The talk at the World Economic Forum was about technology killing white and blue collar jobs. What’s to come will be decidedly old-fashioned. Our labour movements should be too.
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Australia needs to be very careful not to allow the bail system to become a political scapegoat at the hands of commentators exercising 20/20 hindsight.
When does a healthy concern about your health tip over into illness anxiety?
Gladys Berejiklian becomes NSW premier with a great deal of experience, but she needs to overcome several problems – internal and external – to arrest sliding polls.
Yellow-gold, swagged curtains have appeared in the Oval Office. But if Donald Trump wants to emulate the Sun King, he would be advised to look to contemporary artists and designers for inspiration.
Australian sport will never have the commercial clout to bring the economy out of recession or solve a regional unemployment problem. But it is more than a fringe player in the economic game.
A model that has the body at the centre and a reductionist view of disease fails to respond to the suffering of the person.
Cells and processes in our body have existed for longer and longer periods of time.
New research has found the youngest children in West Australian primary school classes are twice as likely as their oldest classmates to receive medication for ADHD.
Far from ‘making America great again’, Donald Trump’s sloganeering will deepen mistrust of US motives and irreparably damage any prospect of co-existence, let alone a more co-operative world order.
Gig workers need to be aware of their contract terms and band together in order to maintain their working rights and pay.
From fisheries to forestry, there’s a pattern to collapsing ecosystems and industries. If we can predict them, maybe we can avoid the damage.
From the Blade Runner reboot to Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot to a film about the reincarnated spirit of a dog … here is our list of the movies to look forward to - or not.
The prospect of foreign hackers interfering with democracy is not just an American story. It could happen in Australia too, and we need to guard against it.
The new president’s inaugural speech emphasised protectionism, co-operation and, most emphatically, putting America first.
Australian supermarkets businesses have relied on management talent from the UK but perhaps it’s time to look elsewhere.
Since the 1990s productivity has been slowing in Australia and elsewhere. We aren’t really sure why this is, but here are a couple of theories that could explain it.
Talks among ASEAN leaders are often limited to political and economic issues, pushing problems with deep social and cultural roots like the persecution of ethnic Rohingya to the margins.
A leading website that monitored predatory open access journals has closed. This will make it harder to keep tabs on this corrosive force within science.
The social cost of carbon – which calculates the impact of carbon emissions – plays a key role in US climate policy.
Humans have three basic needs that drive motivation - without them our performance is likely to suffer.
Charities in Australia can be political. They can advocate and lobby to further their charitable purposes. But they can’t be party-political.
On the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the next US president, we take a look back at the Australian reaction on Twitter to his election.
Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have a long history as leaders of their countries and players in the Syrian war.
The idea of clean coal has been around for 40 years, but remains a pipe dream.