To deter Google and other big tech companies from misleading users about data collection, the Federal Court should impose heavy fines.
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Food-ordering platform Menulog has declared it will break with the standard contractor business model. But let's not get too excited yet.
We have two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines so far. But what else can this technology do?
New research examines how recent federal elections would have been affected if optional preferential voting had been used. The results were not favourable to Labor.
How does rock art matter? New research finds it can act as a kind of intergenerational media –even when no longer visible to the eye.
Uber has been forced by the UK courts to treat its British drivers as workers. It will probably require legislative change for Uber's Australian drivers to be treated as employees.
The environmental, cultural and scientific sensitivity of some sites, and rarity of some fossils, means amateur fossil collecting comes with huge risks.
The National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment bill goes against two explicit recommendations of the banking royal commission.
A transcript of episode 5 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including stories on the Arctic Ocean and new archaeological finds in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge.
Plus, new discoveries about early humans in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge. Listen to episode 5 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
We analysed the public communication strategies that Australia and France used to promote childhood immunisation. There are lessons to be learned for the government's current COVID vaccine campaign.
Google, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter have all agreed to a voluntary code of conduct targeting misinformation. But the only real commitment is to appear as though they're taking action.
Nigerians, as well as other Africans, need to actively work to decolonise social arrangements created by the British.
Years of vaccine research tells us that, if side effects are going to occur, they normally occur within the first months after getting a vaccine.
Some 17,000 years ago, Aboriginal artists often depicted kangaroos, fish, birds, reptiles, echidnas and plants — especially yams.
A small add-on to existing gravitational wave detectors could reveal what happens to matter as it becomes a black hole, a process like the big bang in reverse.
Reform of New Zealand's abusive gymnastics culture offers an opportunity to improve women's sports in general.
Australia should pivot to a high-efficacy vaccine like Pfizer or Novavax to give us the best chance of achieving herd immunity.
The 'exodus' from capital cities amounts to 0.06% of their populations – similar to recent years – and people are still moving to the cities. What's missing is growth driven by international migrants.
From Cantonese sausage on the goldfields, to mid-century sweet and sour pork, to today's delicate xiao long bao, Chinese food in Australia has come a long way.
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The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Kimberley Foundation Ian Potter Chair in Rock Art, Centre of Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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EdCC Earth Science Museum Curator, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow/Sessional Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Media and Communication Scholar, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Media and Communication, UWA, The University of Western Australia
