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Three billion per year. How the financial system rips us off

  • Written by: Robert Drake, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University
Three billion per year. How the financial system rips us offThere's still money to be made steering people into bad products.Shutterstock

The Royal Commission into Financial Services is getting wins.

On Monday, ahead of an appearance by a Baptist minister whose adult son with Down Syndrome and a speech impediment had been sold more than A$10,000 of life insurance over the phone, Freedom Insurance announced...

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Artemisia Gentileschi, a Baroque heroine for the #MeToo era

  • Written by: Christopher R. Marshall, Associate Professor of Art History, Curatorship and Museum Studies, University of Melbourne
Artemisia Gentileschi, a Baroque heroine for the #MeToo eraDetail from Artemisia Gentileschi's Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1616. Her role playing predates by centuries the preoccupations of artists such as Cindy Sherman. Wikimedia

Artemisia Gentileschi’s 17th-century painting, Self Portrait As Saint Catherine Of Alexandria, became only the 21st work by a female artist to enter...

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Why it's so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robots

  • Written by: Rain Liivoja, Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
Why it's so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robotsThe MK 15 Phalanx close-in weapons system, on the USS Reuben James guided-missile frigate, fires during an exercise. Flickr/US Pacific Fleet, CC BY-NC

For several years, civil society groups have been calling for a ban on what they call “killer robots”. Scores of technologists have lent their voice to the cause. Some two dozen...

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Happiness hinges on personality, so initiatives to improve well-being need to be tailor-made

  • Written by: Luke Smillie, Senior Lecturer in Personality Psychology, University of Melbourne
Happiness hinges on personality, so initiatives to improve well-being need to be tailor-madeThe same interventions for happiness and well-being won't work for everyone.bewakoof com official unsplash

Happiness, it’s been said, is the goal of all human endeavour. Why else do we strive to improve medicine, strengthen economies, raise literacy, lower poverty, or fight prejudice? It all boils down to improving human well-being.

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