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Woolworths’ new loyalty program is following the international trend away from old-fashioned points-based systems.
What makes Ai Wei Wei so powerful? Critics say if he didn’t exist, he’d need to be invented: an artist who’s combined his life and art into a politically charged performance that helps define how we see modern China.
The scientific community reacts to the news that Dr Alan Finkel has been appointed Australia’s New Chief Scientist as of 2016.
Current climate pledges will see the world warm more than 2C. To avoid dangerous climate change countries will need to at least double their efforts.
See what it takes to limit global warming to 2C.
New research shows shared music-making with toddlers may have benefits above and beyond those of reading.
Banks might be pushing rates up, but the Reserve Bank’s focus should be on who they’re lending to.
Against the odds, a growing group of refugees have managed to succeed in business.
Might the lessons of Australia’s super-efficient welfare system offer a potential way forward for the development of a basic income – a universal, low but adequate payment?
Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
A PhD and startup have more in common than you might think, and they complement each other in many ways. Nicky Ringland shares her experience of how one influenced the other.
Ebola’s clever trick – to lie dormant inside a cell or to hide in a particular organ – is not unfamiliar. Lots of viruses do it. HIV is the master of such a trick.
There are more than 45,000 species of spider, but only a handful are potentially dangerous to humans.
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has cancelled events discussing the 1965 Indonesian massacres, after police threatened to revoke the festival permit.
Labor’s sharing economy guidelines should help make for a more nuanced debate about the collaborative economy.
Climate change isn’t gender-neutral. The effects are likely to hit the world’s poorest women hardest of all, because they are more likely to lack the resources to escape natural disasters or disease.
Google has won again in its efforts to create a searchable digital library of books. But many author groups still believe the project infringes their copyright.
Melbourne’s farms currently supply over 40% of the city’s food. But a growing population and urban sprawl mean by 2050 they’ll supply half as much.
The US and China may have competing ambitions for the Asia-Pacific in the shape of the TPP and AIIB, but they may not be as incompatible as we have first believed.
Germaine Greer’s comments that “post-operative transgender men are not women” have provoked outcry from transgender activists. So let’s have a meaningful discussion about gender, sex and the complex relationship between the two.
New analysis of public data highlights flaws in the education system that is leaving disadvantaged students in the most vulnerable positions.
Governments that want to get people ‘off welfare and into work’ should consider offering them the same employment support granted to other unemployed people.
The Japanese Olympic Committee recently announced five new sports for possible inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics: baseball/softball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.
Australia’s risks losing its valuable native plants that could help solve a global food problem. So do we need new laws to stop the seeds being taken overseas?