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What Wikipedia can teach us about blockchain technology

  • Written by: Dirk Baur, Professor of Finance, University of Western Australia
What Wikipedia can teach us about blockchain technologyWikipedia depends on the collaborative effort of volunteer writers to add information, bypassing trusted authorities. Shutterstock

Almost a decade after the introduction of Bitcoin, there is a lot of hype about the blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are based. Some claim the technology will revolutionise commerce;...

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Live sheep exports tarnish Australia's reputation and should be stopped

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Live sheep exports tarnish Australia's reputation and should be stoppedAustralia's sheep trade is worth $250 million annually and involves about two million sheep.Steven Walling/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

If a farmer were caught subjecting animals on his or her property to the suffering endured by the sheep on the Emanuel Exports ship last August, they’d find themselves in court, perhaps in jail, and almost certainly...

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Alexis Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, an epic feat of Aboriginal storytelling

  • Written by: Ben Etherington, Senior Research Lectureship-literature, Western Sydney University
Alexis Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, an epic feat of Aboriginal storytellingAlexis Wright, author of Tracker: a book written in the mode and genre of Aboriginal storytelling.Stella Prize

Alexis Wright’s book Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth has won the 2018 Stella Prize. Tracker is, in Wright’s words, an attempt to tell an “impossible story”, using the voices of many people to reflect on the...

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So your birth didn't go according to plan? Don't blame yourself

  • Written by: Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
So your birth didn't go according to plan? Don't blame yourselfOne in four Australian mothers had a negative birth experience.By LittleDogKorat/Shutterstock

While childbirth is often a joyful event, it rarely unfolds exactly how we think it will. This causes disappointment or distress among some women, and leaves a small proportion with a diagnosis of postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PPTSD).

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  1. Four years after the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine: key gains and losses
  2. What goes into breaking records at the Commonwealth Games
  3. A sperm race to help save one of New Zealand’s threatened birds, the sugar-lapping hihi
  4. Are Australians ready to embrace libertarianism?
  5. Would regulation cement Facebook's market power? It's unlikely
  6. Ocean heat waves and weaker winds will keep Australia warm for a while yet
  7. like a broken record, high temperatures further stress our ecosystems
  8. Chill out. A slightly warmer office won't make it too hot to think
  9. Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, but who made them remains a mystery
  10. Response to rumours of a Chinese military base in Vanuatu speak volumes about Australian foreign policy
  11. How Beethoven's 'mistake' became one of our most famous tunes
  12. Captured! Radio telescope records a rare 'glitch' in a pulsar's regular pulsing beat
  13. The science of elite long distance running
  14. Why teachers are turning to Twitter
  15. is it true pasta doesn't make you gain weight, and could even help you lose it?
  16. Voices of residents missing in a time of crisis for public housing
  17. Keytruda may be a miracle cancer drug, but can those who need it afford it?
  18. punk's not dead, just patching itself up
  19. Commonwealth Games injuries highlight a problematic culture in elite sports
  20. ASEAN-Australia special summit has much work to do on women's role in peace and security
  21. Location and voice technology are the future of retail
  22. Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook apology is the linguistic equivalent of 'shit happens'
  23. Tony Abbott and the revenge of the ‘delcons’
  24. Newspoll not all bad news for Turnbull as Coalition's position improves
  25. your guide to the 2018 Stella shortlist
  26. Materials that make heat worse for our kids demand a rethink by designers
  27. Australia's history of live exports is more than two centuries old
  28. That contract your computer made could get you in a legal bind
  29. Do athletes really need protein supplements?
  30. How does glow in the dark paint work?
  31. how asteroids made an impact on Australia
  32. When it comes to China's influence on Australia, beware of sweeping statements and conflated ideas
  33. Should the Commonwealth Games come with a health warning?
  34. Autism advocacy and research misses the mark if autistic people are left out
  35. Science vagabonde, un voyage autour des sciences
  36. What is hepatitis A and how can you get it from eating frozen fruit?
  37. Shorten's plan to triple anti-dumping penalties misunderstands the law
  38. The many ways Australia isn't as pro-trade as we claim
  39. Why does some tap water taste weird?
  40. In The Magpie, Monet found all the colour in a snowy day
  41. Political interventions have undermined the parole system's effectiveness and independence
  42. Banning MPs from private messaging apps is a simplistic response to a complex problem
  43. Can the Liberal Party hold its 'broad church' of liberals and conservatives together?
  44. A brief history of fake doctors, and how they get away with it
  45. South Australia's trial of England's year one phonics check shows why we need it
  46. Our survey found 'questionable research practices' by ecologists and biologists – here's what that means
  47. Commonwealth Games have better integrated para-sports, but society needs to catch up
  48. England expects 40% of new housing developments will be affordable, why can't Australia?
  49. Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq's national museum
  50. A new wave of rock removal could spell disaster for farmland wildlife

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