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How tracking people moving together through time creates powerful data

  • Written by: Tiffany Gill, Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
How tracking people moving together through time creates powerful dataA group of people with something in common is called a 'cohort' in research. from www.shutterstock.com

This article is part of the series This is research, where we ask academics to share and discuss open access articles that reveal important aspects of science. Today’s piece looks at a vital concept in medical studies: the cohort.


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Australia and China push the 'reset' button on an important relationship

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University

Australia can thank an erratic Donald Trump for the opportunity to “reset” its relationship with China after a chill engendered by what was interpreted as criticism from the then prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and foreign minister, Julie Bishop.

Turnbull had caused offence with his criticism of Chinese interference in Australian...

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How a Sri Lankan student's arrest on terror charges exposes a system built to suspect minorities

  • Written by: Randa Abdel Fattah, DECRA Research Fellow, Macquarie University
How a Sri Lankan student's arrest on terror charges exposes a system built to suspect minoritiesSensationalised anti-terror raids feed into the normalisation of Muslims and people of colour as 'suspect communities'.Sam Mooy/AAP

The war on terror has resulted in the gradual erosion of basic civil and human rights in the name of security. The latest casualty in Australia is Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen, a 25-year-old PhD student, who was locked up...

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Don't give up on politics. It's where the fight for the fair go must be won

  • Written by: Marc Stears, Professor and Director, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney
Don't give up on politics. It's where the fight for the fair go must be wonGovernments have made a difference to inequality in the past, as Roosevelt's New Deal did in the 1930s, and could do so again if citizens acted to ensure their voices are heard. Wikimedia

This article is the third in the Reclaiming the Fair Go series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the Sydney Democracy Network and the Sydney Peace...

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  2. It's time Australia's conscientious objectors of WW1 were remembered, too
  3. how Australia's war art scheme fed national mythologies of WW1
  4. The benefits – and pitfalls – of working in isolation
  5. How the open banking API could transform financial services to benefit consumers
  6. One in four Australians are lonely, which affects their physical and mental health
  7. Before replacing a carer with a robot, we need to assess the pros and cons
  8. Chris Ho and Edgar Liu about diversity and high density in our cities
  9. Why we distrust the consumer price index
  10. If Australia cares about Pacific nations, we should also invest in their care givers
  11. Turnbull tells Liberals to answer that unanswerable question
  12. How to keep slave-caught seafood off your plate
  13. how massive solar eruptions 'probably' detonated dozens of US sea mines
  14. why atrocity tourism is neither new nor weird
  15. What it means when scientists say their results are 'significant'
  16. is the world's oldest rock art in Southeast Asia?
  17. Little Women at 150 and the patriarch who shaped the book's tone
  18. Learning music early can make your child a better reader
  19. The Google walkout is a watershed moment in 21st century labour activism
  20. why many are using painkillers for emotional relief
  21. Who wins and who loses when platforms like Airbnb disrupt housing? And how do you regulate it?
  22. Morrison to unveil broad suite of measures to boost Australia's influence in the Pacific
  23. Democrats take House at US midterm elections, but Republicans keep Senate; Labor well ahead in Victoria
  24. Andrew Giles on the growing issue of loneliness
  25. It's not quite a 'red wave', but the US midterms show the power of Trump's divisive messages
  26. Will the arrival of El Niño mean fewer mosquitoes this summer?
  27. No butts – it’s time to help people with mental health conditions quit smoking
  28. Why Scott Morrison's white, male music playlists matter
  29. Let's not focus on graduate incomes when assessing the worth of education
  30. Morrison and Shorten reveal their positions on key foreign policy questions
  31. Are there living things on different galaxies?
  32. Why we should worry less about retirement
  33. If we're serious about supporting working families, here are three policies we need to enact now
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  35. Chinese migrants follow and add to Australian city dwellers' giant ecological footprints
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  42. are light dairy products better?
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  45. sports stadiums should benefit everyone, not just fans
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