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Don't have time to exercise? Here's a regime everyone can squeeze in

  • Written by: Emmanuel Stamatakis, Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
Don't have time to exercise? Here's a regime everyone can squeeze inFor those of us who are time poor, high intensity exercise can be incorporated into our daily routines.Shutterstock

Have you recently carried heavy shopping bags up a few flights of stairs? Or run the last 100 metres to the station to catch your train? If you have, you may have unknowingly been doing a style of exercise called high-intensity...

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What are we teaching in business schools? The royal commission's challenge to amoral theory

  • Written by: Walter Jarvis, Director, UTS Master of Management; Lecturer in Managing, Leading & Stewardship, University of Technology Sydney

The banking royal commission has seen spectacular resignations, calls for changes in the law, and calls for cultural change within banks.

But what about changes in education, which is where much of what’s wrong begins?

Business schools teach the people who will one day be the managers and leaders who run banks and other financial institutions.

T...

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Australian governments should follow the ACT's lead in building communities, not prisons

  • Written by: Lorana Bartels, Professor, School of Law and Justice, University of Canberra

Justice reinvestment seeks to reduce the number of people in prison by investing money that would have been spent on prisons in early intervention, prevention and diversion. It involves working with communities to design local solutions to address the drivers of crime and imprisonment.

In 2013, a Senate committee recommended that the Commonwealth...

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Honest brokers. Why mortgage broker commissions aren't the problem

  • Written by: Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW
Honest brokers. Why mortgage broker commissions aren't the problemMost mortgage brokers provide good service.Shutterstock

The Hayne Royal Commission began and ended with strident criticism of the mortgage broking industry.

It recommended brokers be required to act in the “best interests” of intending borrowers, and that intending borrowers, rather than the successful lender, pay the broker’s fee....

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  2. As Australia's soft power in the Pacific fades, China's voice gets louder
  3. Super-recognisers accurately pick out a face in a crowd – but can this skill be taught?
  4. Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th-century entomologist and scientific adventurer
  5. this is what residents have to say about life on the urban fringe
  6. Huawei or the highway? The rising costs of New Zealand's relationship with China
  7. Why schools desperately need a royal commission into the abuse of disabled people
  8. Regional Australia is calling the shots now more than ever
  9. We don't yet fully understand what mindfulness is, but this is what it's not
  10. Heaven and Earth in Chinese Art is an exercise in spectacle
  11. are robots smarter than humans?
  12. Choosing a career? These jobs won't go out of style
  13. why the 2 million target is on scientifically shaky ground
  14. Why falling house prices do less to improve affordability than you might think
  15. Everyone can be an effective advocate for vaccination: here's how
  16. Amazon's Dash Buttons, now banned in Germany, might be pushing legal limits in Australia
  17. Why international law is failing to keep pace with technology in preventing cyber attacks
  18. Desert River Sea is a vibrant, compelling tour of the Kimberley
  19. Minister who watches the nation's credit card overlooks his own
  20. six tips to get the balance right
  21. Research shows students are as good as professors in tutorial teaching
  22. The 'recycling crisis' may be here to stay
  23. Rock art shows early contact with US whalers on Australia's remote north west coast
  24. From refugees to social media to pill testing, church signs are getting political
  25. In Kwongkan, Indian and Australian performers convey an urgent climate change message
  26. New report shines light on who commits animal cruelty and how they are punished
  27. the surprisingly swift end to evolution's big bang
  28. How domestic violence affects women's mental health
  29. What we risk as humans if we allow gene-edited babies: a philosopher's view
  30. Best Picture at the Oscars? Why it has to be The Favourite out of a weak bunch
  31. This time it's Labor and the Greens standing in the way of cheaper super
  32. How big ideas for regional Australia were given short shrift
  33. How Australia made poisoning animals normal
  34. A state actor has targeted Australian political parties – but that shouldn't surprise us
  35. How climate change can make catastrophic weather systems linger for longer
  36. 'State actor' makes cyber attack on Australian political parties
  37. will eating nuts make you gain weight?
  38. what makes a shooting star fall?
  39. Labor's lead narrows to just 51-49 in Ipsos, but is it an outlier?
  40. 'is it normal to get sore down there after sex?'
  41. It's time to change our drug dog policies to catch dealers, not low-level users at public events
  42. Sailors' journals shed new light on Bennelong, a man misunderstood by history
  43. it's time to end chemical warfare
  44. A peace agreement in Afghanistan won't last if there are no women at the table
  45. Just like HAL, your voice assistant isn't working for you even if it feels like it is
  46. how you are influenced to choose without really knowing it
  47. Labor's lead cut to 51-49% in latest Ipsos poll
  48. Putting babies under general anaesthetic won't affect their development, new research shows
  49. There's little reason for optimism about Closing the Gap, despite changes to education targets
  50. how queer texts could fight homophobia in Australian schools

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