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Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own

  • Written by: Vincent Mitchell, Professor of Marketing, University of Sydney
Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your ownMany social media users have been shocked to learn the extent of their digital footprint.Shutterstock

In the aftermath of revelations about the alleged misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica, many social media users are educating themselves about their own digital footprint. And some are shocked at the extent of it.

Last week, one user...

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Australia expels two Russian spies as part of international push against Russia

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Australia expels two Russian spies as part of international push against RussiaForeign Minister Julie Bishop said the Russians had to leave within a week "for actions inconsistent with their status".AAP/Joel Carrett

The Australian government is expelling two Russian spies as part of a broad international retaliatory action against the nerve agent attack on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia...

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Climate policy is a fiendish problem for governments – time for an independent authority with real powers

  • Written by: Peter C. Doherty, Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

From global epidemics to global economic markets to the global climate, understanding complex systems calls for solid data and sophisticated maths. My advice to young scientists contemplating a career in research is: “If you’re good at maths, keep it up!”

I’m no mathematician – my research career has focused largely on...

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Why Australians need a national environment protection agency to safeguard their health

  • Written by: David Shearman, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide

Australia needs an independent national agency charged with safeguarding the environment and delivering effective climate policy, according to a new campaign launched today by a coalition of environmental, legal and medical NGOs.

Most Western democracies have established national regulatory action, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency &nda...

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  2. Kids with autism less likely to be fully vaccinated
  3. Darwin's paying the price after Cyclone Marcus
  4. when religious freedom and LGBTI rights intersect
  5. Lisa Reihana's Emissaries is a vital retelling of colonial history
  6. how elite schools are struggling with the pressure to excel
  7. Pensioners would retain cash refunds on franked dividends under Labor backdown
  8. Why China is a leader in intellectual property (and what the US has to do with it)
  9. We're still playing catch up with academia's longstanding #MeToo sexual harassment problem
  10. The day Australian cricket lost its integrity and a country reacted with shock and anger
  11. How birth interventions affect babies' health in the short and long term
  12. Future 'ocean cities' need green engineering above and below the waterline
  13. Full response from a spokesperson for Paul Fletcher for a FactCheck on electricity prices and renewable energy policy
  14. are South Australia's high electricity prices 'the consequence' of renewable energy policy?
  15. Australia should steer clear of the sanction fight between the US and China
  16. satirist Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin
  17. Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin reveals the anxieties of team Putin
  18. why ball tampering is cheating
  19. The off-topic Conversation #157
  20. how some NZ brands are shortchanging domestic customers
  21. Coalition trails 47-53% in 29th consecutive Newspoll loss
  22. Should lab-grown meat be labelled as meat when it's available for sale?
  23. You're paying too much for electricity, but here's what the states can do about it
  24. Sexual harassment is too much – and not enough – about sex
  25. Is it true that male seahorses give birth?
  26. Low attendance in Year 7 may mean you're less likely to finish school
  27. Your asthma puffer is probably contributing to climate change, but there's a better alternative
  28. Is it a surprise women aren't keen on investing when the stock market language is so male oriented?
  29. what are authorities so afraid of?
  30. Vikings exhibit hangs up the sword, and gives us a welcome insight into domestic life
  31. Some 'bloody' rocket science gives Pacific Rim Uprising an extra lift
  32. Michelle Grattan on musical chairs in the Senate
  33. Not getting a social licence to operate can be a costly mistake, as coal seam gas firms have found
  34. My Favourite Album: Dead Letter Circus’s Aesthesis
  35. Post-truth politics and why the antidote isn't simply 'fact-checking' and truth
  36. Google and Facebook cosy up to media companies in response to the threat of regulation
  37. Native forest protections are deeply flawed, yet may be in place for another 20 years
  38. The way banks are organised makes it hard to hold directors and executives criminally responsible
  39. why our complexion is so important to us
  40. How lowering the voting age to 16 could save democracy
  41. if you really, truly need a new phone, buy one with replaceable parts
  42. New Queensland planning law puts transparency and accountability at risk
  43. Are the major parties on the nose and minors on the march? It's not that simple
  44. Email culture to blame for workplace failure on #MeToo
  45. My dyslexic perspective on academia – and how I found science communication
  46. why early childhood educators are walking out
  47. what happens to our skin as we age?
  48. can art really make a difference?
  49. New players in "Bradbury" Senate a gift to government's company tax cut prospects
  50. We need to talk about the data we give freely of ourselves online and why it's useful

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