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Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequality

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequalityThe Brotherhood of St Laurence's "Share the Pie" campaign posters are appearing at Canberra bus stops.Brotherhood of St Laurence/supplied, CC BY-SA

The Brotherhood of St Laurence has underway a campaign with the slogan “Share the Pie” highlighting the inadequacy of the Newstart allowance. The Brotherhood is also arguing the social...

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A new family 'super court' may not save time or result in better judgments

  • Written by: Miranda Kaye, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
A new family 'super court' may not save time or result in better judgmentsThe nation's family law system has long been in need of reform and greater resources.Shutterstock

Attorney-General Christian Porter has just announced the proposed merger of the Family Court of Australia (FCA) and the Federal Circuit Court (FCC) to create a new “super court” with a mouthful of a name: the Federal Circuit and Family...

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Australia's major dance companies need to step up on gender equality

  • Written by: Andrew Westle, Assistant researcher and PhD candidate, La Trobe University

The dance sector in Australia has a gender equality problem. While nearly 70% of people working in the industry identify as female, there is a significant gender gap in programming and leadership at the major dance companies.

A report released this week, Turning Pointe, by Andrew Westle, looked at the five big dance companies that receive the...

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Like sightseeing in Paris – a new model for brain communication

  • Written by: Caio Seguin, PhD candidate, University of Melbourne
Like sightseeing in Paris – a new model for brain communicationOui! There is more than one way to navigate to the Eiffel Tower. docsearls/flickr , CC BY

Many of our most common, debilitating and socially expensive health problems involve our brains – such as dementia, depression and drug addiction.

We know that regions of our brain are constantly sending and receiving electrical signals through a vast...

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  2. 13 Reasons Why season 2 could still be problematic, but content warnings might help
  3. Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
  4. How children's picturebooks can disrupt existing language hierarchies
  5. Australia's foreign real estate investment boom looks to be over. Here are five things we learned
  6. A new, data-based checklist to help boost women in science leadership
  7. Darwin's On the Origin of Species
  8. Specialists are free to set their fees, but there are ways to ensure patients don't get ripped off
  9. The future is fenced for Australian animals
  10. We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
  11. Labor to put test vote on phasing out live sheep trade
  12. Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics
  13. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case
  14. Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air
  15. Michael McCormack on Barnaby's future, latte sippers and other matters
  16. Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment
  17. getting caught in a romance scam could cost you your life
  18. Accountability is key to building trust in Australia's intelligence community
  19. Australia's fragile grasslands at the Venice Biennale
  20. Coke has promised 'less sugar', but less is still too much
  21. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
  22. The bugs we carry and how our immune system fights them
  23. Universities need to do more to support refugee students
  24. Why blowing the 1.5C global warming goal will leave poor tropical nations sweating most of all
  25. Superannuation is still mired in the same old issues, and no one is going to fix your nest egg but you
  26. It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
  27. Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?
  28. Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne's a world leader
  29. Barnaby Joyce takes personal leave after horror day
  30. Queensland's new land-clearing laws are all stick and no carrot (but it's time to do better)
  31. The BS and the science of nanotechnology
  32. Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desert
  33. Newspoll asks skewed company tax cut question as Labor gains
  34. New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
  35. Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
  36. University funding debates should be broadened to reflect their democratic purpose
  37. Young people, not employers, should choose super fund: Productivity Commission
  38. is it a white thing?
  39. will the universe expand forever, or contract in a big crunch?
  40. how globalisation spreads infectious diseases
  41. The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time
  42. Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations
  43. Research shows networking is painful, but it can be a lot better
  44. How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
  45. Government 'dares' the Senate on its corporate and income tax packages
  46. Hold your horses – brumby fertility control isn't that easy
  47. what is black salve and why do people think it can cure cancer?
  48. Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond
  49. Independent crossbencher Steve Martin joins Nationals, giving the party a Tasmanian presence
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