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GetUp! on the impact of US corporate tax cuts on wages

  • Written by: Fabrizio Carmignani, Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
GetUp! on the impact of US corporate tax cuts on wagesGetUp! national director Paul Oosting.GetUp!GetUp! on the impact of US corporate tax cuts on wagesGraph: GetUp! Australia Instagram post, July 2018.Graph: GetUp! Australia, Instagram

Graph shared by GetUp! Australia on Facebook and Instagram, July 2018

Debate continues over the Turnbull government’s proposal to cut the corporate tax rate from 30% to 25% for businesses with turnover of more than...

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Button batteries kill. Here's how we can prevent needless child deaths from battery ingestion

  • Written by: Yvonne Zurynski, Associate Professor Health Systems Sustainability, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Button batteries kill. Here's how we can prevent needless child deaths from battery ingestionMore needs to be done to prevent deaths from button batteries. from www.shutterstock.com

Dr Ruth Barker, Director of Queensland’s Injury Surveillance Unit is an emergency paediatrician, and an advocate for button battery injury prevention. She is the lead author of this article.


In 2013, four-year-old Summer Steer died from acute blood loss...

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or, the case against trigger warnings

  • Written by: Stephanie Trigg, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of Melbourne
or, the case against trigger warningsA makeshift memorial to Eurydice Dixon at Princes Park on June 16.Ellen Smith/AAP

It was an ordinary lecture to first-year students, on “Women Writers and Modernism.” My brief was to introduce the different ways men and women responded to the social, intellectual and artistic challenges of the modernist movement.

This is a subject about...

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they aren't all blue, and mining them requires luck plus labour

  • Written by: Lynda Lawson, PhD candidate , The University of Queensland
they aren't all blue, and mining them requires luck plus labourSapphire beads in a Jaipur workshop. Lynda Lawson , Author provided

My favourite gem is an occasional series where we ask a scientist to share the fascinating geological and social features of a beautiful rock. Part 1 is here.


I first remember seeing sapphires as a teenager in a jeweller’s shop in Silver Street in pre-Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh...

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