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Can't resist splurging in online shopping? Here's why

  • Written by Adrian R. Camilleri, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
Can't resist splurging in online shopping? Here's whyShutterstock

The demand for online shopping has obviously increased since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place.

But less obvious are the subtle psychological drivers behind our collective online shopping splurge. In fact, online shopping can relieve stress, provide entertainment and offers the reduced “pain” of paying online.

In the...

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The problem with arts funding in Australia goes right back to its inception

  • Written by Karen Hands, Lecturer - Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast
The problem with arts funding in Australia goes right back to its inceptionThe Bell Shakespeare Company – established with support from the Trust – had to end its touring season of Hamlet early due to coronavirus. Brett Boardman

The arts and culture sector has had its share of trouncing in recent years: funding dropped 4.9% in the decade 2007-2008 to 2017-2018, promised arts policy was short-lived, or not reali...

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Coronavirus has changed our sense of place, so together we must re-imagine our cities

  • Written by Tony Matthews, Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University

Is it time to re-imagine our fundamental relationship with cities?

People bring cities to life. They interact, work, socialise and travel. Without this, cities are just collections of buildings and infrastructure.

This relationship is now on hiatus all over the world. The COVID-19 pandemic left thousands of cities empty, eerie and listless....

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JobKeeper $60 billion snafu like your house builder revising quote: Morrison

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Campaigning in Eden-Monaro with just-selected Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs, Scott Morrison on Sunday turned folksy to present the upside of the $60 billion JobKeeper forecasting snafu.

“If you’re building a house and the contractor comes to you and says it’s going to cost you $350,000 and they come back to you several months...

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  1. Beware the 'cauldron of paranoia' as China and the US slide towards a new kind of cold war
  2. Treasury revises JobKeeper's cost down by massive $60 billion, sparking calls to widen eligibility
  3. Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep up
  4. Target's decline is part of a deeper trend
  5. The WHO's coronavirus inquiry will be more diplomatic than decisive. But Australia should step up in the meantime
  6. Is it time to reopen our borders? For states still recording new cases, it's too soon
  7. How universities came to rely on international students
  8. 7 questions answered on how to socialise safely as coronavirus restrictions ease
  9. Michelle Grattan on the China-Australia trade war and state border policy
  10. New shows tell our isolation stories on screen – making the most of what's at hand
  11. What defines casual work? Federal Court ruling highlights a fundamental flaw in Australian labour law
  12. 3 experts rate Australia's emissions technology plan
  13. From spit to scrums. How can sports players minimise their coronavirus risk?
  14. Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia
  15. 'wolf warriors' ready to fight back
  16. Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes
  17. Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules
  18. Rich and poor don't recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge
  19. Australia, it's time to talk about our water emergency
  20. the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism
  21. Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs
  22. Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts
  23. Tonight we riot? What Nintendo's 'revolutionary' video game misses about worker liberation
  24. Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?
  25. Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can't just snap back to 'normal' funding arrangements
  26. NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that's a bad move
  27. Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections
  28. Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism
  29. 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy
  30. Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?
  31. The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
  32. Why it is "reasonable and necessary" for the NDIS to support people's sex lives
  33. Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on
  34. When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week
  35. Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement
  36. Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together
  37. How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
  38. After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did it
  39. Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act
  40. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  41. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
  42. 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia
  43. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
  44. The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute
  45. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory
  46. Denied intimacy in 'iso', Aussies go online for adult content – so what's hot in each major city?
  47. why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
  48. A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic
  49. The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
  50. how to count like a bee
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