility to renewables

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Studying the catastrophe that has been Australian climate and energy policy these past 30 years is a thoroughly depressing business. When you read great work by Guy Pearse, Clive Hamilton, Maria Taylor and Phillip Chubb, among others, you find yourself asking “why”?

Why were we so stupid, so unrelentingly shortsighted? Why did the...

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Not dead yet: how MP3 changed the way we listen to music

  • Written by: Yanto Browning, Associate lecturer in Music and Sound, Queensland University of Technology
imageMP3 compression of digital audio files made music more portable.Shutterstock?Roger Jegg Fotodesign Jegg.de

First developed almost three decades ago, the MP3 format made large digital audio files relatively small and easy to pass across an internet that was largely accessed via a very slow (by today’s standards) phone dial-up connection.

Now...

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