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'It's your fault you got cancer': the blame game that doesn't help anyone

  • Written by Alexandra Gibson, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology, UNSW Australia
imageMany people with cancer feel ashamed and judged by others' reactions.from shutterstock.com

Culturally, we have very clear ideas about cancer: what someone with cancer looks like, how it must feel, and even what it says about those who get diagnosed.

These include various stereotypes – for example, the image of a typical breast cancer survivor...

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Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading

  • Written by Marco Navone, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Technology Sydney
imageData and algorithms are an integral part of modern trading.Shutterstock

Algorithms are taking a lot of flak from those in financial circles. They’ve been blamed for a recent flash crash in the British pound and the greatest fall in the Dow in decades. They’ve been called a cancer and linked to insider trading.

Government agencies are taki...

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Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges

  • Written by Ellie Rennie, Deputy Director, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
imageSmartphones and other devices are popular in indigenous communities throughout Australia.AAP/Dan Peled

For many people living in remote Aboriginal communities, mobile devices are the sole means of accessing the internet. However, when the use of mobile devices oversteps social and cultural lines, it can have serious consequences for individuals and...

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Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General

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

Attorney-General George Brandis has declined to say whether he told then Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson not to run a particular argument in a High Court case that saw Western Australian government legislation declared unconstitutional.

Brandis said he would not disclose legal advice. “But when there is a large matter before any court...

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  1. How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
  2. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  3. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  4. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
  5. Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study
  6. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
  7. Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
  8. Health Check: why men wake up with erections
  9. Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
  10. Comments on mobile
  11. A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
  12. Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate
  13. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  14. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  15. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
  16. Why music is not lost
  17. The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study
  18. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  19. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  20. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
  21. Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want
  22. A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
  23. New model for school funding that won't break the budget
  24. Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal
  25. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
  26. I used to be 'neoliberal', but I'm 'hard left' now
  27. Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
  28. Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway
  29. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  30. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  31. Why we require real names
  32. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
  33. Research Check: can eating aged cheese help you age well?
  34. We could've seen thunderstorm asthma coming and there are ways to prepare
  35. Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
  36. A new phonics test is pointless – we shouldn't waste precious money buying it from England
  37. Reinventing density: bridging the live-work divide
  38. Please, Donald Trump, don't send climate science back to the pre-satellite era
  39. Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history this weekend?
  40. Workers fight back with deviant behaviour in a precarious workplace: study
  41. Zika 'health emergency' status removed but it's sad news for reproductive health
  42. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on One Nation's troubles
  43. The rise and rise of the omniscient ‘I’
  44. Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence
  45. Changes to contract laws could give small farming businesses more control of data and innovation
  46. Reinventing density: bending the rules can help stop urban sprawl
  47. Friday essay: the loss of music
  48. Vital Signs: construction slump points to cooling economy
  49. Can the way we move after injury lead to chronic pain?
  50. 2050 climate targets: nations are playing the long game in fighting global warming
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