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Our study showed that the majority of employees chose to continue attending work despite suffering repeated abuse at work.
The internet has revolutionised communication, but voice calls are declining in some demographics. And that means we may be losing out on a powerful part of what connects us to each other.
The benefits of university are clear and measurable, but we can do more with constructive reform.
An affair is generally a sign things aren’t right with someone’s relationship. It occurs when one person sees an alternative relationship as a better way to meet their needs than their existing one.
The Vatican is training priests to recognise and deal with the demonically possessed. This re-emergence of the Devil in popular Western culture is part of a new engagement with an enchanted world.
Pokies, housing, hospitals and gun laws might have been the specific issues that dominated the campaign, but the decisive factor was Tasmanians’ enduring apprehension about minority government.
The Liberals went from a losing position in Tasmanian polls months ago to a comfortable victory on election day.
China supplies just 2% of America’s steel, while Canada and Europe have sizeable shares and Australian steel producers depend on access to US markets.
The growing list of alcohol-related diseases includes bowel cancers, mouth and oesophageal cancers, breast cancers, heart disease, respiratory infections and mental health problems.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
The bizarre heatwave in the Arctic this week – with temperatures dozens of degrees above normal – is part of a growing trend of “warm air intrusions” that threaten to disrupt polar ice all year round.
The biggest mobile technology showcase of the year wrapped up in Barcelona yesterday. We took a look at some of the highlights.
If intelligently managed, festivals attract substantial numbers of LGBT tourists to regional and rural destinations, injecting additional income into the local economies.
The physical and political space of cities can be shaped from above or below, but few have had more revolutionary changes, first under the tsars, then the communists, than St Petersburg.
The beguiling works on display in an exhibition by Muslim Australian artists are grounded in the realities of their daily lives.
The Franklin River campaign is commonly seen as a green victory; a fight for the right of ‘wilderness’ to exist. But archaeological research revealing the region’s deep Aboriginal history was crucial to it.
A combination of analysis and action is the most effective way to close the persistent gender wage gap.
The cheerleader effect describes the phenomenon that you appear more attractive in a group than solo - and it works for men as well as women.
Despite a devastating toll in the seven-year conflict, which has seen 400,000 people killed and six million displaced, there is no end in sight for the people of Syria.
When it comes to increasing Indigenous Australians’ participation in higher education, we could take a leaf from our neighbour’s book.
Hazing is unacceptable, but criminalising it may cause more problems than it solves.
Middle ear infections (otitis media) are a common and often painful condition that
most children will experience at least once in their first year.
Scholars and planners have long pointed out the need in Australia’s big cities for democratic governance structures that operate at a citywide scale. Now Infrastructure Australia has weighed in.
Politicians may agree, at the level of generality, that their discourse should be more civil. Yet in practice, they simply refuse to change.