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the world economy can benefit from a vindicated Trump

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a regular economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: China’s growth continues to slow, US inflation remains stubbornly low, Australian interest...

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Precarious employment is rising rapidly among men: new research

  • Written by: Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University

Precarious employment is increasing over time, and it still remains higher for women than men in Australia. But over the last nine years it has increased far more rapidly among men.

This is despite greater workforce participation and lower unemployment rates in Australia’s labour market. The quality of jobs in Australia has been declining.

In...

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On Friday the 13th, leave the superstitions at home

  • Written by: Kylie Sturgess, Tutor and Researcher Radio Broadcasting, Murdoch University
On Friday the 13th, leave the superstitions at homeShutterstock.com

Of all the days to stay in bed, Friday the 13th is surely the best. It’s the title of a popular (if increasingly corny) horror movie series; it’s associated with bad luck and it’s generally thought to be a good time not to take any serious risks.

Even if you try to escape it, you might fail, as happened to New...

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the story of Fook Shing, colonial Victoria's Chinese detective

  • Written by: Benjamin Wilson Mountford, David Myers Research Fellow in History, La Trobe University
the story of Fook Shing, colonial Victoria's Chinese detectiveA depiction of Fook Shing in Melbourne Illustrated, November 13 1880.State Library of Victoria

On July 25 1882, Inspector Frederick Secretan, the head of Victoria Police’s Detective Branch, shifted uncomfortably in his seat. In the wake of the Kelly Gang fiasco, during which Ned’s infamous band of outlaws had managed to elude the police...

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  1. do I have to drink eight glasses of water per day?
  2. Looking past the Gold Coast the world sees today
  3. Why the Australian Christian right has weak political appeal
  4. New electoral law could still hobble charities
  5. What Wikipedia can teach us about blockchain technology
  6. Live sheep exports tarnish Australia's reputation and should be stopped
  7. Alexis Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, an epic feat of Aboriginal storytelling
  8. So your birth didn't go according to plan? Don't blame yourself
  9. Four years after the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine: key gains and losses
  10. What goes into breaking records at the Commonwealth Games
  11. A sperm race to help save one of New Zealand’s threatened birds, the sugar-lapping hihi
  12. Are Australians ready to embrace libertarianism?
  13. Would regulation cement Facebook's market power? It's unlikely
  14. Ocean heat waves and weaker winds will keep Australia warm for a while yet
  15. like a broken record, high temperatures further stress our ecosystems
  16. Chill out. A slightly warmer office won't make it too hot to think
  17. Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, but who made them remains a mystery
  18. Response to rumours of a Chinese military base in Vanuatu speak volumes about Australian foreign policy
  19. How Beethoven's 'mistake' became one of our most famous tunes
  20. Captured! Radio telescope records a rare 'glitch' in a pulsar's regular pulsing beat
  21. The science of elite long distance running
  22. Why teachers are turning to Twitter
  23. is it true pasta doesn't make you gain weight, and could even help you lose it?
  24. Voices of residents missing in a time of crisis for public housing
  25. Keytruda may be a miracle cancer drug, but can those who need it afford it?
  26. punk's not dead, just patching itself up
  27. Commonwealth Games injuries highlight a problematic culture in elite sports
  28. ASEAN-Australia special summit has much work to do on women's role in peace and security
  29. Location and voice technology are the future of retail
  30. Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook apology is the linguistic equivalent of 'shit happens'
  31. Tony Abbott and the revenge of the ‘delcons’
  32. Newspoll not all bad news for Turnbull as Coalition's position improves
  33. your guide to the 2018 Stella shortlist
  34. Materials that make heat worse for our kids demand a rethink by designers
  35. Australia's history of live exports is more than two centuries old
  36. That contract your computer made could get you in a legal bind
  37. Do athletes really need protein supplements?
  38. How does glow in the dark paint work?
  39. how asteroids made an impact on Australia
  40. When it comes to China's influence on Australia, beware of sweeping statements and conflated ideas
  41. Should the Commonwealth Games come with a health warning?
  42. Autism advocacy and research misses the mark if autistic people are left out
  43. Science vagabonde, un voyage autour des sciences
  44. What is hepatitis A and how can you get it from eating frozen fruit?
  45. Shorten's plan to triple anti-dumping penalties misunderstands the law
  46. The many ways Australia isn't as pro-trade as we claim
  47. Why does some tap water taste weird?
  48. In The Magpie, Monet found all the colour in a snowy day
  49. Political interventions have undermined the parole system's effectiveness and independence
  50. Banning MPs from private messaging apps is a simplistic response to a complex problem

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