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Contested spaces: we shall fight on the beaches...

  • Written by: Michelle Voyer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
imagePeople go to the beach in large numbers and for many different reasons, and sometimes that's a recipe for conflict.tazzymoto from www.shutterstock.com

This is the first article in our Contested Spaces series. These pieces look at the conflicting uses, expectations and norms that people bring to public spaces, the clashes that result and how we can...

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Four cultural clashes that are holding East Asian employees back

  • Written by: Betina Szkudlarek, Senior Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Management, Discipline of International Business, University of Sydney
imageCultural differences between Eastern and Western employees in the workplace are a factor in the loss of company performance. www.shutterstock.com

Cultural misunderstandings are holding back East Asian employees from reaching their full potential in the workplace. This is a problem for employers because employees from East Asian countries such as...

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'Claim the sky': a new climate movement for the Trump era

  • Written by: Robert Costanza, Professor and Chair in Public Policy at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

President Donald Trump is making it less likely the United States will meet the emissions targets it agreed at the 2015 Paris climate conference. These targets are themselves insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement’s overall goal of keeping global warming well within 2℃.

But there is another possibility for those who want action. The...

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The role of pharmacists should be overhauled, taking the heat off GPs

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imagePharmacists should be trusted to issue repeat prescriptions and adjust dosages, according to a new report. from www.shutterstock.com.au

A Grattan Institute report released today, Cutting a better drug deal, calls for a major shake-up of pharmacies and pharmaceutical pricing.

The market for retail pharmacies is highly regulated. States regulate who...

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  1. Pop with purpose: in defence of Justin Bieber
  2. Driverless cars, just imagine how we could use them
  3. Scott Morrison says budget will remember the renters
  4. Turnbull rounds on Pauline Hanson
  5. Election fever doesn’t grip WA
  6. The Secret River exquisitely illuminates the unspeakable under the stars
  7. In places where it's legal, how many people are ending their lives using euthanasia?
  8. Former ambassador Jeffrey Bleich speaks on Trump, disruptive technology, and the role of education in a changing economy
  9. WA ReachTEL: Labor leads 52-48, One Nation down, Greens up
  10. A survival guide for the coming AI revolution
  11. Now for some good news: regular sex benefits your mental health, too
  12. Three reasons businesses are paying higher dividends rather than investing
  13. Foreign policy white paper should reflect the uncertainty of our times
  14. Explainer: where to from here on penalty rates?
  15. Women who commit violent crimes need programs to help them while in prison
  16. How to slash half a billion dollars a year from Australia's drugs bill
  17. The government needs to better enforce the laws it creates, to protect franchise workers
  18. Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
  19. Australia gets its first public display of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
  20. Grattan on Friday: The art of walking, forwards and backwards, and some thoughts on Brandis
  21. Climate change's signature was writ large on Australia's crazy summer of 2017
  22. Australia has kept disabled migrant children out for decades – it's time we gave them protection instead
  23. Where are the working-class characters on today's Australian TV?
  24. Catchphrase to cliché: how corporate-speak became common in our everyday lives
  25. Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces
  26. The mysterious disappearance of health from New South Wales planning laws
  27. Kenneth Arrow's legacy and why elections can be flawed
  28. Why it might be time to reconsider the money spent on genetics research
  29. Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia
  30. How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty
  31. When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey
  32. China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants
  33. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  34. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  35. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  36. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  37. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  38. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  39. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  40. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  41. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  42. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  43. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  44. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  45. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  46. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  47. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  48. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  49. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  50. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C

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