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The promise and problems of including 'big data' in official government statistics

  • Written by: Fleur Johns, Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research), UNSW
The promise and problems of including 'big data' in official government statisticsOfficial statistics help to shape a population’s sense of itself.Izumo Taisha/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will soon announce the kinds of information it will collect in the next national census in 2021. If international trends are a guide, “big data” will comprise a growing part of ABS data...

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Two birds with one stone. How better taxing super could fund aged care

  • Written by: Ben Spies-Butcher, Senior Lecturer in Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University
Two birds with one stone. How better taxing super could fund aged careProperly funding the aged care we need will require innovative solutions. Better taxing super is one of them.Shutterstock

Getting aged care right is difficult. It involves staff training, qualifications and ratios, the entry of for-profit providers and ensuring access in regional areas – many of the issues highlighted in this year’s...

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Smart mobility alone is no substitute for strong policy leadership

  • Written by: Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology
Smart mobility alone is no substitute for strong policy leadershipMost transport resources are being used inefficiently. The Canberra Transport Photo shows the road space required to move 69 people using public transport, bicycles and private motor vehicles.Cycling Promotion Fund, CC BY

Transport, mobility and congestion continue to be hotly debated topics in politics, the media, academia and soon at the Urban...

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Luke Foley's resignation is a disaster for Labor but may not bolster Berejiklian much either

  • Written by: Michael Hogan, Associate Professor and Honorary Associate, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Luke Foley's resignation is a disaster for Labor but may not bolster Berejiklian much eitherLuke Foley holds his resignation press conference, in a disaster for Labor as it prepares for an election in just over four months.

The resignation of Luke Foley as Labor opposition leader in New South Wales is a disaster for the party as it faces a March 23 general election - but it isn’t necessarily great news for the ailing Berejiklian...

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  1. How to restore trust in governments and institutions
  2. Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's QandA appearance, Morrison's bus tour, and antics in NSW
  3. Encouraging suicide or committing manslaughter?
  4. Origins and implications of the caravan of Honduran migrants
  5. How tracking people moving together through time creates powerful data
  6. Australia and China push the 'reset' button on an important relationship
  7. How a Sri Lankan student's arrest on terror charges exposes a system built to suspect minorities
  8. Don't give up on politics. It's where the fight for the fair go must be won
  9. 100 years since the WW1 Armistice, Remembrance Day remains a powerful reminder of the cost of war
  10. It's time Australia's conscientious objectors of WW1 were remembered, too
  11. how Australia's war art scheme fed national mythologies of WW1
  12. The benefits – and pitfalls – of working in isolation
  13. How the open banking API could transform financial services to benefit consumers
  14. One in four Australians are lonely, which affects their physical and mental health
  15. Before replacing a carer with a robot, we need to assess the pros and cons
  16. Chris Ho and Edgar Liu about diversity and high density in our cities
  17. Why we distrust the consumer price index
  18. If Australia cares about Pacific nations, we should also invest in their care givers
  19. Turnbull tells Liberals to answer that unanswerable question
  20. How to keep slave-caught seafood off your plate
  21. how massive solar eruptions 'probably' detonated dozens of US sea mines
  22. why atrocity tourism is neither new nor weird
  23. What it means when scientists say their results are 'significant'
  24. is the world's oldest rock art in Southeast Asia?
  25. Little Women at 150 and the patriarch who shaped the book's tone
  26. Learning music early can make your child a better reader
  27. The Google walkout is a watershed moment in 21st century labour activism
  28. why many are using painkillers for emotional relief
  29. Who wins and who loses when platforms like Airbnb disrupt housing? And how do you regulate it?
  30. Morrison to unveil broad suite of measures to boost Australia's influence in the Pacific
  31. Democrats take House at US midterm elections, but Republicans keep Senate; Labor well ahead in Victoria
  32. Andrew Giles on the growing issue of loneliness
  33. It's not quite a 'red wave', but the US midterms show the power of Trump's divisive messages
  34. Will the arrival of El Niño mean fewer mosquitoes this summer?
  35. No butts – it’s time to help people with mental health conditions quit smoking
  36. Why Scott Morrison's white, male music playlists matter
  37. Let's not focus on graduate incomes when assessing the worth of education
  38. Morrison and Shorten reveal their positions on key foreign policy questions
  39. Are there living things on different galaxies?
  40. Why we should worry less about retirement
  41. If we're serious about supporting working families, here are three policies we need to enact now
  42. 69 pharmaceuticals found in invertebrates living in Melbourne's streams
  43. Chinese migrants follow and add to Australian city dwellers' giant ecological footprints
  44. David Malouf's An Open Book is poetry to sit with
  45. The curious case of the missing workplace teaspoons
  46. How we wiped out the invasive African big-headed ant from Lord Howe Island
  47. quetiapine, the antipsychotic 'sleeping pill' linked to overdoses
  48. who really owns the name and the knowledge
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