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The banking royal commission’s most enduring legacy might be the cancer of too much caution throughout the financial services sector.
New figures show we are spending less on health than we used to but it mightn’t last, and surgeons and dentists are charging more.
The ABC chairman’s resignation provides some resolution to the crisis, but a discussion is sorely needed about other threats to the broadcaster’s independence.
There is no need to wait for royal commission recommendations to act on aged care. We can implement a national strategy to improve the sector’s workforce in the next year three years.
The news that a former moderator is suing Facebook over unsafe work practices suggests it’s time we finally took the mental health of moderators seriously.
Legs On The Wall’s production deals with the important but taboo topic of youth suicide, particularly in the Indigenous community.
You might be thin on the outside, but if you have a poor diet and are physically inactive, you can have the same health risks as someone who is obese.
Degrees with a strong visual arts foundation will ensure individuals will flourish, not flounder, when faced with disruptive technologies.
It’s not easy being a ref. Everyone’s your critic, and you have to run more than 8km each match to keep up with the play.
The ABC Act clearly states the board is duty-bound to ‘maintain the independence and integrity’ of the broadcaster. Milne’s actions appear to have compromised both values.
Flaws in the ABC Act set up conflict and allow the government to pressure it.
An alternative holiday for Indigenous people doesn’t address the arguments against celebrating nationhood on a day that causes offence to some citizens.
Like epic poets, AFL commentators improvise in short phrases, not sentences, because it creates vivid images of fast action.
Senator Pauline Hanson raised concerns about immigration and social cohesion, saying ‘more than a million people’ in Australia ‘cannot speak English well or at all’. Let’s look at the numbers.
FactCheck requested sources and comment from Senator Pauline Hanson to support her statement about the number of people in Australia who can’t speak English “well or at all”.
Proposed changes to NSW rental tenancy law are an improvement, but do not end the excessive rent increases and “no grounds” evictions that put renters – and older women in particular – at risk.
Australian wildlife can generally cope with drought, but they’re not prepared for the combination of people, introduced animals, and no water.
History shows the targets of product tampering bounce back, often with sales stronger than before.
Astronomers found something not predicted by current theory when they took a closer look at the emissions from a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field.
Brendan O'Connor on Labor’s industrial relations agenda
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O'Connor says Labor remains totally opposed to the government's Ensuring Integrity legislation, which the Coalition wants to resurrect. "I can't see this bill in any way being salvageable."
It is a furphy that regulation for good corporate culture is impossible. It is done in the Netherlands and it is already under way in Australia, albeit in an unacknowledged, and limited, form.
Ford works toward dismantling the idea that feminism is harming men. Instead, she proposes that a patriarchal society can be as harmful and destructive for individual men as it can be for women.
One of the most controversial recommendations from the Royal Commission is that child abuse disclosed in confession should be mandatorily reported. But the matter is more complex than it might appear.
Research shows that more than half of patients in intensive care don’t get enough nutrition.