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Full response from Airtasker CEO Tim Fung

  • Written by: Josh Nicholas, Deputy Editor Business & Economy, The Conversation

In relation to this story on the agreement between Unions NSW and Airtasker, The Conversation asked the following questions of Airtasker CEO Tim Fung.

Questions from The Conversation in bold.

1) Is Airtasker setting a minimum wage for the workers on its platform?

We’ve updated our price guide to reflect award wages (or higher) as advised by...

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Police officer suicide: it's not just about workplace stress, but culture too

  • Written by: Karl Roberts, Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice, Western Sydney University
imageRecently, police services have begun to set in place strategies designed to improve the response to mental health problems among their members.shutterstock

The inquest into the tragic death of former New South Wales police detective Ashley Bryant highlights the issue of suicide among police officers.

Central to the inquest has been considerations of...

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Food as medicine: why do we need to eat so many vegetables and what does a serve actually look like?

  • Written by: Genevieve James-Martin, Research Dietitian, CSIRO
imageWhy do we need so many serves of vegetables in a day?Unsplash/Jonathan Pielmayer, CC BY-SA

This is the first article in a three-part package “food as medicine”, exploring how food prevents and cures disease.


Most Australian adults would know they’re meant to eat two or more serves of fruit and five or more serves of vegetables...

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New to Australia? Good luck! Migrants can no longer afford 'gateway' suburbs

  • Written by: Hazel Easthope, Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
imageMigrants can no longer afford to live in the 'gateway' suburbs that once helped them to leave the ranks of the 'disadvantaged' and feel at home in their new country. Jack Wright/flickr, CC BY-NC

The concentration of disadvantaged people in certain parts of cities is almost always seen as undesirable by urban researchers and policymakers. But is...

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  1. Curious Kids: Why don’t cats wear shoes?
  2. Bob Brown takes to the High Court to put hardline anti-protest laws to the test
  3. A new literary portrait of Helen Garner leaves you wanting to know more
  4. Protecting young people's privacy as Facebook claims it can identify their anxieties
  5. Turnbull announces schools funding and a new Gonski review
  6. Chasing the audience: is it over and out for cricket on free to air TV?
  7. Charter schools and vouchers not a solution for Australian schooling
  8. WA's economic mismanagement is not a reason to review how the GST is carved up
  9. Higher education reform: small changes for now but big ones to come
  10. Government to build second Sydney airport
  11. How 3D food printers could improve mealtimes for people with swallowing disorders
  12. When exploiting kids for cash goes wrong on YouTube: the lessons of DaddyOFive
  13. Three charts on: crane-spotting, a way to tell which Australian cities are growing and where
  14. Google, Facebook fall into line on tax, but eBay remains defiant
  15. Affordable housing is not just about the purchase price
  16. Who goes to MONA? Peering behind the 'flannelette curtain'
  17. Change Agents: David Buchanan and Fr Paul Kelly on ending the gay panic defence
  18. Rather than capping tax revenue, the government should reform the system
  19. A short history of anaesthesia: from unspeakable agony to unlocking consciousness
  20. The hunt for the Superstars of STEM to engage more women in science
  21. The solar panel and battery revolution: how will your state measure up?
  22. The bark side: domestic dogs threaten endangered species worldwide
  23. 2017 higher education reform: cuts to universities, higher fees for students
  24. University students to pay more as government looks to $2.8 billion saving
  25. FactCheck Q A: do 80% of Australians and up to 70% of Catholics and Anglicans support euthanasia laws?
  26. Why Chinese investors find Australian real estate so alluring
  27. Politics podcast: Jane Halton on how to make a federal budget
  28. Men can help women deal with their PMS
  29. Action on problem gambling online is a good first step, but no silver bullet
  30. The off-topic Conversation #121
  31. Australian values are hardly unique when compared to other cultures
  32. Five ways an Australian housing bubble could burst
  33. Missing in action: the ABC and Australia’s screen culture
  34. Money given to GPs from ending the Medicare rebate freeze should target reform
  35. Your sons and your daughters: mental health in the age of overtime
  36. We should create cities for slowing down
  37. From bakery to wagashiya: a textbook case of 'moral education' in Japan
  38. Fighting the common fate of humans: to better life and beat death
  39. Climate change could drive coastal food webs to collapse
  40. Fruit juicers and hair brushes are now part of the Internet of (useless) Things
  41. GST carve-up to be examined by the Productivity Commission
  42. Queensland Galaxy: 52-48 to Labor as One Nation slumps
  43. Wittgenstein and the Dangers of Certainty
  44. Malcolm Turnbull leaves Julie Bishop in the hot seat in Abdel-Magied affair
  45. How Australia should react to the Trump tax cuts
  46. Government's oil and gas tax response will leave regional communities at a loss
  47. Trigger Warnings, Evidence-Based Policy and Media Literacy
  48. Inventing the Wicked Witch: Review of Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
  49. Van Gogh and the Seasons is a sensitively curated crowd-pleaser despite a paucity of masterpieces
  50. Why we shouldn't ignore what 13 Reasons Why is trying to tell us

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