The royal commission wanted the corporate cop to first ask ‘why not litigate?’. The treasurer’s new guidelines suggest it should instead ask ‘why not negotiate?’.
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Climate change models predict tuna will leave the waters of Pacific Island nations, meaning they will lose a crucial revenue source.
One quarter of monitored social housing properties recorded winter temperatures below World Health Organisation standards for more than 80% of winter, new research shows.
Tight funding and COVID-related limits on face-to-face contact have forced academics to find other ways to expose students to the real-life work they are preparing them for.
Australia has suggested a UNESCO recommendation to list the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ was motivated by politics. This is hardly the first such accusation levied at the organisation.
Our research has also uncovered major long-term changes in ancient animal populations at Denisova Cave, and has provided the first direct evidence of Homo sapiens having lived there.
The new deputy prime minister is the latest in a long line of leaders in modern Australia who have prioritised style over substance.
Regional NSW, home to a third of the state’s population, is still waiting for the promise of faster train travel to be delivered. Other states improved their regional services years ago.
Australia’s Prime Minister wants reform of the World Trade Organization to rein in China’s ‘economic coercion’. But it also needs to constructively engage with China on that reform.
For the areas of cities with less than 10% green space, increasing that to 30% could cut the overall odds of residents becoming lonely by a quarter.
Thirty-six candidates were murdered since campaigning began in Mexico last September, including numerous members of the president’s own Morena party.
The Su-re site has provided a historical connection between local Tibetans in the highlands with Nepali Sherpas in the Himalayan lowlands.
James Packer’s Barangaroo tower has not just changed Sydney’s skyline. It has changed the whole planning system.
A pesar de los límites de la iniciativa, la legalización de la marihuana sería un hito simbólico de gran importancia para un país inmerso en una cruenta guerra contra el narco.
Following scandals over illegal logging, and with an appetite for rare, old-growth wood, the guitar industry is rethinking its environmental footprint. Australian companies are leading the way.
Tensions have been building over the last month following the killing of an Indonesian intelligence chief. The government has vowed to ‘chase and arrest’ all armed militants in the region.
In the 1700s ‘burial clubs’ emerged in response to fears of funeral poverty. These schemes persist today — along with marketing targeting the poor and vulnerable.
They overlook a vast body of evidence that crown fire – the most extreme type of fire behaviour in which tree canopies burn - is more likely in logged native forests.
A review of Question Time in the House of Representatives aims to make it more democratic and more edifying. But it’s not the structure as much as the culture that needs fixing.
Group visits and food are prohibited, and visitors must sit in designated chairs apart from their loved ones. Celebrating holidays in detention didn’t used to be like this.
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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PhD Candidate at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Wollongong
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong
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Associate professor in accounting, University of Wollongong
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Associate professor in Mental Health and Behavioural Science, University of Wollongong
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Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
