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Snout, sniff and sneeze: the language of the nose

  • Written by: Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that language is “fossil poetry”. It is made up, he said, of images which “have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin”. Some of that poetry is on the nose.

An extraordinary number of English words associated with the nose begin with the letters sn-. The organ itself can be...

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Census 2016: Women are still disadvantaged by the amount of unpaid housework they do

  • Written by: Leah Ruppanner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne
imageResearch shows women consistently trade time in employment for greater time in domestic work even when their resources are on par with men. f1uffster (Jeanie)/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The first release of data from the 2016 Census shows the typical Australian woman spends between five and 14 hours a week doing unpaid domestic housework. For the typical...

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Tobacco tax hikes are great, so long as you’re not a poor smoker

  • Written by: Katie Hirono, Research Associate, Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation, UNSW
imageIncreases in tobacco taxes hurt low-income smokers, who are already stigmatised.from www.shutterstock.com

Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows.

According to our recently published paper,...

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Three charts on Australia's growing appetite for fast broadband

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia

This piece is part of our new Three Charts series, in which we aim to highlight interesting trends in three simple charts.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest figures on internet activity in Australia show a huge jump in the number of people with advertised speeds of greater than 24 Mbps (that’s megabits per second, a measure of...

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