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The backlash against the Census suggests the Australian Bureau of Statistics didn’t do enough to convince Australians it needed to collect their private information or that it’d be kept safe.
Rarely do we see such unscripted individual honesty on difficult topics such as doping, right in the middle of arguably the biggest international sporting stage.
New technologies do not exist in a vacuum. To succeed, new transport technology needs to match the ways we want to move around cities and be accommodated by laws and regulations.
Credit rating agencies have a poor track record when it comes to evaluating risk.
The Australian census is just one way to gather data on people. We also freely give out information in other ways that can be used to study many things, and maybe even predict an election result.
The arrest on terrorism charges of a white ‘nationalist extremist’ from an avowedly right-wing organisation should alert Australians to the dangers of violence from that direction.
The gold medal-winning Australian women’s rugby Sevens team is a shining example of talent transfer from other sports.
Australia has become collectively richer but much more unequal in recent decades.
As customers gain more control of their media environment, advertisers have to go to greater lengths to get their brand name seen, known and remembered.
Doping simply gives athletes an advantage that can be compared to other forms of training regimes. So why the moral outrage?
If you care for or know someone with dementia, they’ve probably asked you “what are we doing today?” “who are you?” or “when are we going home?”
Moves to tighten land-clearing laws in Queensland and New South Wales have been met with outrage from farmers. So how can we get regulation right?
In 1967, as flower children across America marched against the Vietnam war, Diane Arbus chose to photograph a young man wearing a ‘Bomb Hanoi’ badge. What did she capture, about the boy and the time?
Physicists have theorised about the existence of a magnetic monopole for decades, but we have yet to find one.
In highlighting the importance of retaining section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus said racial discrimination can make people sick.
With so many cough mixtures on the pharmacy shelves, it can be hard to know which product to choose. Are they effective?
Section 18C is limited in scope, and it would thus be wrong to claim that free speech carte blanche is under threat.
Census data have a real impact on the lives of Australians, from determining political representation through the distribution of electorates, to the allocation of government funding.
Is the Coalition right to say that, at any one time, there is around $3.5 billion of debt to the Commonwealth due to fraud, non-compliance or misreporting in the welfare system?
An optimistic, resilient worker is what every manager wants. Can it be taught?
India stands to economically benefit from the introduction of a Goods and Services Tax. Australia could also cash in.
Staring at one thing for a long time can cause you to see the next thing in the opposite fashion. This neural adaptation could be the underlying physiological basis of body-size misperception.
The returned Turnbull government can now add arguably one of the most diverse and potentially volatile senates ever to be elected in Australia to its list of political problems.
Dingoes are being used to kill feral goats in Queensland, but is this just another form of cruelty?