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Business Briefing: why the future is workless

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Melbourne Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation

When Tim Dunlop, from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne, started to research the future of work, his economist friends pointed to all the research showing there will still be jobs.

A few years later and Dunlop isn’t so sure. His book, “Why the Future is Workless”, unpicks the research into...

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How migrant workers are critical to the future of Australia's agricultural industry

  • Written by: Jock Collins, Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
imageAustralia takes in about half of all working holidaymakers who enter OECD countries.AAP/Dan Peled

More than 900,000 immigrants on permanent and temporary visas enter Australia each year. Most live and work in Australian capital cities; immigrants are more urbanised than the average Australian today.

imageNew Immigrants Improving Productivity in...

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Speaking with: Alanna Kamp about the erasure of Chinese-Australian women from our history books

  • Written by: Dallas Rogers, Lecturer in Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
imageChinese Australians have been in Australia for more than a century, but they are invisible in our records.Shutterstock/The Conversation

We tend to think of Australia as having a largely European population in the years dominated by the White Australia policy. But the truth is Chinese-Australians have been contributing to our national character...

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Peering into the future: does science require predictions?

  • Written by: Geraint Lewis, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
imageIs this science?Shutterstock.com

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”L. P. Hartley

While the past may seem like a foreign country, the future is a more mysterious land. Full of potential and promise, tragedy and heartache, people have always sought glimpses of a map of the future. Visions of Christmases-Yet-to...

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  5. Turnbull is trussed up, unable to deliver either marriage plebiscite or parliamentary outcome
  6. Labor maintains 52-48 lead in Newspoll
  7. New South Wales overturns greyhound ban: a win for the industry, but a massive loss for the dogs
  8. Buyouts mean the future of Australian video-on-demand is hard to picture
  9. Let's address the perfect storm of factors leading to obesity in disadvantaged children
  10. Hurricane Matthew is just the latest unnatural disaster to strike Haiti
  11. How we get sucked in by junk food specials in supermarkets
  12. Turnbull dodges on what happens after marriage plebiscite bill is defeated
  13. Australia's car industry ignored the elephant in the room: carbon emissions
  14. With the plebiscite set to be blocked, who will leave a legacy of marriage equality?
  15. Data surveillance is all around us, and it's going to change our behaviour
  16. Healthy guts are swarming with bugs, so what do they do?
  17. Gut feeling: how your microbiota affects your mood, sleep and stress levels
  18. Debate reveals Trump's dated, dangerous masculinity – and how he just doesn't get it
  19. Has social media really shifted the line between personal and private forever?
  20. Worried your emails might be spied on? Here's what you can do
  21. Canada lets the states lead on climate, should Australia do the same?
  22. The new UN deal on aviation emissions leaves much to be desired
  23. Turnbull's misgivings on renewables overlook economic and financial realities
  24. Joe Cinque's Consolation: violence, delusion and the question of guilt
  25. Bill Shorten steps up attack on Donald Trump
  26. Labor caucus set to kill marriage vote
  27. We need to pick up the pace on innovation, says secretary of prime minister's department
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  29. Viciousness reaches new lows in the second debate, but it is unlikely to change the race
  30. How retro storytelling can help boost imaginative capacity
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  36. Clear skies ahead: how improving the language of aviation could save lives
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  38. Post-truth politics and the US election: why the narrative trumps the facts
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  42. Younger farmers more open to sharing the family farm with outside investors
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  44. A future world full of driverless cars... seriously?!
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  46. Panel to assist in working up long-delayed changes for universities
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