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sports stadiums should benefit everyone, not just fans

  • Written by: Jessica Richards, Lecturer Sport Business Management, Western Sydney University
sports stadiums should benefit everyone, not just fansWhen public money is at stake, such as in the redevelopment of the Western Sydney Stadium (artist's rendering shown), people have a right to expect more.Infrastructure New South Wales

Reading through the hundreds of community submissions about the redevelopment of the Sydney Football Stadium, it is clear there is strong opposition to the new venue...

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Initiative Q is not the new Bitcoin, but here’s why the idea has value

  • Written by: Brendan Markey-Towler, Researcher, The University of Queensland
Initiative Q is not the new Bitcoin, but here’s why the idea has valueshutterstock

Could free units of a new digital currency end up being worth thousands of dollars?

Initiative Q, which is aggressively marketing itself on social media, wants you to think so. It urges you to sign up now, and get your friends to do so as well, to maximise the value of your free “Q” currency. This has invited comparisons to...

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Curious Kids: How do we smell?

  • Written by: Rodrigo Suarez, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Curious Kids: How do we smell?The sense of smell helps us know what and where things are, like yummy food. R. Suarez.Author provided

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! You might also like the podcast Imag...

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representation of Australian, New Zealand and Sudan born people in Victorian crime statistics

  • Written by: Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University
representation of Australian, New Zealand and Sudan born people in Victorian crime statisticsCrime and ethnicity: highly divisive issues in the state.Sharon Hahn Darlin/Flickr, CC BY-SA

One of Victoria’s most senior judges has warned the current media reporting and political rhetoric around crime committed by people from South Sudanese backgrounds in Melbourne is “dangerous” and “skewed”.

Interviewed by ABC...

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