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Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband

  • Written by Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Director - Melbourne Networked Society Institute, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Co-Founder/Academic Director - Melbourne Accelerator Program, University of Melbourne
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Internet and broadband connectivity are the foundation of the networked economy. But to ensure the benefits of the networked economy are evenly distributed, the Australian government needs to ensure access to the internet to encourage and support innovation.

A recent report from SGS Economics and Planning highlights a widening gap between the...

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Laughs, cries and deception: birds' emotional lives are just as complicated as ours

  • Written by Gisela Kaplan, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of New England
imageSulphur-crested cockatoos form long-term pair bonds, perhaps explaining their emotional intelligence. Ian Sanderson/Flickr, CC BY-NC

July on the Northern Tableland, near Armidale in New South Wales, is usually the beginning of the breeding season and field observations start early.

I sat and watched in freezing temperatures. The sun was just rising...

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It will take years to know whether New South Wales' shark nets are working

  • Written by James Smith, Research Fellow in Fisheries, UNSW Australia

Shark nets are being trialled at five locations in northern New South Wales in response to a recent spate of shark attacks in this area.

The goal of these nets is to reduce the number of encounters of sharks with humans. The nets may do this by catching large sharks, and possibly by changing the way sharks visit these beaches.

There has been some do...

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Twitter influences investor behaviour whether companies intend it to or not: new research

  • Written by Maria Prokofieva, Senior lecturer in Accounting and Finance, Victoria University
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Companies that tweet corporate news and financial results can significantly affect stock prices even if the company’s tweets contain no new information beyond what is already posted through the stock exchange platform, my research shows.

I studied 3,516 corporate announcements published by Australian listed companies throughout 2008-2013 at...

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  1. Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity
  2. We don't need greater access to Nembutal to achieve good end-of-life care
  3. Australia’s human rights debate has always been political
  4. PISA results don’t look good, but before we panic let’s look at what we can learn from the latest test
  5. Five ways to spend with more social purpose this Christmas
  6. Hanson thinks Culleton has swollen head
  7. Wings of desire, demise and adaptation: birds in Australian art
  8. First the word, then the deed: how an 'ethnocracy' like Australia works
  9. Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs
  10. What’s next for Italy?
  11. Does medical research funding need a paradigm shift?
  12. When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements
  13. Drugs for delirium don't work, and may in fact harm
  14. Why OPEC's squeeze on oil prices is getting weaker all the time
  15. Great Barrier Reef needs far more help than Australia claims in its latest report to UNESCO
  16. Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill
  17. 'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like
  18. The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians
  19. Listen up: running sounds contain clues for injury prevention
  20. Australia's political elites are fiddling while Rome burns
  21. Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
  22. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 4
  23. The 'no' vote in Italy's referendum triggers economic and political uncertainty
  24. Tipping the scales on Christmas Island: wasps and bugs use other species, so why can’t we?
  25. Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
  26. Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'
  27. Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
  28. Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army
  29. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  30. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
  31. Goodbye, Dolly, the magazine that helped so many young women grow up
  32. Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
  33. Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here's how we find out
  34. Health Check: do home remedies for common warts really work?
  35. Why don't more people volunteer? Misconceptions don't help
  36. Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
  37. Neighbours' fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts
  38. From 'fascists' to 'feminazis': how both sides of politics are biased in their political thinking
  39. The worst year for mosquitoes ever? Here's how we find out
  40. Can we blame climate change for thunderstorm asthma?
  41. The Business Council of Australia and its new head need a reality check
  42. Imitation game: how copies can solve our cultural heritage crises
  43. What can Australia learn from Germany's remarkable energy transition?
  44. Nitrogen pollution: the forgotten element of climate change
  45. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 3
  46. The underbelly of sport: Dirty Games
  47. Trump rewrites the diplomatic rule book
  48. Will Italy's referendum trigger the next crisis?
  49. A New Politics of Time
  50. ABCC amended local content rules will help Australian steelmakers compete against low-quality imports
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