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other brands are better at matching practice with talk, but don't get the publicity

  • Written by: Jessica Vredenburg, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology
other brands are better at matching practice with talk, but don't get the publicityGillette backed up its campaign by US$3 million in charitable donations, but the brand has been criticised for appropriating the #MeToo movement. Proctor & Gamble, CC BY-ND

First it was burning running shoes, and now it’s boycotting razors. This is how some customers are responding to recent brand activism initiatives.

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Head start for home owners makes a big difference for housing stress

  • Written by: Mustapha Bangura, Part-time lecturer and PhD Candidate in Property Economics, Western Sydney University

Housing affordability changes over the years for home owners, but this has been largely ignored. The focus has mostly been on entry-level affordability for home buyers. But how does affordability change over the years after people have bought their home? Our newly published research in Australian Geographer has found owners who entered the housing...

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Damning royal commission report leaves no doubt that we all lose if the Murray-Darling Basin Plan fails

  • Written by: Jamie Pittock, Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University

In the wake of revelations of water theft, fish kills, and towns running out of water, the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin has reported that the Basin Plan must be strengthened if there is to be any hope of saving the river system, and the communities along it, from a bleak future.

Evidence uncovered by the Royal...

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Michelle Grattan on the march of the independents

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

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in Australian politics. They discuss the week in politics including; independents Zali Steggall of Warringah; Oliver Yates in Kooyong and Julia Banks in Flinders, ministers Michael Keenan and Nigel Scullion, announcement they would be resigning at the...

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  2. how to spot the work of a political spin doctor this election season
  3. how political spin doctors' tactics aim to shape the news
  4. Banks are enabling economic abuse. Here's how they could be stopping it
  5. Five ways to boost Australian writers’ earnings
  6. Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse
  7. The presence of people is slowing shark recovery on the Great Barrier Reef
  8. Australia's spike in summer drownings: what the media misses
  9. Vital Signs. Yet another year of steady rates. What's the point of the RBA inflation target?
  10. What Labor has to fear is the Big Scare
  11. Why Australians are falling in love with American football, and what it means for local leagues
  12. can you spare a few minutes for The Conversation?
  13. Digitally tracking student behaviour in the classroom encourages compliance, not learning
  14. How we traced the underwater volcanic ancestry of Lord Howe Island
  15. Australia is counting on cooking the books to meet its climate targets
  16. How Australia's political ageism may be robbing us of our best leaders
  17. will I go blind if I shut my eyes and face the Sun?
  18. it's time to step up, free press needs allies
  19. Hakeem Al-Araibi's case is a test of world soccer's human rights credentials. Here's why
  20. Aboriginal voices are missing from the Murray-Darling Basin crisis
  21. History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren't
  22. Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  23. a partial defence of the hipster
  24. What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes
  25. Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans
  26. Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school
  27. Why slow TV deserves our (divided) attention
  28. A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitions
  29. Coalition gains in first Newspoll of 2019, but big swings to Labor in Victorian seats; NSW is tied
  30. Agriculture Department refuses release of live sheep video as FOI shows heat stress suffering
  31. what is an Interpol red notice and how does it work?
  32. how to make our homes comfortable without cranking up the aircon
  33. Not another online petition! But here's why you should think before deleting it
  34. Sperm donation is testing what it means to be a legal parent, all the way to the High Court
  35. Here's what happens to our plastic recycling when it goes offshore
  36. how conservation law is failing the black-throated finch
  37. How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination
  38. how groups and individuals spread racist hate online
  39. Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon
  40. what causes bloating and gassiness?
  41. Why Trump's wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy
  42. Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer's heatwave in NZ
  43. The off-topic Conversation #174
  44. how did spoken language start?
  45. No surplus, no share market growth, no lift in wage growth. Economic survey points to bleaker times post-election
  46. Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will
  47. Flying taxis within five years? Not likely
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