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The data show wealth inequality has grown but is lower now than before the GFC. And overall household income inequality has barely shifted since the start of this century.
Converting a DNA sequence into an audio could help us learn something useful about it, like where mutations occur.
A US study into whether a new drug can give us a tan without going into the sun generated headlines around the world. Here’s what the study really says.
Family violence will not always be ‘obvious’ to CCTV. Therefore measures must be put in place to ensure that footage cannot be used against victims should circumstances of violence be challenged.
‘Australian values’ have been mangled into meaninglessness by countless politicians. But there is an national character, shaped by the Australian land. New research investigates Outback values.
While the current speculation in crypto-currency and assets should make us pause, this is not a speculative driven bubble like tulips, or gold mining stocks.
There are plenty of models around the globe where governments are supporting public interest journalism at arm’s length.
While research for a cure for MND is underway, first we need to know what causes it.
Neo Nazi terror, a dark Instagram crush, a layman’s history of the black civil rights movement … here are the best offerings from this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
A number of universities around the world are providing free textbooks to first year university students as a way to increase retention rates.
Why can’t the state fund an ongoing program of upgrading, replacing and building public housing? On the evidence to date, private developers aren’t doing a better job of it.
Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie told Q&A that heatwaves were ‘worsening’ in Australia and ‘hot days’ had doubled in the last 50 years. Let’s take a look at the evidence.
Response from a spokesperson from the Climate Council in relation to an article on CEO Amanda McKenzie’s claims about worsening heatwaves and increasing numbers of hot days in Australia.
The Carmichael coal mine requires a crucial native title agreement to build key infrastructure. But an Indigenous group is bringing legal action against Adani, which may create a fatal roadblock.
Science is supremely beautiful, but can also be brutal and unforgiving if you stray from the well-worn pathways.
Laws against blasphemy privilege the feelings of Christians over other religious people, and have no place in a modern, inclusive society.
Even though the shift towards part-time employment has actually been happening for many years, it now appears to be slowing.
Australian retailers aren’t efficient enough to compete with Amazon on price, and that’s before we factor in Amazon’s other businesses.
Some emergency doctors are already using acupuncture to relieve patients’ pain. Now a new study shows when it works, when it doesn’t and how emergency departments of the future might use it.
Let’s be realistic about what gun amnesties are, and are not, likely to deliver.
A study shows the reality of gig worker experiences is far more nuanced than enjoying flexible work or being exploited.
News Corp on the right, Fairfax on the left. This division has a long history in Australia, to the detriment of quality journalism and public debate.
Wandering the city by foot helps us look beneath ordinary conceptions of the face value of a place to the meanings built up and lost over time.
Many patients with end stage kidney disease would live longer and have a better quality of life with a kidney transplant compared to staying on dialysis.