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Australia's foreign real estate investment boom looks to be over. Here are five things we learned

  • Written by: Dallas Rogers, Program Director, Master of Urbanism. School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney

Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) reported this week that foreign residential real estate approvals dropped significantly in the 2016-17 period.

Whereas 2015-16 saw 40,149 approvals granted, totalling A$72.4 billion, the figure for the following year was just 13,198 approvals, totalling A$25.2 billion. On these numbers, the...

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A new, data-based checklist to help boost women in science leadership

  • Written by: Dominique Potvin, Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast
A new, data-based checklist to help boost women in science leadershipScience societies are a vital part of research life, creating vital networking, grant and leadership opportunities for researchers. from www.shutterstock.com

Gender equity in academic science may seem like a pipe dream, with the percentage of scientific leadership positions held by women in institutions a mere 5-20%

However, new data from science...

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Darwin's On the Origin of Species

  • Written by: Julia Kindt, Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
Darwin's On the Origin of SpeciesA stick insect in Borneo: variation and natural selection has resulted in insects with the astonishing ability to mimic features in their natural environment.Shutterstock

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (originally published in 1859) shares a deplorable fate with many other classics: it is known to everyone, yet rarely read.

This is...

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Specialists are free to set their fees, but there are ways to ensure patients don't get ripped off

  • Written by: Peter Sivey, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University
Specialists are free to set their fees, but there are ways to ensure patients don't get ripped offSpecialists making their fees publicly available is one way to rein in rogue practices.from shutterstock.com

Monday’s Four Corners program drew attention to the issue of high fees charged by some specialist doctors, causing large out-of-pocket expenses for Australian patients. The program included examples of patients paying out-of-pocket...

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  1. The future is fenced for Australian animals
  2. We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
  3. Labor to put test vote on phasing out live sheep trade
  4. Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics
  5. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case
  6. Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air
  7. Michael McCormack on Barnaby's future, latte sippers and other matters
  8. Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment
  9. getting caught in a romance scam could cost you your life
  10. Accountability is key to building trust in Australia's intelligence community
  11. Australia's fragile grasslands at the Venice Biennale
  12. Coke has promised 'less sugar', but less is still too much
  13. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
  14. The bugs we carry and how our immune system fights them
  15. Universities need to do more to support refugee students
  16. Why blowing the 1.5C global warming goal will leave poor tropical nations sweating most of all
  17. Superannuation is still mired in the same old issues, and no one is going to fix your nest egg but you
  18. It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
  19. Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?
  20. Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne's a world leader
  21. Barnaby Joyce takes personal leave after horror day
  22. Queensland's new land-clearing laws are all stick and no carrot (but it's time to do better)
  23. The BS and the science of nanotechnology
  24. Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desert
  25. Newspoll asks skewed company tax cut question as Labor gains
  26. New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
  27. Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
  28. University funding debates should be broadened to reflect their democratic purpose
  29. Young people, not employers, should choose super fund: Productivity Commission
  30. is it a white thing?
  31. will the universe expand forever, or contract in a big crunch?
  32. how globalisation spreads infectious diseases
  33. The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time
  34. Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations
  35. Research shows networking is painful, but it can be a lot better
  36. How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
  37. Government 'dares' the Senate on its corporate and income tax packages
  38. Hold your horses – brumby fertility control isn't that easy
  39. what is black salve and why do people think it can cure cancer?
  40. Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond
  41. Independent crossbencher Steve Martin joins Nationals, giving the party a Tasmanian presence
  42. The off-topic Conversation #161
  43. The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum
  44. how traditional methods could deliver zero-emission shipping
  45. why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
  46. Why CEOs need to embrace fear
  47. why infectious diseases are so much more harmful to isolated peoples
  48. why reducing the number of subjects isn't the answer
  49. The IOC thinks eSports are too violent for the Olympics, but traditional sports are violent too
  50. Summit on, then off, now on again? The seemingly endless game-playing of US-North Korea relations

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