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rejecting neoliberalism shouldn't mean giving up on social liberalism

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
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Richard Denniss’s Quarterly Essay, “Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next”, is a thought-provoking call to arms against an array of perceived ills – economic rationalism, market forces, small government, tax cuts, incentives, even corporate sponsorship.

Denniss provides a useful provocation...

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Patriarchs on pedestals? How doctors are taught to improve their bedside manner

  • Written by: Mark Wilson, Associate professor, University of Wollongong
Patriarchs on pedestals? How doctors are taught to improve their bedside mannerStudent doctors need good role models to learn good patient communication. from www.shutterstock.com

Up until around 30 years ago, in the days of paper patient files, doctors were on pedestals and patients generally did as they were told, in a more patriarchal model of patient care. Over 2,400 years ago, Hippocrates wrote:

The physician ought also...

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Creating research value needs more than just science – arts, humanities, social sciences can help

  • Written by: Rachel A. Ankeny, Professor of History and Associate Dean Research (Faculty of Arts), University of Adelaide
Creating research value needs more than just science – arts, humanities, social sciences can helpActually yes, science and the arts do work together. from www.shutterstock.com

This week we’re launching Making science for people, a series of articles that explores how humanities, arts and social sciences expertise is applied to problems typically corralled into the science and technology space.

In this first piece, Rachel and Lisa set the...

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How the Anglican Church has hardened its stance against same-sex marriage

  • Written by: Muriel Porter, Honorary Research Fellow, Trinity College Theological School, University of Divinity

In the aftermath of the legalising of same-sex marriage in Australia, the Anglican Church has ramped up its discrimination against gay people to new heights.

Not content simply with the discrimination built into the legislation – per ministers of religion to refuse to marry same-sex couples – conservatives in the Anglican Church are...

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  2. apartments are Australia at its most multicultural
  3. the unmissable films of Sydney Film Festival
  4. Clive Palmer's back on the trail, with Brian Burston in tow
  5. Bees get stressed at work too (and it might be causing colony collapse)
  6. you don't know who else could be watching
  7. Why stereotypes of sexy women fans persist at the World Cup
  8. should healthy people take probiotic supplements?
  9. Transgender kids get their own health-care guidelines
  10. Greer is right to say rape law has failings, but wrong to suggest its decriminalisation
  11. Hobart's poorer suburbs are missing out on the 'MONA effect'
  12. Technology is both a weapon and a shield for those experiencing domestic violence
  13. Why your local supermarket is getting smaller
  14. To design safer parks for women, city planners must listen to their stories
  15. China and India’s border dispute is a slow-moving environmental disaster
  16. Three issues language proficiency can hide for students from non-English speaking backgrounds
  17. Threat to the ABC is not sale but more bullying
  18. Wollemi pines are dinosaur trees
  19. Protecting Google from defamation is worth seriously considering
  20. Fallen Kingdom where new dinosaurs emerge but who are the real monsters?
  21. Why soccer is falling behind footy and rugby in Australia
  22. Michelle Grattan on the child abuse royal commission response and One Nation's blow-up
  23. how heat and spice might affect our appetite
  24. why women are enraged by advice to steer clear of violent men
  25. Co-creation can help our companies compete with global giants
  26. Genuine breakthrough or pause in hostilities? After the summit, the world must again wait and see
  27. Aim for cities of all sizes to give everyone a fair go
  28. Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture
  29. The 5G network threatens to overcrowd the airwaves, putting weather radar at risk
  30. should all women do pelvic floor exercises?
  31. Indigenous treaties are meaningless without addressing the issue of sovereignty
  32. poor wage growth means interest rates could be low for a long time
  33. Could Australia win, really? The science of predicting the World Cup champion
  34. what are abortion clinic safe-access zones and where do they exist in Australia?
  35. School vision and mission statements should not be dismissed as empty words
  36. The loners who lead, and trash, 'personality' parties
  37. can tea towels cause food poisoning?
  38. Why solvents can affect brain health even at low levels of exposure
  39. From outsized dinosaurs to outrunning hot lava in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
  40. Why electronic surveillance monitoring may not reduce youth crime
  41. Life, death, gravity, sex and string theory in The Mathematics of Longing
  42. Why gig workers may be worse off after the Fair Work Ombudsman's action against Foodora
  43. Research reveals Australians are shy about expressing political views on social media
  44. Why some Western companies are distancing themselves from the World Cup brand
  45. Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years. Time is running out for the frozen continent
  46. Should I get the flu shot if I'm pregnant?
  47. Secret men's business – why the public image of economics is bad news for all of us
  48. The Australian women expats who found liberation in the US
  49. Ocean waves and lack of floating ice can trigger Antarctic ice shelves to disintegrate
  50. How flexischools could help close the gap in Indigenous education

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