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Gender neutral policies are a myth: why we need a women's budget

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Most government policies these days look gender neutral. But in substance, government policy often has a different impact on women and men, in distributing benefits and burdens of taxes and spending. How can we ensure that taxing and spending supports women’s equality?

The federal budget, expected in early May, is where the rubber hits the...

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Transport outlook: larger companies will survive global economic downturn and slowdown in mining

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

It’s reporting season, and over the past few weeks some of Australia’s biggest companies have been releasing information on how they’re travelling. These reports reflect key themes of how things are going in key sectors of the economy. Over the coming days we’re going to report on the results a handful of major companies in...

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From backflips to power potato peeling: why videos go viral

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageAll eyes on us: finding the compulsively shareable. Satish Krishnamurthy

It’s the Holy Grail for marketers: understanding what makes a video ad go viral. A lot of the research in this area has looked at what makes people share, since it’s assumed something goes viral because it’s sharable. But exactly what motivates a person to...

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What makes us conscious?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageConsciousness might emerge from a particular kind of information processing.Shutterstock

Do you think that the machine you are reading this story on, right now, has a feeling of “what it is like” to be in its state?

What about a pet dog? Does it have a sense of what it’s like to be in its state? It may pine for attention, and...

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  2. Antibiotics for colds, x-rays for bronchitis, internal exams with pap tests – the latest list of tests to question
  3. Droughts and flooding rains: it takes three oceans to explain Australia's wild 21st-century weather
  4. Rise and fall: social collapse linked to sea level in the Pacific
  5. Hot cities: the ‘smart’ response to urban heat threats
  6. Explainer: how is literacy taught in schools?
  7. Morrison talks down personal income tax cuts
  8. Love, Serendipity and Algorithms
  9. Labor and Greens would try to frustrate double-dissolution planning
  10. WA Labor avoids own goal, but what damage has Smith's tilt at the leadership done?
  11. Explainer: what is Dravet syndrome and how can it be managed?
  12. Shane Warne Foundation not alone in charity spending ambiguity
  13. Gun control in America by the right (and wrong) numbers
  14. The off-topic Conversation #84
  15. Full response from the International Transport Workers' Federation and Maritime Union of Australia
  16. Bill threatens to remove last safety net for refugees fleeing death, torture and persecution
  17. The problems with Australia's hospitals – and how they can be fixed
  18. Infographic: a snapshot of hospitals in Australia
  19. From triage to discharge: a user's guide to navigating hospitals
  20. Insurance outlook: in an era of increasing competition technology will make the difference
  21. EcoCheck: Australia's Southwest jarrah forests have lost their iconic giants
  22. Orang-utans play video games too, and it can enrich their lives in the zoo
  23. Memo to our latest cities minister: here's what needs to be done
  24. Here’s looking at: ‘Whistler’s Mother’
  25. Full response from a spokesman for Michaelia Cash and a spokeswoman for Penny Wong
  26. FactCheck Q A: can foreign seafarers be paid $2 an hour to work in Australian waters, under laws passed by Labor?
  27. Health Check: three reasons why sleep is important for your health
  28. Uberbanking, with limits
  29. Not so grassroots: how the snowflake model is transforming political campaigns
  30. Explainer: Screenrights and the thorny question of writers' royalties
  31. Expert panel: the state of the National Broadband Network
  32. Coalition gains in Ipsos despite Turnbull's ratings slump
  33. Banking outlook: threats from technology, burst of housing bubble, end of mining boom
  34. What might a 'Brexit' mean for the Anglosphere – and Australia?
  35. Tipping point: how we predict when Antarctica's melting ice sheets will flood the seas
  36. Pi and its part of the most beautiful formula in mathematics
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  38. True crime interrogates toxic masculinity, at last
  39. Australian teachers get fewer training days than in other countries and turn to online courses for support
  40. Keeping Christopher Contented
  41. Coalition holds solid lead in Ipsos-Fairfax poll but Turnbull slips
  42. Taking her medicine: Maria Sharapova grand slammed
  43. Brian Greene yes but string theory no
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  45. How can we understand the origins of Islamic State?
  46. CommInsure – You pays your money and you takes your chance
  47. Utzon Lecture: Re-imagining the Harbour City
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Car Import Timeline: What Usually Happens at Each Stage

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Portable Toilet Hygiene Standards Explained: Clean vs Sanitised vs Disinfected

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Options Available When a Company Faces Financial Distress

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