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Spirals and circles, snakes and ladders. Why women's super is complex

  • Written by: Kathleen Riach, Associate Professor in Management, Monash University
Spirals and circles, snakes and ladders. Why women's super is complexWomen asked to draw their careers draw circles, zig zags and snakes and ladders. Shutterstock

This week’s International Day of Older Persons reminds us Australia has made an international commitment to work towards the eradication of poverty in old age, and that at least one side of politics, Labor, has developed a suite of policies it says...

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How two 1990s discoveries have led to (some) cured cancers, and a Nobel Prize

  • Written by: Craig Gedye, Oncologist and Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle

This year’s award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine to Dr James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, for their work in the early 1990s on immune checkpoint proteins CTLA4 and PD1, is a fitting recognition of how their work has led to a seismic shift in the way we treat cancer.


Read more: James Allison and Tasuku Honjo:...

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Ten photos that changed how we see human rights

  • Written by: Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia
Ten photos that changed how we see human rightsThis 1904 photograph showing the massacre of villagers by Dutch KNIL forces in the Indonesian village of Koetö Réh was used by the Dutch to argue for the paternalistic colonial state as protector. We now see it as evidence of imperial atrocity.Collection Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen.

Nearly 70 years ago, in December 1948, the...

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Relax. The divide between the taxed and the 'taxed-nots' isn't new and doesn't buy elections

  • Written by: Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Relax. The divide between the taxed and the 'taxed-nots' isn't new and doesn't buy electionsIt's unsurprising that a large number of people pay no net tax.Shutterstock

Might government benefits, and government employment, be a self sustaining machine – one in which those who benefit from government payments deliver the votes needed to ensure they continue?

It’s a proposition seriously put forward by researchers at the Centre...

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  1. Labor to hold its own 'hearings' for bank victims
  2. Why a national apology and redress for discharged LGBT service members matters
  3. Our fast-growing cities and their people are proving to be remarkably adaptable
  4. rivers were the highways of Australia's colonial history
  5. The NDIS hasn't made much difference to carers' opportunities for paid work
  6. A new national set of priorities for VET would make great social and economic sense
  7. Satellite measurements of slow ground movements may provide a better tool for earthquake forecasting
  8. Why the media needs to be more responsible for how it links Islam and Islamist terrorism
  9. Three simple steps to fix our banks
  10. Retraction of a journal article doesn't make its findings false
  11. Hayne holds fire, but the banks' day of reckoning is coming
  12. The NDIS is delivering 'reasonable and necessary' supports for some, but others are missing out
  13. Women’s surfing riding wave towards gender equity
  14. what is Pentecostalism, and how might it influence Scott Morrison's politics?
  15. Trust has to be as important as profit if banks and their boards are to regain their corporate legitimacy
  16. The planned national waste policy won't deliver a truly circular economy
  17. Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream
  18. why did mammals go the fur route, rather than developing feathers?
  19. The problem isn't dockless share bikes. It's the lack of bike parking
  20. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: Australia's extreme weather
  21. The problem with Australia's banks is one of too much law and too little enforcement
  22. Royal Commission shows banks have behaved appallingly, but we've helped them do it
  23. the importance of pilot checklists
  24. Speaking out about sexual violence on social media may not challenge gendered power relations
  25. 'Things are so bad that new laws might not help'
  26. 'The worst kind of pain you can imagine' – what it's like to be stung by a stinging tree
  27. Michelle Grattan on ABC turmoil, the federal budget and the controversy over Australia Day
  28. How the laws of ancient Rome could help victims of sexual harassment in Australia
  29. SharkSpotter combines AI and drone technology to spot sharks and aid swimmers on Australian beaches
  30. let's take a ride across Australia
  31. a linguistic 'shirtfronting' for lovers and haters of sports alike
  32. How teachers can help support children during their parents’ divorce
  33. how the moral panic over 'sexual sadists' silenced their victims
  34. Four lessons for Australia from England's system of rating its aged care homes
  35. Ten lessons from cities that have risen to the affordable housing challenge
  36. Will 2018 be the year of climate action? Victorian London's 'Great Stink' sewer crisis might tell us
  37. for all its worth, the banking royal commission could hurt a generation of battlers
  38. Health care is getting cheaper (unless you need a specialist, or a dentist)
  39. ABC's challenge is to 'keep calm and carry on'
  40. With Justin Milne gone, how does the ABC go about restoring its crucial independence?
  41. Bring on the royal commission, but we have a plan to act on aged care right now
  42. We need to talk about the mental health of content moderators
  43. Man With The Iron Neck is gripping, confronting physical theatre
  44. Just because you're thin, doesn't mean you're healthy
  45. Justin Milne quits as ABC chairman after furore over attack on political editor
  46. Why an education in visual arts is the key to arming students for the future
  47. seven reasons you should respect the ref in the NRL Grand Final
  48. How ABC chairman Justin Milne compromised the independence of the national broadcaster
  49. ABC Board Chair over-reaches in a bid to appease hostile government
  50. Why a separate holiday for Indigenous Australians misses the point

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