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Uncertainty over US-China relations under President Trump may be made clearer at Davos

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageChinese President Xi Jinping.Reuters/Mariana Bazo

In a week when a Chinese slow burn over a phone call between president Donald Trump and Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen foreshadowed a difficult relationship between Washington and Beijing, China quietly let it be known President Xi Jinping will attend this year’s World Economic Forum in...

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Business Briefing: what super is doing to banking and finance

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation
imageSuperannuation's influence on the Australian financial sector mostly balances out.www.shutterstock.com

The total of superannuation assets in Australia is a staggering A$2 trillion and contributions to this are rising. But despite this significant influence, a new study shows the effects of superannuation on banking and finance mostly balance out.

A...

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Seven essential tips to breaking up with sugar

  • Written by: Alessandro R Demaio, Global Health Doctor; Co-Founded NCDFREE & festival21; Assoc. Researcher, University of Copenhagen
imageAs 2017 fast approaches, maybe it's time for a bitter breakup with some things sweet.Pixabay, CC BY-NC-ND

As we come to the end of 2016, many of us start to look back – and reflect. The year has been defining – even redefining – in many ways. Politics, technology and culture have all seen major leaps and in some cases, hurdles. In...

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  1. Interactive body map: physical inactivity and the risks to your health
  2. Exercise: motivation gets you started, but routine keeps you going
  3. What you need to know to understand risk estimates
  4. By framing secular society as a Christian creation, Hanson's revival goes beyond simple racism
  5. Guide to the classics: the Arthurian legend
  6. Why artificial intelligence has not revolutionised healthcare... yet
  7. How to reduce your kitchen's impact on global warming
  8. Ten years of backflips over emissions trading leave climate policy in the lurch
  9. As its economy changes, China is starting to export its real estate ideas too
  10. Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on working the new parliament
  11. Why give the Green Army its marching orders?
  12. Tiny desert mice could help save Australia's grasslands from invasion
  13. Australia is very average when it comes to maths and science performance – here's what needs to change
  14. Government calls for co-operation after hit with negative growth figure
  15. Why the next editor-in-chief at The Age should be a woman
  16. Why are the best shut out? The sorry saga of performing arts funding in Australia
  17. Keeping one step ahead of pollen triggers for thunderstorm asthma
  18. Where are the women scientists, tech gurus and engineers in our films?
  19. Periodontitis: why we need a vaccine for gum disease
  20. Coalition regains ground in Newspoll
  21. Hold pornography to account – not education programs – for children's harmful sexual behaviour
  22. These are the characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work
  23. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 5
  24. The off-topic Conversation #113
  25. Australia's students are failing. I blame the politicians
  26. Turnbull government rules out an emissions intensity scheme
  27. Pavlov's plants: new study shows plants can learn from experience
  28. FactCheck: Is Australia’s use of antibiotics in general practice 20% above the OECD average?
  29. Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband
  30. Laughs, cries and deception: birds' emotional lives are just as complicated as ours
  31. It will take years to know whether New South Wales' shark nets are working
  32. Twitter influences investor behaviour whether companies intend it to or not: new research
  33. Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity
  34. We don't need greater access to Nembutal to achieve good end-of-life care
  35. Australia’s human rights debate has always been political
  36. PISA results don’t look good, but before we panic let’s look at what we can learn from the latest test
  37. Five ways to spend with more social purpose this Christmas
  38. Hanson thinks Culleton has swollen head
  39. Wings of desire, demise and adaptation: birds in Australian art
  40. First the word, then the deed: how an 'ethnocracy' like Australia works
  41. Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs
  42. What’s next for Italy?
  43. Does medical research funding need a paradigm shift?
  44. When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements
  45. Drugs for delirium don't work, and may in fact harm
  46. Why OPEC's squeeze on oil prices is getting weaker all the time
  47. Great Barrier Reef needs far more help than Australia claims in its latest report to UNESCO
  48. Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill
  49. 'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like
  50. The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians

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