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Since the 1980s, Australia’s housing market has become a ‘closed shop’ that expands the wealth of existing home owners and investors. Alison Pennington traces the changes – and suggests another way.
New research finds that some common houseplants take in nutrients from outside the soil.
Younger people are spending more on experiences, and cutting back on alcohol.
For China’s new youth generation, shopping has become an outpost of politics.
The gradual changes in voting behaviour represent an existential crisis for the Liberals going forward.
A scholar who studies the morality of debt argues why canceling some student debt is fair.
About a third of American adults in Generation Z lack the money or resources needed for reliable access to nutritious food.
Newer apps like Thursday prioritise meeting in person over possibly endless online chat.
The extraordinary increase in house prices and debt means mortgage rates of 7% would be as painful to borrowers today as rates of 17% were decades ago.
New research suggests that for millennials and Generation Z, a lack of rules around love and dating brings both loss and liberation.
As women’s relationship with work and career has changed, so too has the relationship with parenting. What women need now is more targeted support in raising children.
More and more students want their universities to lead the way on sustainability issues. But are institutions doing enough to produce industry leaders who can meet that challenge?
A scholar of nutrition opens up with a personal take on food insecurity in America.
Tropes around woke warriors and their heartless parents get us nowhere.
The political alliance between American evangelicals and Israel’s right wing may have peaked during the Trump administration.
Growing numbers of young evangelicals and ‘Exvangelicals’ are pro-LGBTQ, support #BlackLivesMatter – or are fed up altogether with mixing faith and politics.
For those born around 1950, 84% earned more at age 30-34 than their own own parents did at the same age. It has been about 68% for those born since the early 1960s.
Three scholars examine President Biden’s rhetoric, the symbolism and the several ambitious plans he proposed in his first address to Congress.
The survey also found that trans people who live in their affirmed gender report experiencing less stigma, anxiety and depression.
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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FWO / Banting Fellow, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven
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Visting Instructor in Sociology, University of South Florida
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Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
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Senior Lecturer, Social Policy and Housing, University of Stirling
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Director Master of Engineering in Financial Technology, Duke University
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Lecturer in English and Writing, James Cook University
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Distinguished Professor, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Security Studies, Macquarie University
