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Research regularly shows when people try to do two things at once, they tend to do both tasks more poorly than if they’d only attempted one at a time.
The NERC is not the first organisation to come unstuck by asking for public input.
Special purpose liquidators are appointed by courts to pursue specific tasks in liquidation, in the case of Queensland Nickel, this will mean investigating Clive Palmer’s dealings.
The Productivity Commission’s inquiry into access and use of public and private data risks failing to achieve anything meaningful.
The future of warfare may include many lethal autonomous weapons, but the world can’t decide how, or if, to regulate them.
In the humanitarian aid and development sector, local staff are paid less and receive fewer benefits than their expatriate colleagues, even when they do similar work and have similar qualifications.
After Labor proposed a royal commission into the banking industry, Treasurer Scott Morrison said the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has all the powers of a royal commission and more. Is that right?
Liberal Party backbencher Sharman Stone told the Q&A audience that Australia has some of the highest rates per capita of fetal alcohol syndrome in the world. We check the research.
Workplace democracy is declining, but the idea that this is the fault solely of unions or employers is misguided. Widespread reform is needed.
American firms were warned about global warming way back in 1968. And Australia wasn’t far behind, despite the slow pace of action in the decades since.
Nature is dispersed through our cities, even if we don’t notice it. And there’s abundant evidence that engaging with nature, even in urban settings, is good for us.
There’s been plenty of commentary about Novak Djokovic’s recent remarks on women’s bodies and the pay gap in sport. He’s right that men and women are different – but female athletes are working a lot harder.
Overall rates of vaccine objection have remained largely unchanged since 2001.
Turnbull’s budget conundrum: promise too much and fail to deliver, or do too little and cruel his electoral chances.
The federal government has argued consistently that more money does not lead to better educational outcomes. But is that right?
Space mining could generate a massive resources boom. Here’s a way to make sure the benefits of that boom reach everyone on the planet.
To what extent would the ABCC and Registered Organisations bills actually deal with union corruption or criminality if passed?
A new study confirms that 97% of publishing climate scientists believe humans are causing global warming.
If the federal government abolishes the Road Safety Renumeration Tribunal, a minimum pay to improve the safety of truckers is less likely to ever be addressed.
University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Education Nick Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss how it all went wrong for Clive Palmer.
Thousands of people with mental illness are shackled in Indonesia even though the practice has long been banned. Why does the practice persist and how can we eliminate it once and for all?
Bird feathers can tell us a lot about their owners and the places they visit.
Opponents of democracy often raise the spectre of social disorder. Over the long term, it is only democracy and the rule of law that will provide for the long-lasting peaceful rule of the nation.
Resistance to a commonly used antimalarial medication, Atovaquone, can’t spread to the general human population, a new research found.