Treasury has put forward proposals with huge gaps and that put the onus on the issuers of financial products.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
University of Sydney
Established in 1850, the University of Sydney was Australia’s first tertiary education institution. It is committed to maximising the potential of its students, teachers and researchers for the benefit of Australia and the wider world.
Links
Displaying 2501 - 2520 of 4750 articles
Images of attractive celebrities, friends and acquaintances on social media affect women’s body image and mood, new research shows. But what can we do about it?
Leaving school early more than doubles your risk of heart attack, according to a new Australian study.
Recent Queensland reforms – due to take effect in March 2017 – do not include legislative safeguards for a certain group of people with mental illness.
Why are some people more comfortable than others with making risky financial decisions?
Was shadow minister for communications Michelle Rowland right when she said Australia’s level of media ownership concentration is one of the highest in the world?
Harness Racing Australia has announced it will ban the use of the whip. The decision is a world first for any horse sporting body, so what about the rest of the horse racing industry?
For the first ever case a corporation was fined for insider trading. But we should consider stiffer penalties to protect markets.
In a climate of widespread discontent with Italy’s political establishment, a new election might wipe out most of the parties in the current government coalition.
NSW is about to embark on the largest and most definitive clinical trial ever of medicinal cannabis for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
We like to think that our political views are well reasoned and backed by evidence. But research shows how easily we all succumb to cognitive biases to justify our own deeply held views.
Worst year for mosquitoes ever? How do scientists catch and count mosquitoes to work out why mosquito populations fluctuate from year to year? Can we predict outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease?
To understand whether the referendum will plunge Italy into a crisis, we need to unpack the problem in its three essential components: the reform; the Renzi’s factor; and the country’s economy.
There’s a widespread belief that actually existing democracies are in the grip of a fast-paced world dominated by breaking news and all things instant. The following contribution sets out to question this…
This brilliant production of Handel’s Theodora, written in 1750, has great contemporary resonance.
Many fork out considerable money in pharmaceuticals along the way in the attempt to shake their smoking.
After 1992, the transformation of the Italian left was slow and subtle, but by no means less detrimental to the quality of the country’s democratic system.
We seem prepared to share our opinions on almost any subject today thanks to social media and other mass communication. But who is really listening?
There are still a few real-world tests the Diverted Profits Tax or “Google Tax” will have to face before the government can claim it’s among the toughest in the world.
A group of experts dissect what the re-introduction of the ABCC means for the construction industry and its workers.
Authors
-
Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
-
Lecturer, Sustainable Mobility, University of Sydney
-
Professor of History, University of Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
-
Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Sustainable Future Transport, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor and Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
-
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Sydney
-
Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
-
Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
-
Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
-
Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
