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Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal

  • Written by: Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow, Bond University
imageEven cheap dinners were found to influence prescribing habits.from www.shutterstock.com.au

An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that company’s products. The damming findings demonstrate the value of new transparency laws in the US, and...

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How CSIRO is turbocharging the world's largest radio telescopes

  • Written by: Douglas Bock, Acting Director, Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO
imageThe 500-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world.NAOC

The world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, FAST (the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope), is rapidly taking shape in China.

At 500 metres in diameter, it would only just fit under the arch of the Sydney Harbour...

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ReachTEL polls have large swings to Labor in NSW marginals

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, PhD Student, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

ReachTEL has taken six marginal seat polls for the NSW Teachers Federation. All polls were conducted on the 20 June, the day after Labor’s campaign launch, with samples of 600-650 per electorate. Labor is winning all six seats polled with 53-55% Two Party Preferred (2PP); all seats are currently held by the Coalition. This picture showing...

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Election explainer: why can't Australians vote online?

  • Written by: Vanessa Teague, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

In 2015, more than 280,000 votes were received in the New South Wales election from a personal computer or mobile phone. This was the largest-ever binding election to use online voting.

But federally, the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters has ruled out allowing Australians to cast their vote online, arguing it risks...

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  1. Can cycling help with grief and depression?
  2. Is Medicare under threat? Making sense of the privatisation debate
  3. The sound of silence: why has the environment vanished from election politics?
  4. Timeline: Australia's climate policy
  5. Views from abroad: how is the world seeing Australia's election?
  6. What's the key to home ownership for Gen Y?
  7. How the major parties' policies compare on business and finance regulation
  8. Here's looking at Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with monkeys
  9. One in five early childhood educators plan to leave the profession
  10. Referendum Day in the Dis-United Kingdom
  11. No massacres and an accelerating decline in overall gun deaths: the impact of Australia’s major 1996 gun law reforms
  12. Labor moves its scare campaign onto vaccination register
  13. Barnaby Joyce might seek another portfolio
  14. Managing same-sex marriage plebiscite would be a challenge for Turnbull within his own ranks
  15. The need for speed: there's still time to fix Australia's NBN
  16. Explainer: what is ‘value capture’ and what does it mean for cities?
  17. How is the UK's Brexit referendum different from Australian referendums?
  18. Why the Prime Minister's Literary Awards need an urgent overhaul
  19. The fossil-fuelled political economy of Australian elections
  20. Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship
  21. Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others
  22. Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems
  23. Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading
  24. Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?
  25. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  26. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  27. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  28. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  29. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  30. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  31. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  32. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  33. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  34. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  35. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  36. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  37. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  38. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  39. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  40. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  41. How should reading be taught in schools?
  42. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  43. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  44. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  45. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  46. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  47. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  48. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  49. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  50. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer

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