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Patchy laws leave corporate whistleblowers vulnerable

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

In the current controversies over corporate culture, corruption and whether Australia needs a royal commission into banking, there is a huge common thread: the gap in laws that protect whistleblowers in Australia’s private and not-for-profit sectors.

A major reason why our legislators are having trouble moving on this issue is not, or not...

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Beyoncé's Lemonade: tell all or fizzy, soap-operatic art object?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageA still from Lemonade: a new way of experiencing music.Lemonade/Tidal

It’s no accident that so much energy has been poured into analysing Beyoncé’s latest offering, Lemonade. It was designed for this very purpose.

Sure, it’s a video and an album and catnip for fans, but it’s also equal parts present and puzzle for...

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Big ticket infrastructure projects may woo voters, but it's value-for-money that matters

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageValue-for-money is a concept that surprisingly isn't at the forefront of infrastructure planning.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

It is hotly tipped the federal government will announce new funding for infrastructure projects in next week’s Federal Budget, while in Victoria, the Daniel Andrews-led Labor government has promised major...

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  1. If not Manus, then what? Possible alternatives for asylum seekers and refugees in PNG
  2. Australia's gun numbers climb: men who own several buy more than ever before
  3. State by state, it's still Malcolm Turnbull's election to lose
  4. Budget explainer: does Australia really have an infrastructure deficit?
  5. Services, infrastructure winners in big-spending Victorian budget
  6. Disease evolution: the origins of anorexia and how it's shaped by culture and time
  7. Forgetting Martin Bryant: what to remember when we talk about Port Arthur
  8. A shake-up in Australia's busy TV industry as Quickflix calls in the administrators
  9. Federal election 2016: higher education policies to watch out for
  10. Federal election 2016: what's on the table for schools?
  11. Apple's slowdown highlights how growth-obsessed investors distort our view of value
  12. Shades of Abbott as Turnbull government attacks on climate, digs in on asylum seekers
  13. Politics podcast: Robert Simms on the evolution of the Greens
  14. Is the end near for the chiropractic profession as we know it?
  15. Trump, Clinton crush opponents in northeast
  16. Supplements including fish oil and vitamin D can boost effects of antidepressant medications
  17. Labor's climate policy: back in the game but missing detail
  18. The arguments that carried Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms
  19. Whose line is it anyway? The murderer, his mother, and the ghost writers
  20. How Australia produces $30 billion worth of 'grey literature' that we can't read
  21. Weekly Dose: mefloquine, an antimalarial drug made to win wars
  22. The way Australia taxes housing is manifestly unfair
  23. Where is the balance and credibility in our federal government's arts policy?
  24. Will Habitat III defend the human right to the city?
  25. Partnering with scientists boosts school students' and teachers' confidence in science
  26. PNG court decision forces Australia to act on Manus Island detainees
  27. Hidden housemates: the termites that eat our homes
  28. How the influence of trade unions on the Labor Party is overestimated
  29. Why wooing women is the way forward for trade unions
  30. Australia's gun laws save lives – but are we now going backwards?
  31. A cheat sheet for reading the federal budget
  32. The 'citizen budgets' of Africa make governments more transparent
  33. Great Barrier Reef bleaching stats are bad enough without media misreporting
  34. Disease evolution: our long history of fighting viruses
  35. From trauma to tourism and back again: Port Arthur's history of 'dark tourism'
  36. Up close and personal: virtual reality can be an instrument for social change
  37. Youth unemployment: local communities essential for helping young people find work
  38. Autism diagnostic standards fall short of the mark
  39. Labor unveils phased emissions trading scheme
  40. Death in offshore detention: predictable and preventable
  41. PNG asylum seeker judgment doesn't bind Australia: Dutton
  42. Unexplained lower back pain? It could be ankylosing spondylitis
  43. Submarines decision ultimately shows the merits of partisan debate on defence
  44. Explainer: the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia – Kriol
  45. How to make sure Australia's submarines pay for themselves
  46. French firm DCNS wins $50 billion submarine contract
  47. French company DCNS wins race to build Australia's next submarine fleet: experts respond
  48. New climate science centre doesn't make up for CSIRO cuts: experts
  49. Why the French submarine won the bid to replace the Collins-class
  50. Shorten can wedge Turnbull on climate

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The strategic rise of Bali as Australia’s next essential healthcare support hub

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Cost Savings and Benefits of Using Used Pallets in Logistics

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How Fulfilment Services in Australia Help Businesses Scale Efficiently

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Executive Recruitment Solutions That Help Organisations Secure Exceptional Leaders

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