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the evolution of the Australian wine label

  • Written by: Dr Moya Costello, Adjunct Lecturer, Southern Cross University
the evolution of the Australian wine labelThis wine label referenced bikinis and beaches. Thankfully, things have become a little more sophisticated since in our understanding of place.Author provided

While we can tell the most about wine by drinking it, the door into this experience for bottled wine is the label. Clearly important from a marketing perspective, most Australian labels also...

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Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery

  • Written by: Nicole Sutton, Lecturer in Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discoveryThe first kangaroo-leather bound ledgers of what became Westpac, photographed in the Westpac archives.Westpac archives, Author provided

One of Australia’s biggest banks, currently under scrutiny at the royal commission, has a long history.

The Bank of New South Wales, which later became Westpac, was established in 1817 under a charter of...

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Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research

  • Written by: Mark Evans, Professor of Governance and Director of Democracy 2025 - bridging the trust divide at Old Parliament House, University of Canberra

Over the past four years, we have conducted a range of attitudinal surveys with the Social Research Institute at Ipsos on the relationship between trust in the political system and attitudes towards democracy in Australia.

Our latest research, conducted in July 2018 (prior to the Liberal Party’s leadership spill), includes a quantitative...

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What younger people can learn from older people about using technology

  • Written by: Bernardo Figueiredo, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
What younger people can learn from older people about using technologyTwo thirds of Australians over 65 use social media.Shutterstock

Older people are often portrayed in the media as being technically challenged. Jokes are often shared on social media about older people taking photos on their phones with their thumb covering the lens, or accidentally installing viruses on computers.

Some of these damaging stereotypes...

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  1. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  2. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  3. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  4. how cities can make room for water
  5. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  6. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
  7. New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy
  8. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
  9. Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here's why
  10. free speech and Australian universities
  11. Here's the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)
  12. Operatic goddess Vivica Genaux reigns supreme in a lyrical study of conflicting desires
  13. Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks
  14. NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
  15. Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
  16. what it is and why it needs updating
  17. Australians think immigration should be cut? Well, it depends on how you ask
  18. here's how we avoid feeling guilty
  19. I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
  20. Fracking policies are wildly inconsistent across Australia, from gung-ho development to total bans
  21. Escher x nendo will surprise, delight and challenge
  22. Health impacts and murky decision-making feed public distrust of projects like WestConnex
  23. New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far
  24. Liberals adopt new rule to stop the revolving prime ministership
  25. Craig Kelly triumphs in the 'outwit, outplay, outlast' game of Survivor
  26. Adani's new mini version of its mega mine still faces some big hurdles
  27. what is nitrous oxide (or nangs) and how dangerous is it?
  28. G20 summit bring a truce in US-China trade relations – but it's likely to be temporary
  29. What existed before the Big Bang? Did something have to be there to go boom?
  30. Turnbull versus Morrison in Liberal crisis over Craig Kelly
  31. why more older Australians are living in share houses
  32. Yes, you can adopt a pet as a Christmas gift – so long as you do it correctly
  33. It's not just Newstart. Single parents are $271 per fortnight worse off. Labor needs an overarching welfare review
  34. How a candidate's looks may be swinging your vote (without you even realising it)
  35. why you might get the runs before a first date
  36. the origins of Rocky Horror's Frank-N-furter
  37. At last, Australia has a Modern Slavery Act. Here's what you'll need to know
  38. As they meet in Poland for the next steps, nations are struggling to agree on how the ambitions of the Paris Agreement can be realised
  39. Why battery-powered vehicles stack up better than hydrogen
  40. Yes, Knickers the steer is really, really big. But he's far short of true genetic freak status
  41. Why Tony Abbott's appointment as Indigenous envoy was a diplomatic blunder and policy failure
  42. Warty hammer orchids are sexual deceivers
  43. the science of sleep and the economics of sleeplessness
  44. Michelle Grattan on the government's week from hell
  45. Why Australia's anti-vilification laws matter
  46. Stone tools date early humans in North Africa to 2.4 million years ago
  47. What makes the G20 a force for global good – when its members agree they want it to be
  48. Four in ten Australians think women lie about being victims of sexual assault
  49. Happy birthday, SA's big battery, and many happy returns (of your recyclable parts)
  50. Why daily doses of nature in the city matter for people and the planet

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