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Quotas are not pretty but they work – Liberal women should insist on them

  • Written by: Chris Wallace, ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
Quotas are not pretty but they work – Liberal women should insist on themLiberal women such as those in the Morrison ministry, pictured here, should organise to achieve structural change - the only kind that ever sticks.AAP/Lukas Coch

It is an historic moment for Liberal Party women. Individual complaints of sexist bullying invariably end with the lone complainant being isolated and getting crunched.

But since the...

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Why does English have so many different spelling rules?

  • Written by: Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
Why does English have so many different spelling rules?More spelling problems came in when French scribes introduced new spelling conventions — their own of course, and not always helpful.Shutterstock, CC BY

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 –...

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the GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
the GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd spent big and spent bold, and it almost certainly kept us out of recession.

A little more than a decade on from the the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in history, many of the world’s advanced economies are only now beginning to recover fully.

I was on the faculty at the University of Chicago at...

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How Fulfilment Services in Australia Help Businesses Scale Efficiently

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