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Life in a post-flying Australia, and why it might actually be ok

  • Written by: Martin Young, Associate Professor, School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University
imageCancelled flights might be your worst nightmare, but imagine a world with no flights. Flight image from www.shutterstock.com

In Australia, the amount of aviation fuel consumed per head of population has more than doubled since the 1980s. We now use, on average, 2.2 barrels (or 347 litres) of jet fuel per person per year.

This historically...

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There is no silver bullet to stop fraudsters

  • Written by: Jennifer Wilson, Combined PhD / Master of Organisational Psychology candidate, Macquarie University
imageWhat does a fraudster look like?Shutterstock

A common stereotype of fraudsters is that they are psychopaths. That fraudsters are considered manipulative, callous and remorseless is understandable, considering the consequences of fraud.

But these traits are not necessarily typical. Different people commit different types of fraud in different...

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Trump and Showering Golden

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

November, 2016. I took two weeks of annual leave to go to the U.S. and see in a female president. Like so many “sure things”, alas, it wasn’t to be.

The morning after, I went into a cafe to order a banana smoothie. On being informed that they’d sadly smoothie-ed their last banana, I started to cry. “We can get you...

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Note to Centrelink: Australian workers' lives have changed

  • Written by: Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
imageGovernment ministers have defended Centrelink's debt recovery processes as 'working' following an ongoing controversy.AAP/Julian Smith

Centrelink’s new automated data-matching system is a source of ongoing controversy. It has resulted in a significant increase in the number of current and former welfare recipients assessed as having been...

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  11. 10 years on, the iPhone has revolutionised life and freed us from multiple tyrannies
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  15. A 'tougher' citizenship test should not be used to further divide and exclude
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