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Is NBN Co's CEO right that Australians aren't interested in ultra-fast broadband?

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageAre Australian's uninterested in speed?NBN Co

Whilst announcing NBN Co’s 2017 half year results, CEO Bill Morrow stated that there was little market demand for faster broadband speeds than the 100 Mbps being currently offered on the NBN.

Morrow made the remarks after being asked when Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would offer internet...

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Increased private health insurance premiums don't mean increased value

  • Written by: Karen Willis, Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University

A topic of discussion at many barbecues this summer will inevitably be private health insurance. Is it worth it? Do we need it? Every year it gets more expensive. The average 4.8% increase in premiums just announced will have more Australians raising these questions, and debating with their friends how much they value choice of doctor, reduced...

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Black holes are even stranger than you can imagine

  • Written by: Alister Graham, Professor of Astronomy, Swinburne University of Technology
imageAn artist's impression of a Sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of our Sun.ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser

Our love of black holes continues to grow as our knowledge of these celestial bodies expands. The latest news is the discovery of a rare “middleweight”...

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Australia Post salary scandal highlights our nation's growing wage inequality

  • Written by: Carl Rhodes, Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
imageAustralia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour earned $5.6 million in 2015-16.AAP/Tracey Nearmy

How much more than an average worker should a CEO earn? Research shows Australians believe CEOs should earn eight times more. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that revelations about the salary of Australia Posts CEO Ahmed Fahour have caused a public furore this week.

Fa...

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  2. New deal on torture a step in the right direction for Australia's human rights law
  3. Abbott hasn't convinced own electors on Senate curb
  4. South Australia's gambling tax highlights the regulatory mess of online betting
  5. Flattering emails will get you everywhere, except when they're from junk journals
  6. Shared ownership can help make housing affordable for people with disability
  7. Friday essay: Putin, memory wars and the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution
  8. Drugs don't cure everything – doctors can be helped to prescribe other options
  9. Delving through settlers' diaries can reveal Australia's colonial-era climate
  10. How to find success as a woman in science
  11. Vital Signs: the case of the missing investment
  12. Back to school – understanding challenges faced by Indigenous children
  13. FactCheck: are bulk-billing rates falling, or at record levels?
  14. Grattan on Friday: Liberals get high on bubbles and billionaires
  15. Watch the bright star Regulus hide behind the Full Moon
  16. Full responses from Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten
  17. Fifty Shades Darker: an abusive fairy tale that robs women of sexual freedom
  18. Australia's innovation report card shows the nation can do better, and hints at how
  19. Stop focusing on 'the problem' in Indigenous education, and start looking at learning opportunities
  20. God bless the footy: dissent and distractions
  21. Omnibus welfare bill shows the always-tricky politics of budget savings
  22. Unusual conditions: delusional infestation with insects or spiders
  23. Bernardi split is symptomatic of a fractured political system, here and abroad
  24. The Rise of Islamo-Christian Civilization
  25. Australian government challenged to advocate for its citizen on death row in Thailand
  26. From banned to international glory, women's football has sown a rich field for the future
  27. Droughts and flooding rains already more likely as climate change plays havoc with Pacific weather
  28. A wolf in dogs' clothing? Why dingoes may not be Australian wildlife's saviours
  29. Kurt Gödel: from loopholes and dictators to the incompleteness theorems
  30. How to get quality teachers in disadvantaged schools – and keep them there
  31. What's behind the rise in shareholder class actions
  32. Female genital mutilation is hurting Australian girls and we must work together to stamp it out
  33. Twitter tries to tackle abuse as research shows that most of us can be trolls online
  34. Turnbull's rant about Shorten a treat for the troops but will it play with the public?
  35. Indonesia should support interfaith community programs to help Myanmar end ethnic violence
  36. The tragic story of Soviet genetics shows the folly of political meddling in science
  37. We've all heard about postnatal depression, but what about antenatal depression?
  38. Humans are driving a new burst of evolution including possibly our own
  39. Prize fight over live-streamed sport will go on long after the final bell sounds
  40. Trump triggers overdue policy debate
  41. Playing is not coaching: why so many sporting greats struggle as coaches
  42. Inspiring to speak out - two physicists who changed the world
  43. Rose Skinner: the firebrand Perth dealer neglected by a new art history
  44. Politics podcast: Cory Bernardi on why he spurned the Liberals
  45. Bernardi should have resigned his Senate seat: here's why
  46. Middle Eastern migrants aren't 'piling on to the dole queue'
  47. We need to be clear-headed when offering land for Singapore to train its soldiers
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