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How interesting to see Rupert Murdoch’s mother, Dame Elisabeth, gracing the front pages of Fairfax papers, signing a letter supporting putting a price on carbon. Her son, Rupert Murdoch has also stated…
Unlike politics, unlike sport, literature doesn’t appear an obvious candidate for scandal. Most literary controversies can’t be easily packaged along the Camillagate, Zippergate, Weinergate lines; can’t…
Let’s be clear: immunisations matter. They matter a lot. We all have a complex and ever-changing ecology of microorganisms and parasites inside our bodies and in our community. A recent fatal case of diphtheria…
Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece’s sovereign debt rating by three notches on Monday, reflecting its view that it would be next to impossible to imagine a scenario where the country could restructure…
Recent changes to the Victorian Crimes Act now mean that repeated acts of bullying are now classified in Victoria under the criminal offence of stalking. In theory, if not in practice, bullying – either…
In 2002, the Australian federal Parliament passed two Acts to regulate human embryo and stem cell research. The Prohibition of Human Cloning Act banned practices that people seemed to be most worried about…
If climate change ever was in equal part a moral, economic and environmental challenge, then it is no longer so. Morality has fallen from attention. The economists have long dominated the climate change…
Predicting the future has never been more important – or more difficult. We have a strong sense that we need to prepare, but only a limited understanding of what exactly to prepare for. While the broad…
The first promotional interview for my new book The Bogan Delusion brought it home very strongly. As the drivetime radio host in Perth and I chatted amiably about the superficial aspects of the possible…
As a five member panel headed by noted business figure and University of NSW chancellor David Gonski reaches the final stages of its review into the structure of school funding in Australia, lobbying by…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs emerged briefly from medical leave to introduce iCloud at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco yesterday (2am Australian EST). So how was it? In previous…
National wage cases in the 1970s and 1980s were big news. Studying economics at high school at the time, I always looked forward to days when the Arbitration Commission handed down its wage judgement…
This week, unpublished estimates from the International Energy Institute showed that 2010 was the most carbon-intensive year in human history. Chief Economist of the IEA Dr Fatih Birol responded to the…
A combination of science and economics provide compelling reasons for policy initiatives and decisions by businesses and households to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The arguments are strongest…
The American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s angst-ridden visit to Islamabad exemplifies the global concern about Pakistan, and its future. Indeed, the country has witnessed a new escalation in terrorist…
You’ve just died. Your family is distraught. Before passing on, you made arrangements to donate your body to your local university for the purpose of scientific training. Your family and friends respect…
Thanks to the genetic revolution and the internet, we can now see a way to map genetic diseases and reduce the burden of inherited conditions. Each year more than 3 million children born with a serious…
Last night, the ABC’s Four Corners brought the horror of the Indonesian slaughterhouse into Australian living rooms. The government’s response to images of cattle being hacked to death, having their tails…
Pornography is hardly an under-theorised medium. For decades, radical feminists have decried its imagery as an instruction manual for rape. As women being objectified, humiliated, tortured. As men receiving…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Digital Health Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Dean (Sustainability), The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Agri-Food Biotechnology, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne., The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Crop Biotechnology, The University of Melbourne
