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Five ways to boost Australian writers’ earnings

  • Written by: Rebecca Giblin, ARC Future Fellow; Associate Professor, Monash University
Five ways to boost Australian writers’ earningsBy changing our approach to author rights, we can help writers earn more.shutterstock

Who makes the money in publishing? Nobody. This often repeated dark joke highlights a serious issue. The most recent figures show that Australian authors earn just $12,900 a year from writing work (the median, at $2,800, was even worse). Indeed, authors can gross...

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Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse

  • Written by: Heather Douglas, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuseTechnologies such as social media, SMS and tracking apps can be used by abusers to control and harass their partners. Shutterstock

Migrant women with temporary visa status are particularly vulnerable when it comes to domestic and family violence. That vulnerability is intensified when you add technology to the mix.

Technology-facilitated abuse has...

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The presence of people is slowing shark recovery on the Great Barrier Reef

  • Written by: Justin Rizzari, Lecturer in Fisheries Science, Deakin University
The presence of people is slowing shark recovery on the Great Barrier ReefBlacktip reef sharks are one of the most common species on the Great Barrier Reef.Simon Gingins, Author provided

Much of the Great Barrier Reef is legally protected in an effort to conserve and rebuild the fragile marine environment. Marine reserves are considered the gold standard for conservation, and often shape our perception of what an...

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Australia's spike in summer drownings: what the media misses

  • Written by: Medhavi Gupta, PhD Candidate, George Institute for Global Health
Australia's spike in summer drownings: what the media missesMedia reports tend to focus on people who drown at the beach. But almost as many people drown in rivers and lakes. Where are the safety messages for them?from www.shutterstock.com

You’d be hard pressed to have missed the news that there’s been a big spike in the number of drowning deaths this summer – up about 50% since last year....

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  1. Vital Signs. Yet another year of steady rates. What's the point of the RBA inflation target?
  2. What Labor has to fear is the Big Scare
  3. Why Australians are falling in love with American football, and what it means for local leagues
  4. can you spare a few minutes for The Conversation?
  5. Digitally tracking student behaviour in the classroom encourages compliance, not learning
  6. How we traced the underwater volcanic ancestry of Lord Howe Island
  7. Australia is counting on cooking the books to meet its climate targets
  8. How Australia's political ageism may be robbing us of our best leaders
  9. will I go blind if I shut my eyes and face the Sun?
  10. it's time to step up, free press needs allies
  11. Hakeem Al-Araibi's case is a test of world soccer's human rights credentials. Here's why
  12. Aboriginal voices are missing from the Murray-Darling Basin crisis
  13. History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren't
  14. Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  15. a partial defence of the hipster
  16. What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes
  17. Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans
  18. Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school
  19. Why slow TV deserves our (divided) attention
  20. A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitions
  21. Coalition gains in first Newspoll of 2019, but big swings to Labor in Victorian seats; NSW is tied
  22. Agriculture Department refuses release of live sheep video as FOI shows heat stress suffering
  23. what is an Interpol red notice and how does it work?
  24. how to make our homes comfortable without cranking up the aircon
  25. Not another online petition! But here's why you should think before deleting it
  26. Sperm donation is testing what it means to be a legal parent, all the way to the High Court
  27. Here's what happens to our plastic recycling when it goes offshore
  28. how conservation law is failing the black-throated finch
  29. How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination
  30. how groups and individuals spread racist hate online
  31. Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon
  32. what causes bloating and gassiness?
  33. Why Trump's wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy
  34. Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer's heatwave in NZ
  35. The off-topic Conversation #174
  36. how did spoken language start?
  37. No surplus, no share market growth, no lift in wage growth. Economic survey points to bleaker times post-election
  38. Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will
  39. Flying taxis within five years? Not likely
  40. Australian school stories on screen
  41. Back at school? Here's how to keep kids free of head lice
  42. To predict droughts, don't look at the skies. Look in the soil... from space
  43. Morrison commits to 1.25 million new jobs over five years
  44. View from The Hill: Independent push against Frydenberg
  45. Too big to fail. The risks to Australian taxpayers from New Zealand banks
  46. The 'sharing economy' simply dresses up our consumerist tendencies in a more palatable ideology
  47. is it safe to run while pregnant?
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