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One year on, we should remember David Bowie as both genius and flawed human

  • Written by: Catherine Strong, Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
imageA Bowie mural in Brixton, London.Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

It’s a year today since David Bowie died. His death-day (January 10) and his birthday (he would have been 70 on January 8) are being marked by both small-scale local tributes in tiny venues and high-profile concerts in cities such as London, New York and Los Angeles.

Sydney, where Bowie...

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Why Centrelink should adopt a light touch when data matching

  • Written by: Helen Hodgson, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has launched an investigation into Centrelink’s automated debt-recovery system. The issue had been referred after numerous complaints that the system, which matches income data reported to Centrelink with that held by the Australian Tax Office, was issuing incorrect debt notices to welfare recipients.

The tax and...

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Wheat, sheep or Elvis Presley? Rural Australia has had to change its tune

  • Written by: John Connell, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney

Rural and regional Australia have had a hard time of late. The economies of Sydney and Melbourne are growing, but much of the rest of their states are not. The population of regional areas is stagnating and agriculture is struggling.

Perhaps worst of all there is a feeling that no-one in Canberra or in the booming coastal periphery cares about...

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Can Facebook help you make your home more sustainable?

  • Written by: Tim Forcey, Energy Advisor, Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne
imageSocial media might help you navigate the confusing world of sustainability.ra2studio/shutterstock.com

Facebook has always been controversial, with many users worrying about how the information they post might be used. Lately, the social media behemoth has also been criticised for facilitating the spread of fake news.

But over the past 18 months I...

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  2. Sussan Ley and the Gold Coast apartment: murky rules mean age of entitlement isn't over for MPs
  3. Health check: is it safe to microwave your food?
  4. The off-topic Conversation #115
  5. Why and how do we measure what consumers feel?
  6. Understanding others' feelings: what is empathy and why do we need it?
  7. Five political leaders to watch in 2017
  8. Why do we still make girls wear skirts and dresses as school uniform?
  9. Lion is a well-made melodrama with a rather disturbing message
  10. Make a fresh start with your fridge in 2017: apps to reduce food waste and save money
  11. Food for thought: the rise of Australia's mighty Brahman
  12. Australia’s climate in 2016 – a year of two halves as El Niño unwound
  13. Explainer: we can learn a lot from the changing night sky
  14. Birdbath, food or water? How to attract your favourite birds to your garden
  15. In a world awash with data, is the census still relevant?
  16. The lure of cycling: tips from a middle-aged man in Lycra
  17. The archaeology of polite society
  18. Who will be the winner in the next computing revolution?
  19. Housing the dead: what happens when a city runs out of space?
  20. Two cheers for Barack Obama
  21. The world is getting fatter with technology as part of the problem and not the cure
  22. Enough's enough: buying more stuff isn't always the answer to happiness
  23. Kitchen ink: foodies, chefs and tattoos
  24. Prepare for a healthy holiday with this A-to-E guide
  25. How to quickly spot dodgy science
  26. How and why we are moving beyond GDP as a measure of human progress
  27. Why bad housing design pumps up power prices for everyone
  28. Ten reasons some of us should cut back on alcohol
  29. Cinema opens a dialogue about coming to terms with Balkans' past
  30. Why don't people get it? Seven ways that communicating risk can fail
  31. Explainer: why markets care what businesses are buying
  32. Reinventing heritage buildings isn't new at all – the ancients did it too
  33. Would Marilyn Monroe's career (and life) have been different if she had acted on stage?
  34. Australian climate politics in 2017: a guide for the perplexed
  35. Health Check: does my brain really freeze when I eat ice cream?
  36. Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2017
  37. Things you were taught at school that are wrong
  38. Cabinet papers 1992-93: the rise and fall of enterprise bargaining agreements
  39. Cabinet papers 1992-93: Keating government fights for Indigenous rights on multiple fronts
  40. Cabinet papers 1992-93: the balance of head and heart
  41. Cabinet papers 1992-93: Australia reluctant while world moves towards first climate treaty
  42. The 1992-93 cabinet papers reveal the chaos behind the government's economic statement
  43. Cabinet papers 1992-93: Australia moves to make Her Majesty obsolete
  44. How changes noted in the 1992-93 cabinet papers affect our super today
  45. Telling the tale of 2016: On choosing how to remember the year
  46. Philanthropy's tech billionaire reboot could be good for policymaking
  47. Go native: why we need 'wildlife allotments' to bring species back to the ‘burbs
  48. Wait a moment: 2016 goes a little longer thanks to a leap second
  49. A behaviourist's guide to New Year's resolutions
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