Do 8 men really control the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population?
Jan 18, 2017 05:57 am UTC| Life Economy
A new Oxfam Report has a number of startling claims about wealth inequality around the world the worlds eight richest people control the same wealth as the poorest half of the globes population, Australias two richest...
Unpaid work experience is widespread but some are missing out: new study
Jan 18, 2017 05:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Economy
Most young Australians undertake unpaid work experience as part of their education or training, to maintain entitlements to social security, or simply to improve their job prospects. But those from more disadvantaged...
Social Media Revolution Series
How to be a healthy user of social media
Jan 17, 2017 08:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
We can learn a lot about people through how they use social media. For example, Twitter language can be used to predict the risk of dying from heart disease. Analyses of Facebook updates show women tend to be warmer...
When care becomes control - financial abuse cuts across cultures
Jan 17, 2017 00:31 am UTC| Life
Carol, in her late 60s, had a joint bank account with her second husband. She put her A$60,000 in savings into it. Her husband didnt have a regular wage but controlled the money, Carol also had a credit card but her...
Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city
Jan 17, 2017 00:18 am UTC| Life
If you were to create the scent of a city, how would you do it and where would your olfactory messages come from? It might be the smell of fresh bread and coffee. Or a trace of brine in the air with your morning swim. The...
Teachers can use drama to bring writing to life for children
Jan 14, 2017 06:00 am UTC| Life
With prescriptive teaching styles, a test-based culture and an obsession with attainment levels, its not surprising that children in the UK are in danger of being put off writing. This is happening from a very young age...
Inside the big fat Indian wedding: conservatism, competition, and networks
Jan 13, 2017 15:06 pm UTC| Life
Indian weddings are most famously imagined as enormous spectacles. This image is surely real, though representative of a small segment of the Indian population, and realised only in the world of the super-rich. Some...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects