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The hospitality and tourism sector is struggling to find a good supply of lower-paid workers in the CBD, because that is also where they face either high housing or travel costs.
The concept of living heritage can help us make decisions that go beyond preserving historical facades to protect and add to, rather than freeze, the stories and layers of the past.
Legislating an ‘objective’ for super could have many unintended consequences.
Bleaching has hit a huge swathe of the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals in the reef’s remote northern reaches now expected to die as a result of warm waters linked to this summer’s El Niño.
The view of many doctors that “I don’t let myself be influenced” might be the biggest barrier to change.
Just because they can’t prescribe medications that does not mean nurses have no influence on important decisions for patient care.
The rise of women to very powerful positions has not, to date, opened the way for other women. So there is no reason to believe a Hillary Clinton presidency would change that.
Legislating a definition of super overlooks the real motivators behind people saving for retirement.
The Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence put the pressure on banks to respond to economic abuse. Now the banks are taking the first steps.
Aboriginal people have been using the stars to help remember routes between distant locations, and these routes are still alive in our highway networks today.
Senators will return to Canberra later this month with the expectation that they will give final consideration to the government's industrial relations legislation.
The granting of a mining lease to the Carmichael coal project, despite the huge potential greenhouse emissions, shows that ministers need to consider the wider consequences of their approvals.
Ecstasy is the street name for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, an illicit party drug that speeds up messages to and from the brain and alters the user’s perception of reality.
Huntsman spiders deserve a place alongside koalas and kangaroos as iconic Australian wildlife.
Unlike most other types of drugs, the dose a chemotherapy patient is given isn’t fixed. Instead it’s individually selected based on height, weight and underlying health.
If local councils are bigger and councillors represent more residents, it is important that they focus on understanding their communities’ needs and aspirations, rather than on day-to-day operations.
Academic experts respond to the latest report by the Parliamentary Budget Office on the impact of student loans on the budget.
Spoiler warning for the season six finale of The Walking Dead. We talk point-of-view shots and the visual language of empathy.
Proponents of tax havens would argue tax evasion may not be moral, but isn’t criminal. History suggests this is a slippery slope.
If planning decisions properly considered the value of trees in a city, we could have a modern transport system and tree-lined views to enhance the journey.
By linking censuses through time or by combining other information with the census, many more important policy questions can be answered than if we used one dataset alone.
Online retail customers demand support from every party involved in the product supply chain, but few are keeping up.
PIN codes, passwords, swipe patterns and biometrics can help secure your smartphone, but they’re far from foolproof.
The new TV show You’re Back in the Room would have us believe a powerful hypnotist can make us do whatever he says. This is inconsistent with over 200 years of evidence from the science of hypnosis.