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Government's misjudgement on banking royal commission comes back to bite it

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Government's misjudgement on banking royal commission comes back to bite itIn light of what is coming out the government should be ashamed of its past performance.Flickr, CC BY-SA

If you are a politician, what do you do when your bad judgement – or worse – has been dramatically called out for all to see?

That’s the question which has faced the government as appalling behaviour by the Commonwealth Bank,...

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Heavy penalties are on the table for banks caught lying and taking fees for no service

  • Written by: Dimity Kingsford Smith, Professor and Director, Centre for Law Markets and Regulation, UNSW Law, UNSW

Another week of hearings of the Financial Services Royal Commission has seen financial services company AMP admitting it mislead the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) on 20 occasions. The commission also saw evidence of both AMP and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia paying themselves client money when there was no adviser...

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Why you should talk to your children about Cambridge Analytica

  • Written by: Amanda Third, Principal Research Fellow - Digital, Social and Cultural Research, Western Sydney University
Why you should talk to your children about Cambridge AnalyticaIt's never too early – or too late – to start talking to your children about how to protect their data from people who might misuse it.Shutterstock

Former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie blew the whistle last month. He revealed the data analytics agency harvested Facebook data from more than 50 million individual...

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easy solutions to a hard problem

  • Written by: Ian A. MacKenzie, Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
easy solutions to a hard problemThe amount of landfill in Australia is expected to rise since China is no longer buying our recycling waste. But there are easy solutions to this big problem.Nicolás Boullosa/flickr, CC BY

Ipswich residents have been told their recycling waste will now be dumped into landfill because it is too expensive for the local council to recycle.

This...

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  5. Tech giants are battling it out to supply the global internet
  6. Israel Folau's comments remind us homophobia and transphobia are ever present in Australian sport
  7. A closer look at business cases raises questions about 'priority' national infrastructure projects
  8. Part of what Australians think is good leadership, might just be Anglo traits
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  11. How the 2016 bleaching altered the shape of the northern Great Barrier Reef
  12. Ban Middle East sheep trade, says Liberal MP Jason Wood
  13. Lowering the HELP repayment threshold is an easy target, but not the one we should aim for
  14. The shipping sector is finally on board in the fight against climate change
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  16. As Wentworth slips quietly onto the ABC, the series still asks tough questions about gender politics
  17. what's new about the 2018 flu vaccines, and who should get one?
  18. How fake assistance animals and their users are gaming the system and increasing prejudices
  19. Will Rio Tinto’s bid to escape from its contracts with Rusal succeed?
  20. Sharp claws helped ancient seals conquer the oceans
  21. Australia’s slow march towards a National Energy Guarantee is gathering pace
  22. From 'opening the kimono' to 'incentivizing', the war against corporate buzzwords rages on
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  24. how urban planning has failed women
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  41. Germany’s (not so) grand coalition may cause ripple effects on European refugee policy
  42. To value companies like Amazon and Facebook, we need to look beyond dollars and assets
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