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Why and how do we measure what consumers feel?

  • Written by: Viet Nguyen, Senior Research Fellow in Applied Macroeconomics, University of Melbourne
imageIt's important to know what consumers are thinking and feeling.Shutterstock

How we track our economy influences everything from government spending and taxes to home lending and business investment. In our series The Way We Measure, we’re taking a close look at economic indicators to better understand what’s going on.


Consumers are key...

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Understanding others' feelings: what is empathy and why do we need it?

  • Written by: Pascal Molenberghs, Senior Lecturer in Social Neuroscience, Monash University
imageMany animals might show signs of mimicry or emotional contagion to another animal in pain.Fenix_21/Flickr, CC BY-SA

This is the introductory essay in our series on understanding others’ feelings. In it we will examine empathy, including what it is, whether our doctors need more of it, and when too much may not be a good thing.


Empathy is the...

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Five political leaders to watch in 2017

  • Written by: Nick Bisley, Executive Director of La Trobe Asia and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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The world is in fluid political times, and the opportunity for emerging figures to make their mark is considerable.

Here are five political leaders from around the world who are emerging as significant talents and possible contenders for influence in 2017 and beyond.


Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen has been in the national eye for most of...

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Why do we still make girls wear skirts and dresses as school uniform?

  • Written by: Amanda Mergler, Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
imageWearing a skirt can prevent girls from participating in sports.From www.shutterstock.com

While the wearing of school uniforms has a long history across Australia, we are only just starting to talk about the expectations around what girls wear to school.

From discussion about the lack of change in girls uniforms over time, to questions about why...

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