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ACCC rejects the banks colluding to bargain on Apple Pay

  • Written by Steve Worthington, Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is planning to deny the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Westpac, National Australia Bank (NAB) and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (the banks), petition to collectively bargain with and boycott Apple on Apple Pay.

Justifying the decision, ACCC chairman Rod Sims said that the likely benefits...

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Australian schools continue to fall behind other countries in maths and science

  • Written by Sue Thomson, Director, Educational Monitoring and Research Division; Research Director, Australian Surveys Research Program, Australian Council for Educational Research
imageLittle has changed in Australian students’ achievement in maths and science since 1995. from www.shutterstock.com

Australian performances in mathematics and science have stagnated over the past 20 years, according to latest findings from the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) report released today.

TIMSS has...

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New inquiry into conduct of George Brandis

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Attorney-General George Brandis faces the second inquiry within months into his conduct, after the Senate voted 36-29 to refer the Bell Group affair to a committee.

Labor, the Greens, and six of the non-Green crossbenchers voted for the inquiry. The latter were the three Nick Xenophon Team senators, Jacqui Lambie, Derryn Hinch and One...

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Paleopups and paleopussies: is a paleodiet for your pet a step too far?

  • Written by Darren Curnoe, Chief Investigator and Co-Leader of Education and Engagement Program ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, and Director, Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, UNSW Australia
imageThe animal kingdom Plate XVIIIWikimedia Commons - Craig, Hugh, CC BY-SA

Will 2016 be the year the world finally lost interest in the paleodiet? Believe it or not, it’s already happened! ‘Peak-paleo’ passed without notice way back in January 2014.

We’re often a little behind the global trends down-under, so Australia’s...

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  1. Ipsos: are the Greens really at 16%?
  2. From the Gold Coast to Geelong: how cities are shaping visions of their futures
  3. How tribal thinking has left us in a post-truth world
  4. What the government can learn from the backpacker tax debacle
  5. A woman in charge: Susan Kiefel to become chief justice of the High Court
  6. It's not just about Melbourne: why we need a national approach to 'thunderstorm asthma'
  7. Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?
  8. Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights
  9. Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument
  10. Scorsese's Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
  11. Domestic violence also has an economic penalty – we need to tackle it
  12. How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?
  13. 'It's your fault you got cancer': the blame game that doesn't help anyone
  14. Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading
  15. Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
  16. Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General
  17. How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
  18. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  19. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  20. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
  21. Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study
  22. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
  23. Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
  24. Health Check: why men wake up with erections
  25. Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
  26. Comments on mobile
  27. A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
  28. Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate
  29. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  30. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  31. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
  32. Why music is not lost
  33. The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study
  34. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  35. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  36. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
  37. Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want
  38. A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
  39. New model for school funding that won't break the budget
  40. Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal
  41. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
  42. I used to be 'neoliberal', but I'm 'hard left' now
  43. Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
  44. Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway
  45. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  46. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  47. Why we require real names
  48. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
  49. Research Check: can eating aged cheese help you age well?
  50. We could've seen thunderstorm asthma coming and there are ways to prepare
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