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ANU's new entrance criteria won't do much to improve equity

  • Written by: Shane Duggan, Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University

The Australian National University recently announced that from 2020 it will require all students to meet co-curricular requirements alongside the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) requirement.

The diverse list of co-curricular requirements includes part-time employment, participation in the creative arts, sports, and community and service...

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Why do our ears pop?

  • Written by: Chris Brennan-Jones, NHMRC Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia
Why do our ears pop?You may need to pop your ears by yawning when you go up in a plane.

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 – serious, weird or wacky!


Hi Curious Kids, My name is James and I live in Melbourne and I’m...

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Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutions

  • Written by: Joe Burton, Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutionsThe growing global market in cyber crime is projected to hit US$6 trillion by 2021.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

As the investigation into Russia’s interference in the US election deepens, it is becoming obvious that the events in 2016 are just the tip of an iceberg.

Ever since the Russian cyber assault on Estonia in 2007, policymakers...

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The world’s economic crisis-fighting mechanisms are dangerously inadequate

  • Written by: Adam Triggs, Research fellow, Australian National University

It was only in January that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was celebrating the strength of the global economy, heralding “the broadest synchronised global growth upsurge since 2010”.

How quickly things have changed.

Argentina has since sought a bailout from the IMF, Turkey is facing a potential currency crisis, Indonesia is...

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  1. Greens release annual figures for income tax package
  2. Turnbull wants Joyce to have continuing 'prominent role' in public life
  3. The flu vaccine is being oversold – it's not that effective
  4. why Chinese telecoms participating in Australia's 5G network could be a problem
  5. Labor trailing in Longman and Braddon, and how Senate changes helped the Coalition
  6. No evidence that sexbots reduce harms to women and children
  7. Airbnb regulation needs to distinguish between sharing and plain old commercial letting
  8. The House of Bernada Alba is an extraordinary portrait of imposed silence and female misogyny
  9. Why industrial manslaughter laws are unlikely to save lives in the workplace
  10. five medicinal plants used by Aboriginal Australians
  11. Australian drama in the 1970s
  12. Traditional Aboriginal healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
  13. Combining the facial recognition decisions of humans and computers can prevent costly mistakes
  14. Fed up with always being in the slow queue? That's why queues are being 'designed out'
  15. How changes to UK law may provide more dual citizenship drama
  16. To improve internships and placements, embed technology in their design
  17. Many women with breast cancer may not need chemo, but beware misleading headlines
  18. Public Service Commissioner targeted over IPA links resigns
  19. Why hip fractures in the elderly are often a death sentence
  20. Remember Turnbull's 2015 'ideas boom'? We're still only part way there
  21. How stigma impacts LGB health and wellbeing in Australia
  22. Caring for elderly Australians in a home-like setting can reduce hospital visits
  23. Growing cities face challenges of keeping the masses moving up, down and across
  24. Australia needs to reset the relationship with China and stay cool
  25. Fear not, shoppers: Amazon's Australian geoblock won't cramp your style
  26. Hitchcock's Psycho and the power of jarring music
  27. understanding online commenting culture shows us how to improve it
  28. New Zealand's productivity commission charts course to low-emission future
  29. Joyce admits he knew as soon as Campion was pregnant that he'd lose his job
  30. the tallest flowering plant in the world
  31. The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you age
  32. The Coalition's income tax cuts will help the rich more, but in a decade everyone pays more anyway
  33. strategic anxieties about rising China
  34. A survey needs to involve how many people before I'm convinced?
  35. Michelle Grattan on Barnaby Joyce's TV deal, Greg Hunt's temperament and One Nation in a pickle
  36. when art, freedom of speech and social media collide
  37. Western Sydney Aerotropolis won't build itself – a lot is riding on what governments do
  38. Children with severe trauma can be fostered, and recover with the right treatment and care
  39. Is your dog happy? Ten common misconceptions about dog behaviour
  40. why real change requires a major cultural shift
  41. What we know about why Chinese students come to Australia to study
  42. Why nanotechnology is more than just a buzzword
  43. How we're using Darwin's theory of evolution to build robots that can adapt and learn on their own
  44. Italy is broke, and the markets have lost all faith in its elected politicians
  45. how do you measure remorse?
  46. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: The explainer episode
  47. Pauline unplugged lets rip against Senate colleague
  48. Winners and losers on the tests of judgement, temperament and character
  49. Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequality
  50. A new family 'super court' may not save time or result in better judgments

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