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WA ReachTEL: Labor leads 52-48, One Nation down, Greens up

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

The West Australian election will be held in eight days, on 11 March. A Fairfax ReachTEL poll, conducted Monday night from a sample of 1660, has Labor leading 52-48, a 2 point gain for Labor since a ReachTEL poll for The West Australian, two weeks ago.

ReachTEL asked a main voting intentions question with an undecided option, then further queried...

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A survival guide for the coming AI revolution

  • Written by: Natalie Rens, PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Queensland
imageIt's a good idea to keep an eye out for possible signs of AI.Dog Run Pictures

If the popular media are to be believed, artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to steal your job and threaten life as we know it. If we do not prepare now, we may face a future where AI runs free and dominates humans in society.

The AI revolution is indeed underway. To...

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Now for some good news: regular sex benefits your mental health, too

  • Written by: Ryan Anderson, PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University
imageSex isn't just good for exercise, it has psychological benefits too.from www.shutterstock.com

Everyone has probably heard about the physical benefits of having sex (it helps the immune system, lowers blood pressure, burns calories). But are you aware of the long list of psychological benefits?

Sex eases stress

It’s well known stress can have...

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Three reasons businesses are paying higher dividends rather than investing

  • Written by: Lee Smales, Associate Professor, Finance, Curtin University
imageMore than A$72 billion has been paid in dividends in 2016-17.AAP/Dean Lewins

Typically, low interest rates, together with record profits, would create an environment in which businesses would be happy to invest in new projects – providing a boost to economic growth and jobs. Unfortunately, Australians do not appear to be living in...

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  2. Explainer: where to from here on penalty rates?
  3. Women who commit violent crimes need programs to help them while in prison
  4. How to slash half a billion dollars a year from Australia's drugs bill
  5. The government needs to better enforce the laws it creates, to protect franchise workers
  6. Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
  7. Australia gets its first public display of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
  8. Grattan on Friday: The art of walking, forwards and backwards, and some thoughts on Brandis
  9. Climate change's signature was writ large on Australia's crazy summer of 2017
  10. Australia has kept disabled migrant children out for decades – it's time we gave them protection instead
  11. Where are the working-class characters on today's Australian TV?
  12. Catchphrase to cliché: how corporate-speak became common in our everyday lives
  13. Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces
  14. The mysterious disappearance of health from New South Wales planning laws
  15. Kenneth Arrow's legacy and why elections can be flawed
  16. Why it might be time to reconsider the money spent on genetics research
  17. Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia
  18. How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty
  19. When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey
  20. China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants
  21. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  22. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  23. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  24. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  25. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  26. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  27. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  28. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  29. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  30. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  31. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  32. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  33. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  34. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  35. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  36. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  37. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  38. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  39. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  40. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  41. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  42. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  43. Architecture, undistracted
  44. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  45. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  46. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program
  47. Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education
  48. The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political
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