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Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study

  • Written by Paul Harrison, Senior lecturer, Deakin Business School; Director, Centre for Organisational Health and Consumer Wellbeing, Deakin University
image"Cooling-off" periods for purchases made in high-pressure selling situations like door-to-door sales don't help consumers, research shows. image from shutterstock.com

When customers are offered a “cooling off” period, they don’t change their minds, even when the alternative is considered subjectively better, our research finds. We...

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No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump

  • Written by Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
imageVirginia coalminers in the industry's 1970s heyday.Jack Corn/EPA/US Natl Archives & Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons

On the night Donald Trump won the US election, one of the many jubilant supporters featured in the media coverage was 67-year-old Doug Ratliff of Richlands, Virginia. An owner of struggling shopping malls in a region hit...

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Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds

  • Written by David Shearman, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide

The Senate inquiry’s report into the planned closure of coal-fired power stations will no doubt shed light on the compelling health reasons to close them.

Coal-fired stations are a health hazard to their local communities and beyond due to the pollutants they emit. The resulting illnesses are a significant cost to health budgets. Climate...

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Health Check: why men wake up with erections

  • Written by Sergio Diez Alvarez, Director Of Medicine, The Maitland and Kurri Kurri Hospital, University of Newcastle
imageMany men are not actually aroused when they wake up erect. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The morning penile erection, or as it is medically known, “nocturnal penile tumescence”, is not only an interesting physiological phenomenon, it can also tell us a lot about a patient’s sexual function.

Morning penile erections affect all males,...

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  1. Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
  2. Comments on mobile
  3. A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
  4. Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate
  5. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  6. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  7. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
  8. Why music is not lost
  9. The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study
  10. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  11. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  12. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
  13. Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want
  14. A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
  15. New model for school funding that won't break the budget
  16. Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal
  17. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
  18. I used to be 'neoliberal', but I'm 'hard left' now
  19. Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
  20. Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway
  21. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  22. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  23. Why we require real names
  24. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
  25. Research Check: can eating aged cheese help you age well?
  26. We could've seen thunderstorm asthma coming and there are ways to prepare
  27. Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
  28. A new phonics test is pointless – we shouldn't waste precious money buying it from England
  29. Reinventing density: bridging the live-work divide
  30. Please, Donald Trump, don't send climate science back to the pre-satellite era
  31. Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history this weekend?
  32. Workers fight back with deviant behaviour in a precarious workplace: study
  33. Zika 'health emergency' status removed but it's sad news for reproductive health
  34. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on One Nation's troubles
  35. The rise and rise of the omniscient ‘I’
  36. Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence
  37. Changes to contract laws could give small farming businesses more control of data and innovation
  38. Reinventing density: bending the rules can help stop urban sprawl
  39. Friday essay: the loss of music
  40. Vital Signs: construction slump points to cooling economy
  41. Can the way we move after injury lead to chronic pain?
  42. 2050 climate targets: nations are playing the long game in fighting global warming
  43. Pink balls in day-night cricket could challenge players at sunset
  44. Grattan on Friday: The government is compromising Malcolm Turnbull's commitment to inclusion
  45. Politics podcast: Jenny Macklin on Labor's approach to welfare
  46. The limits of Silicon Valley: how Indonesia’s GoJek is beating Uber
  47. Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry
  48. Why the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report is still largely a story of failure
  49. Explainer: what is exposure therapy and how can it treat social anxiety?
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