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Why we can't just throw more regulation at the ethical issues raised by the banking royal commission

  • Written by: Anthony Asher, Associate Professor, UNSW

The Financial Services Royal Commission hearings are illustrating both the weaknesses of human nature and of the culture and structure of the financial sector – regulated and regulator. The response to this has been more regulation and codes of conduct.

But we should also be considering our own ethics.


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Council wants 'English first' policy on shop signs – what does it mean for multicultural Australia?

  • Written by: Alice Chik, Senior Lecturer in Literacy, Macquarie University
Council wants 'English first' policy on shop signs – what does it mean for multicultural Australia?Bilingual and trilingual shop signs are a feature of Strathfield.Alice Chik, Author provided

An inner-Sydney council proposal to regulate the language of shop signs has significant implications for multicultural policy. Strathfield City Council recently voted for a motion that states:

All signage is to be displayed in the English language, with a...

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Spotify removing R. Kelly's songs is a sign of a worrying trend towards censorship

  • Written by: Scott Davie, Piano tutor and Lecturer, Sydney Conservatorium Music, University of Sydney
Spotify removing R. Kelly's songs is a sign of a worrying trend towards censorshipR. Kelly at the American Music Awards in 2013. PAUL BUCK

Music streaming service Spotify recently removed the music of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from its playlists as part of its new policy on hateful content and conduct. Subsequently, Apple Music has also ceased promotion of R. Kelly in featured playlists. While the music of both black American...

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election promises and real-life tests

  • Written by: Grant Duncan, Associate Professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
election promises and real-life testsFinance minister Grant Robertson is set to deliver his first budget.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

Global media have shown a great deal of interest in New Zealand’s third woman prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and they eagerly anticipate the imminent arrival of her baby. Less attention has been paid to New Zealand’s first openly gay...

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  1. 'I would like to know why man lions have manes and lady lions don't'
  2. Labor would deliver bigger surpluses than the Coalition: Bowen
  3. Kelly O'Dwyer seeks to turn one Liberal woman's loss into gains for others
  4. How an Australian scientist tried to stop the US plan to monopolise the nuclear arms race
  5. As the details emerge on Australia's new space agency, we (might) finally have lift-off
  6. Labor has equal best Newspoll budget result, gains in Ipsos, but trails in Longman
  7. To get conservative climate contrarians to really listen, try speaking their language
  8. women need to know about the link between the pill and depression
  9. The ethics of 'securitising' Australian cyberspace
  10. How the Bible helped shape Australian culture
  11. Australia's shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues
  12. Five things we wouldn't know without NAPLAN
  13. What it's like to be a 'black economy' worker
  14. There is extra funding for aged care in the budget, but not enough to meet demand
  15. Polish Resistance fighter, 'Slavic space age' modernist, legendary Australian artist
  16. Why Iceland is set to resume whaling despite international opposition
  17. Why rural Australia is facing a volunteer crisis
  18. A history of the marsupial lion
  19. Small sats are vital to Australia's space industry – and they won't be space junk
  20. If we can't recycle it, why not turn our waste plastic into fuel?
  21. Going Down finds hilarious satire in migrant identity
  22. How information warfare in cyberspace threatens our freedom
  23. 94% of Australians do not read all privacy policies that apply to them – and that’s rational behaviour
  24. what should I eat to improve my skin?
  25. Competing foreign interests trump Syrian aspirations for political change
  26. could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?
  27. will the banking royal commission push down property prices?
  28. a short history of the contraceptive pill
  29. No, women don't need to 'take a break' from the pill every couple of years
  30. Can anyone learn to sing? For most of us, the answer is yes
  31. Is that selfie really worth it? Why face time with wild animals is a bad idea
  32. Mixed messages in post-budget Newspoll and Fairfax-Ipsos
  33. Let's get moving with the affordable medium-speed alternatives to the old dream of high-speed rail
  34. We asked people if they would trust driverless cars
  35. use technology to make the tests more authentic and relevant
  36. Changes to superannuation insurance won't jack up rates – but if anything they don't go far enough
  37. The secret agents protecting our crops and gardens
  38. Archibald winner Yvette Coppersmith channels her inner Jacinda Ardern in an intelligent, classical work
  39. A giant 'singing' cloud in space will help us to understand how star systems form
  40. Why the internet alone can't be blamed for radicalisation
  41. Criminals can't easily edit their DNA out of forensic databases
  42. what is burnout and what can we do about it?
  43. Michelle Grattan on the 2018 budget, tax cuts and the citizenship crisis
  44. Malaysians celebrate the return of Mahathir and hope for a brighter future
  45. For Timor-Leste, another election and hopes for an end to crippling deadlock
  46. Shorten gives Turnbull a character-forming task on tax
  47. how inflation in China and the US could affect Australia
  48. Who are the wealthy retirees targeted in Labor's plans?
  49. Here's why flu vaccinations should be mandatory for Aussie health workers in high-risk areas
  50. Here's how a complex low-pressure system sent temperatures plummeting

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