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Fear not, shoppers: Amazon's Australian geoblock won't cramp your style

  • Written by: Gary Mortimer, Associate Professor in Marketing and International Business, Queensland University of Technology
Fear not, shoppers: Amazon's Australian geoblock won't cramp your styleWill there be fewer of these on Australian doorsteps?Ink Drop/Shutterstock.com

Online retail giant Amazon’s decision to block Australian shoppers from its US website has prompted an outpouring of anger from its customers. However, economic statistics indicate the actual value of online purchased products entering Australia from international...

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Hitchcock's Psycho and the power of jarring music

  • Written by: Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
Hitchcock's Psycho and the power of jarring musicBernard Herrmann’s music for the final scene in Psycho fragments and breaks down, echoing the psychotic episode experienced by the character Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).Graphics: Emil Jeyaratnam/The Conversation; Image: Still from 'Psycho' (1960)

What makes a film a classic? In this column, film scholar Bruce Isaacs looks at the...

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understanding online commenting culture shows us how to improve it

  • Written by: Renee Barnes, Senior Lecturer, Journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast
understanding online commenting culture shows us how to improve itThe way user interfaces are designed can impact the kind of community that gathers.Shutterstock

Do you call that a haircut? I hope you didn’t pay for it.

Oh please this is rubbish, you’re a disgrace to yourself and your profession.

These are just two examples of comments that have followed articles I have written in my career. While they...

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New Zealand's productivity commission charts course to low-emission future

  • Written by: Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University
New Zealand's productivity commission charts course to low-emission futureAccording to a recent report, New Zealand will need to increase renewable electricity generation, plant more trees and continue switching to electric transport more rapidly to achieve its zero carbon goal by 2050.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

New Zealand has set itself a target of becoming carbon-neutral by 2050.

A recent report issued by the...

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  2. the tallest flowering plant in the world
  3. The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you age
  4. The Coalition's income tax cuts will help the rich more, but in a decade everyone pays more anyway
  5. strategic anxieties about rising China
  6. A survey needs to involve how many people before I'm convinced?
  7. Michelle Grattan on Barnaby Joyce's TV deal, Greg Hunt's temperament and One Nation in a pickle
  8. when art, freedom of speech and social media collide
  9. Western Sydney Aerotropolis won't build itself – a lot is riding on what governments do
  10. Children with severe trauma can be fostered, and recover with the right treatment and care
  11. Is your dog happy? Ten common misconceptions about dog behaviour
  12. why real change requires a major cultural shift
  13. What we know about why Chinese students come to Australia to study
  14. Why nanotechnology is more than just a buzzword
  15. How we're using Darwin's theory of evolution to build robots that can adapt and learn on their own
  16. Italy is broke, and the markets have lost all faith in its elected politicians
  17. how do you measure remorse?
  18. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: The explainer episode
  19. Pauline unplugged lets rip against Senate colleague
  20. Winners and losers on the tests of judgement, temperament and character
  21. Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequality
  22. A new family 'super court' may not save time or result in better judgments
  23. Australia's major dance companies need to step up on gender equality
  24. Like sightseeing in Paris – a new model for brain communication
  25. Winter is coming, and it's looking mighty mild
  26. 13 Reasons Why season 2 could still be problematic, but content warnings might help
  27. Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
  28. How children's picturebooks can disrupt existing language hierarchies
  29. Australia's foreign real estate investment boom looks to be over. Here are five things we learned
  30. A new, data-based checklist to help boost women in science leadership
  31. Darwin's On the Origin of Species
  32. Specialists are free to set their fees, but there are ways to ensure patients don't get ripped off
  33. The future is fenced for Australian animals
  34. We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
  35. Labor to put test vote on phasing out live sheep trade
  36. Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics
  37. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case
  38. Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air
  39. Michael McCormack on Barnaby's future, latte sippers and other matters
  40. Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment
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  42. Accountability is key to building trust in Australia's intelligence community
  43. Australia's fragile grasslands at the Venice Biennale
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  45. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
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  47. Universities need to do more to support refugee students
  48. Why blowing the 1.5C global warming goal will leave poor tropical nations sweating most of all
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