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How to stop workers being exploited in the gig economy

  • Written by: Michael Rawling, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

Hot on the heels of the gig economy company Foodora shutting up shop in Australia amid accusations about its labour abuses, a Senate Committee report has recommended more robust laws to protect gig economy workers. But this doesn’t go far enough.

Foodora, which uses bicycle couriers to deliver food, says it has pulled out of Australia to...

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The Japanese art of kintsugi and how it can help with defeat in sport

  • Written by: Brad Elphinstone, Lecturer in psychology., Swinburne University of Technology
The Japanese art of kintsugi and how it can help with defeat in sportKintsugi: don't dwell on something that's broken, repair it and make it something new again.Shutterstock/Lia t

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley recently revealed that he’d embraced the Japanese art of kintsugi in coaching a team that few predicted would make the AFL Grand Final at the start of the year.

Even though the result didn’t work...

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Why everyone benefits from getting more three-year-olds into preschool

  • Written by: Alison Elliott, Professor of Education, CQUniversity Australia

On Thursday, the Labor party pledged an additional A$1.75 billion for early education if elected the next government of Australia. This is the largest investment in early childhood education in Australian history.

Most of this investment will go towards funding 15 hours a week of free preschool or kindy for three-year-old children. This means all...

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Michelle Grattan on Labor's election focused policies and the government's new GST formula

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Michelle Grattan speaks with University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics. They discuss the Labor party’s announcement of a series of roundtables to hear more banking victims where the Royal Commission hasn’t visited, and their announcement that a Labor government would subsidise preschool...

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  1. Daylight saving is not something for economists to lose sleep over
  2. Shorten's difficult dance on national security should not limit scrutiny of home affairs
  3. Multicultural leader Chin Tan is new Race Discrimination Commissioner
  4. Building sea walls is a small bandaid on a gaping wound
  5. popular music's search for the sacred in a secular world
  6. Social media entertainment could be the future of the screen industry, so let's not strangle it with regulation
  7. how DNA damage as we age causes cancer
  8. Teachers and trainers are vital to the quality of the VET sector, and to the success of its learners
  9. Liberals plan for May election but Morrison might look better in March
  10. The power of a hug can help you cope with conflict
  11. what to do about the global pilot shortage
  12. An insurance discount for your fitness data is a bad deal in the long run
  13. World politics explainer: The twin-tower bombings (9/11)
  14. ACTU push for industry bargaining increases pressure on Labor
  15. Aung San Suu Kyi's extraordinary fall from grace
  16. A Shorten government would subsidise pre-school for three year olds
  17. How city squares can be public places of protest or centres of state control
  18. playing our finest songs to those lost on the Western Front
  19. Five ways to reduce waste (and save money) on your home renovation
  20. We need to change negative views of the jobs VET serves to make it a good post-school option
  21. How to improve the NDIS for people who have an intellectual disability as well as a mental illness
  22. what's the history of aircraft squawk codes and how do they work?
  23. States want the GST guarantee set in legislative stone
  24. Clare O'Neil on Labor's listening tour for banking victims
  25. finally, another woman awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics
  26. 'Honeygate' deepens as new tests reveal 27% of brands are adulterated
  27. research finds that 40% of people over 50 drink too much
  28. Digitising social services could further exclude people already on the margins
  29. When unborn children are killed, how does the law deal with culpability?
  30. The fall of the Berlin Wall
  31. Essays On Air: the politics of curry
  32. Why Indonesia's tsunamis are so deadly
  33. our secret weapon to fight corruption
  34. Australia's obsession with opinion polls is eroding political leadership
  35. City + Empire contains wonderful objects but elides the bloody cost of imperialism
  36. The vocational education sector needs a plan and action, not more talk
  37. Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housing
  38. Facebook hack reveals the perils of using a single account to log in to other services
  39. Would a better tsunami warning system have saved lives in Sulawesi?
  40. Explainer: what is Helicobacter pylori?
  41. Spirals and circles, snakes and ladders. Why women's super is complex
  42. How two 1990s discoveries have led to (some) cured cancers, and a Nobel Prize
  43. Ten photos that changed how we see human rights
  44. Relax. The divide between the taxed and the 'taxed-nots' isn't new and doesn't buy elections
  45. Labor to hold its own 'hearings' for bank victims
  46. Why a national apology and redress for discharged LGBT service members matters
  47. Our fast-growing cities and their people are proving to be remarkably adaptable
  48. rivers were the highways of Australia's colonial history
  49. The NDIS hasn't made much difference to carers' opportunities for paid work
  50. A new national set of priorities for VET would make great social and economic sense

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