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Digital platforms. Why the ACCC's proposals for Google and Facebook matter big time

  • Written by: Sacha Molitorisz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Media Transition, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Digital platforms. Why the ACCC's proposals for Google and Facebook matter big timeThe Competition and Consumer Commission is worried about the ability of the platforms we use to determine the news we read.Shutterstock

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released the preliminary report of its Digital Platforms Inquiry, and Google and Facebook won’t be happy.

Rather than adopting a gently-gently approach,...

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How physical activity in Australian schools can help prevent depression in young people

  • Written by: Alexandra Parker, Professor of Physical Activity and Mental Health, Victoria University
How physical activity in Australian schools can help prevent depression in young peopleMany young people don't recover from depression, and exercise can help prevent it from developing in the first place.www.shutterstock.com

Adolescence is a critical time for the development of mental health problems. In fact, depression is most likely to occur during adolescence and young adulthood. It’s the leading cause of disability in...

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Cities can grow without wrecking reefs and oceans. Here's how

  • Written by: Silvia Tavares, Lecturer in Urban Design, James Cook University
Cities can grow without wrecking reefs and oceans. Here's howCairns has lots of hard grey infrastructure but much less green infrastructure that would reduce the impacts of the city's growth.Karine Dupré, Author provided

What happens if the water temperature rises by a few degrees?” is the 2018 International Year of the Reef leading question. While the ocean is the focus, urbanisation is...

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Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'

  • Written by: Stephen Morey, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'An image of the landscape around Bairnsdale in the late-18th century. D. R Long (Daniel Rutter), between 1856 and 1883. State Library of Victoria

In 1846 Melbourne was gripped by a panic: a story had spread that a white woman had been shipwrecked off the coast of Gippsland and was living with Aboriginal people. “Expeditions” were sent...

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  1. As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution
  2. Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space
  3. did more people buy their seventh home than bought their first home last year?
  4. How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues
  5. Going travelling? Don't forget insurance (and to read the fine print)
  6. Where do dreams come from?
  7. should I lie to my children about Santa?
  8. Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotely
  9. Human rights in 2018 – ten issues that made headlines
  10. How researchers assess whether medications work
  11. the power of a symbol
  12. The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says so
  13. forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
  14. The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security
  15. Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018
  16. The problems with small satellites – and what Australia's Space Agency can do to help
  17. Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth
  18. The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
  19. how working parents manage school holidays and their jobs
  20. Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content
  21. Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter
  22. love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
  23. Men get postnatal depression too, and as the mother's main support, they need help
  24. Darwin port's sale is a blueprint for China's future economic expansion
  25. 35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us
  26. Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?
  27. Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war
  28. Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger
  29. Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about
  30. Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring
  31. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  32. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
  33. Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it
  34. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  35. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  36. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  37. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  38. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  39. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  40. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  41. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  42. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  43. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  44. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  45. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  46. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  47. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  48. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  49. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  50. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW

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