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Snapchat's share price already fading as fast as one of its user's photos

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Snapchat’s lofty valuation on the stock market lasted just a little bit longer than one of its user’s disappearing photos. On its third day of trading on the NY Stock Exchange, Snapchat’s parent company Snap’s share price, fell over 12% to below its IPO launch price of US $24 last Thursday. At the...

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Politics podcast: election report from the West

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

In the first of three Conversation podcasts on the Western Australian election, we talk to Natalie Mast at the University of Western Australia, Premier Colin Barnett and ABC election analyst Antony Green.

Saturday’s election potentially carries a hefty national punch.

The polls are running strongly against the Liberal government. If Colin...

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Is there a test your child can take before getting vaccinated, as Pauline Hanson said?

  • Written by: Kristine Macartney, Associate Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney

During an exchange with journalist Barrie Cassidy on the ABC television program Insiders, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson suggested there are tests available to see if children will have an adverse reaction to vaccinations.

HANSON: Barrie, some of these - parents are saying - vaccinations have an effect on some children. Go and have your tests...

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ABC restructuring: leaner, but hopefully not meaner

  • Written by: Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Today’s long-awaited announcement of restructuring at the ABC highlights two directions for change in the coming year and beyond. Both are welcome.

More money will be spent on content production and delivery, and less on management, which some would say is always a good principle on which to run big public sector corporations....

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  2. Why do specialists get paid so much and does something need to be done about it?
  3. Why women make the best stock traders
  4. Australia's almost a world leader in home building, so that isn't a fix for affordability
  5. Five-yearly environmental stocktake highlights the conflict between economy and nature
  6. How to protect your private data when you travel to the United States
  7. Millennials in the workplace: not as different as you think
  8. Hidden fees and the lowdown on Macquarie's latest way to make money
  9. Explainer: what are blood groups and why do they matter?
  10. Company results: how competition is transforming Australia's retail sector
  11. How clergy became scapegoats of the sex abuse crisis in the Anglican Church
  12. The Nintendo Switch breaks convention but lacks a killer app
  13. Please don't do your own research on immunisation; you'll get it wrong
  14. Fake news – a user's guide
  15. The case for renationalising Australia's electricity grid
  16. Love meat too much to be vegetarian? Go 'flexitarian'
  17. Betroffenheit, when the mind and body get stuck
  18. Contested spaces: who belongs on the street where you live?
  19. Colonoscopy: nothing to fear from the 'silver stallion'
  20. How new hepatitis C drugs could tackle liver cancer, too
  21. Tax laws are not keeping up with our globally mobile workforce: new research
  22. Barrie Kosky's Saul: a masterpiece of operatic staging
  23. Trump and Brexit won't kill globalisation – we're too far in
  24. Barnett government looks set for defeat as One Nation looms large in WA election
  25. Contested spaces: we shall fight on the beaches...
  26. Four cultural clashes that are holding East Asian employees back
  27. 'Claim the sky': a new climate movement for the Trump era
  28. The role of pharmacists should be overhauled, taking the heat off GPs
  29. Pop with purpose: in defence of Justin Bieber
  30. Driverless cars, just imagine how we could use them
  31. Scott Morrison says budget will remember the renters
  32. Turnbull rounds on Pauline Hanson
  33. Election fever doesn’t grip WA
  34. The Secret River exquisitely illuminates the unspeakable under the stars
  35. In places where it's legal, how many people are ending their lives using euthanasia?
  36. Former ambassador Jeffrey Bleich speaks on Trump, disruptive technology, and the role of education in a changing economy
  37. WA ReachTEL: Labor leads 52-48, One Nation down, Greens up
  38. A survival guide for the coming AI revolution
  39. Now for some good news: regular sex benefits your mental health, too
  40. Three reasons businesses are paying higher dividends rather than investing
  41. Foreign policy white paper should reflect the uncertainty of our times
  42. Explainer: where to from here on penalty rates?
  43. Women who commit violent crimes need programs to help them while in prison
  44. How to slash half a billion dollars a year from Australia's drugs bill
  45. The government needs to better enforce the laws it creates, to protect franchise workers
  46. Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
  47. Australia gets its first public display of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
  48. Grattan on Friday: The art of walking, forwards and backwards, and some thoughts on Brandis
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