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Daylight saving is not something for economists to lose sleep over

  • Written by: Jayanta Sarkar, Senior Lecturer, Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology
Daylight saving is not something for economists to lose sleep overWaking an hour earlier on Monday won't make you much more dangerous.Shutterstock

Have you ever noticed that casinos don’t have clocks or windows?

That’s partly to encourage customers to lose track of time. Their owners have instinctively understood – long before this recent neuroscience study confirmed it – that...

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Shorten's difficult dance on national security should not limit scrutiny of home affairs

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Shorten's difficult dance on national security should not limit scrutiny of home affairsIf Bill Shorten becomes prime minister, he should not be afraid to take a close look at the effectiveness of the home affairs "super" portfolio.AAP/Dave Hunt

Bill Shorten can’t be accused of lacking flexibility – or sensitivity to the risk of getting wedged on national security.

Polling shows Shorten is vulnerable on security issues.

A...

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Multicultural leader Chin Tan is new Race Discrimination Commissioner

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Multicultural leader Chin Tan is new Race Discrimination CommissionerTan takes up his position on Monday.

The Morrison government has appointed Chin-Leong Tan, a leader in the multicultural community, as the new Race Discrimination Commissioner.

The Malaysian-born Tan, from Victoria, who has most recently been Director of Multicultural Engagement at Swinburne University of Technology, replaces Tim Soutphommasane, who...

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Building sea walls is a small bandaid on a gaping wound

  • Written by: Tayanah O'Donnell, Honorary senior lecturer, Australian National University
Building sea walls is a small bandaid on a gaping woundHow much should a council pay to protect private beachfront properties?AAP Image/Nearmap

The Kingscliff seawall, in the Tweed Shire in northern New South Wales, is an engineering marvel. It is 300 metres long and 6 metres deep, with a projected cost of between A$3 million and A$5 million. Its depth enables it to be covered in sand. When beach...

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