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How the 'yeah-but' mentality stalls progress on bag bans and other green issues

  • Written by: Anne Lane, Academic and researcher, Queensland University of Technology
How the 'yeah-but' mentality stalls progress on bag bans and other green issuesIs forgetting your bags really such an inconvenience?AAP Image/Peter Rae

The debacle over the removal of single-use plastic bags from supermarkets has been analysed from a range of different perspectives. Supermarkets have been described as breaking a psychological trust contract with their customers and cynically using environmental concerns to...

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what if it is wrong?

  • Written by: Niels Wouters, Research Fellow, Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces, University of Melbourne
what if it is wrong?Biometric Mirror is an interactive application that takes your photo and analyses it to identify your demographic and personality characteristics.Shutterstock

In 2002, the sci-fi thriller Minority Report gave us a fictionalised glimpse of life in 2054.

Initially, the movie evokes a perfect utopian society where artificial intelligence (AI) is...

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killing rabbits to conserve native mammals

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
killing rabbits to conserve native mammalsControlling rabbit populations has a key role in conserving Australia's native plants and animals William Booth

Invasive species have a devastating effect on biodiversity. In Australia, introduced red foxes and feral cats have been implicated in the majority of the extinctions of the native mammal fauna, which has been decimated since European...

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University students aren't reporting sexual assault, and new guidelines don't address why

  • Written by: Andrea Durbach, Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW
University students aren't reporting sexual assault, and new guidelines don't address whyMany students don't trust universities to do the right thing. So 87% don't report sexual assault on campus, or travelling to and from.Lexi Ruskell/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

Guidelines for how universities should respond to student sexual assault and sexual harassment released late last week fail to address the reason so many students don’t actually...

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