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ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks

  • Written by: Pat McConnell, Honorary Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University

In a pre-Christmas interview, Greg Medcraft, Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), looked forward to 2017 and talked tough:

What we want for people to appreciate is that there is nowhere to hide (when it comes to corporate crime).

With new(ish) money from the government, ASIC plans to hire loads of new people and...

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How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms

  • Written by: Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT Senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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When Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, arguably the “father of gymnastics” and the inventor of the horizontal and parallel bars, opened his first gym (or Turnplatz) in 1811, he decided to locate it outdoors in Berlin.

At the time – and for thousands of years beforehand – physical exercise was primarily an open-air activity. Only in...

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Health Check: is snoring anything to worry about?

  • Written by: Jason Amatoury, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical Engineer, Upper Airway Physiologist, Neuroscience Research Australia
imageSnoring occurs due to vibration of the soft tissues of your upper airway. timothykrause/flickr , CC BY-SA

There’s nothing quite like the sound of snoring as the ultimate sleep interrupter.

But snoring can be more than just a frustration to those in your vicinity. Sometimes snoring is linked to more serious health problems, such as obstructive...

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The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway

  • Written by: Douglas Bock, Director of Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO
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You know how long it takes to pack the car to go on holidays. But there’s a moment when you’re all in, everyone has their seatbelt on, you pull out of the drive and you’re off.

Our ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) telescope has just pulled out of the drive, so to speak, at its base in Western Australia at the...

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  1. Heed Hawke's call – Australian federalism is an idea whose time has ended
  2. The mosquito-borne Zika virus can also be transmitted by sexual activity
  3. What's the point of sex? It's communication at a biological level
  4. Game, set and match-fix: what more can be done to stop corruption in tennis?
  5. What can the medieval King Roger teach us about tolerance?
  6. Thinking about a sustainable retrofit? Here are three things to consider
  7. Australia must make the environment integral to economic decision-making
  8. Why did US President Obama seek to punish female Russian hacker Alisa Shevchenko?
  9. WA ReachTEL: 52-48 to Labor, but One Nation at 10.8%
  10. Ley goes, and Turnbull's reforms pave way for fewer expenses scandals
  11. Centrelink data-matching problems show the need for a government blockchain
  12. Should over 50’s avoid that afternoon coffee? Maybe.
  13. Trump, Putin and the new international order
  14. Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
  15. 9 ways 'won’t-power' is better than 'willpower' for resisting temptation and helping you eat better
  16. What is heart failure? It's not as common a cause of death as reports would have us believe
  17. How the insights of the Large Hadron Collider are being made open to everyone
  18. Is FIFA expanding the football World Cup for the good of the game?
  19. Are our busy doctors and nurses losing empathy for patients?
  20. For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there’s no such thing as bad publicity
  21. Myuran Sukumaran's voice in his first exhibition is raw, premature and unsettling
  22. Hot dogs and cool cats: keeping pets cool without blowing your energy bill
  23. We need to find new ways to measure the Australian labour force
  24. Five things to consider when designing a policy to measure research impact
  25. How to manage Russia becomes one of the most pressing questions in US, and world, affairs
  26. Shorter or longer tennis matches: what's the right balance?
  27. Putin, the political technologist
  28. Explainer: why has Rod Culleton been disqualified from the Senate?
  29. Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
  30. 'I'm not a mind reader': understanding your partner's thoughts can be both good and bad
  31. Expenses reform is easy and essential – the only thing lacking is politicians' resolve to do it
  32. Beyond La La Land: the top ten toe-tapping film musicals
  33. Life in a post-flying Australia, and why it might actually be ok
  34. There is no silver bullet to stop fraudsters
  35. Trump and Showering Golden
  36. Note to Centrelink: Australian workers' lives have changed
  37. Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts
  38. Bright Lights – a TV farewell to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
  39. School dress 'debate' is a nonsense: just have a range of options, and let students choose
  40. Children learn empathy growing up, but can we train adults to have more of it?
  41. James Hird's suspected drug overdose: invasive reporting breaches a right to privacy
  42. Can poetry stop a highway? Wielding words in the battle over Roe 8
  43. Old floods show Brisbane's next big wet might be closer than we think
  44. Why are most people right handed? The answer may be in the mouths of our ancestors
  45. Book Review: Trillion Dollar Baby
  46. How virtual reality technology is changing the way students learn
  47. 10 years on, the iPhone has revolutionised life and freed us from multiple tyrannies
  48. Are the ingredients in Peppa Pig sunscreen safe?
  49. Stamping out political rorts requires a cultural change, not more bodies to police it
  50. What's behind Timor-Leste terminating its maritime treaty with Australia

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