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Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces

  • Written by: Shanaka Herath, Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
imageApartments near the greenbelt in Vienna are more expensive than otherwise similar apartments in that city.Max Pixel, CC BY

Homes near green amenities are more desirable and more expensive because residents are willing to pay higher prices to gain the many benefits of green spaces. Our research has confirmed, for instance, that apartments near to...

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The mysterious disappearance of health from New South Wales planning laws

  • Written by: Patrick Harris, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
imageThe goal of healthy built environments has been missing from the NSW planning agenda for too long. from www.shutterstock.com

The impacts of urban and regional planning decisions on health are unequivocal. Broadly, the built environment affects people’s health by influencing where we live and work, how we get around and our opportunities for...

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Kenneth Arrow's legacy and why elections can be flawed

  • Written by: Haris Aziz, Conjoint Senior Lecturer UNSW, Senior Research Scientist, Data61
imageThere is no perfect voting rule for three or more options.Shutterstock/Constantin Stanciu shutterstock

Stanford professor Kenneth Arrow was considered one of the most influential economists in history with monumental and lasting contributions to the field. He died in February this year, aged 95.

His work included some explanation for why election...

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Why it might be time to reconsider the money spent on genetics research

  • Written by: Louise Keogh, Associate Professor, Health Sociologist, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
imageGenetic testing has many touted future benefits - but are any of them coming to fruition? from www.shutterstock.com.au

Worldwide, at least US$3 billion is spent every year on genetics research, with half coming from governments. Yet less than 3% of this is spent on research addressing how to incorporate genetics into medical practice, and even less...

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  1. Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia
  2. How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty
  3. When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey
  4. China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants
  5. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  6. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  7. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  8. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  9. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  10. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  11. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  12. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  13. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  14. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  15. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  16. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  17. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  18. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  19. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  20. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  21. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  22. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  23. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  24. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  25. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  26. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  27. Architecture, undistracted
  28. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  29. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  30. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program
  31. Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education
  32. The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political
  33. Leaving the past behind: what became of the anal personality?
  34. Nigeria
  35. Philippines
  36. Iraq
  37. Yemen
  38. Turkey
  39. Syria
  40. Saudi Arabia
  41. Sahel region, Africa
  42. South Sudan
  43. Venezuela
  44. Brazil
  45. United States
  46. India
  47. Afghanistan
  48. Pakistan
  49. North Korea
  50. Indonesia

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What Actually Makes a Good Criminal Lawyer in Melbourne

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Is It Worth Getting Solar Panels in Melbourne?

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How A Diploma Of Project Management Builds Practical Skills For Modern Work Environments

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