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Workers are getting ABNs and being employed as contractors responsible for their own tax payments. This is undercutting conditions and eroding the most important part of the nation’s tax base.
A vaccine recommendation from a health professional and convenient access will make the biggest difference to uptake.
We’re not sure if the cure, the populist outsider, will work and make life better. but we are willing to experiment as the old certainties of representative politics wither.
The speed of light is of great advantage when sending data over the internet, but it is a real challenge to master on a small chip. A new design offers a solution: convert the energy to sound.
Here’s how reporting of the world’s first specific advice on reducing inactivity at work has overplayed the role of standing desks.
Rebel Wilson’s large damages award for defamation is a salutary lesson that defaming a celebrity with an international profile can lead to a substantial payout for the economic harm done.
The last-minute bargaining on media reforms are a minimalistic band-aid response that will do nothing to prevent further concentration of Australia’s media landscape.
Data shows that the gender wage gap can be partially explained by how different skills and psychological traits are treated in the labour market.
The first reliable measure of the 3D shape of galaxies and their rotation helps to shed light on their history.
Austraila’s minimum wages now operate in relative isolation. Until the 1990s they were part of an inter-connected system.
The evidence suggests a small investment in cycling infrastructure, combined with less punitive policing, would enable more Australians to escape daily traffic congestion.
Residents of two high-rise public housing blocks are being given ‘mood lights’ to express how they feel based on their experience of the process of redeveloping their neighbourhood.
One bank customer whose identity was stolen asks: ‘Why didn’t they call the fraud squad, or the police?’ It’s a very good question.
The sentiment of business leaders has remained positive and improved over the past 12 months according to our analysis.
It would take a lifestyle upheaval to drop most Australians’ household emissions to a sustainable level. Even many of us who urge equitable action on climate change act as if this doesn’t apply to us.
Calls to routinely offer breast cancer screening to more women might sound like a good idea, but can harm. Here are three questions to ask when figuring out whether more screening really is better.
Why does Australia, a nation of pet lovers, not allow pets on public transport or guarantee tenants the right to keep a pet?
A year before his death at 31 Franz Schubert published ‘Winterreise’ or ‘winter’s journey’, a series of 24 poems set to music exploring unrequited love. Schubert described them as ‘truly terrible’.
The APRA inquiry puts the regulator in the tricky position of trying to be seen to be tough on bank scandals but juggling its close relationship with the government and the CBA.
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Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor in History, University of Sydney
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ARC DECRA Fellow in Hydrology, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in European Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Officer Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, Linguistics and Ethnobiology, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Research Assistant, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
