Guide To Contractors Insurance
Anybody or any company which is involved in the construction industry will obviously be involved in working at a contractual site at some point or another. This is a type of construction work which ob...
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US-Iran conflict escalates again, raising the threat of another war in the Middle East
The United States' reinstitution of punitive sanctions is causing real hardship to Iranians.AAP/EPA/Abedin TaherkenarehLet’s start with a number. On any given day, more than 17 million barrels o...
Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Paladin contract secrecy highlights our broken refugee system
PNG not only wants to end the Paladin security contract on Manus Island, it's demanding Australia find a permanent solution to the refugee crisis.Joel Carrett/AAPNearly six years into the revival of i...
Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too far
Tomsickova Tatyana/ShutterstockSydney Morning Herald reporter Jacqueline Maley evoked the spectre of the Orwellian surveillance state recently when discussing how library staff had been implicated in ...
Rebecca Williamson, Research Officer, Australian National University
Pinchgut's The Return of Ulysses: a stylish, enjoyable, historically informed opera premiere
Fernando Guimarâes and Brenton Spiteri in The Return of Ulysses.Brett Boardman Review: The return of Ulysses, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney.Claudio Monteverdi entered the 73rd year of his life when he ...
Zoltan Szabo, Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney
Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work
Most consumers are unaware that the Health Star Rating system is compensatory, and that one negative nutritional attribute, such as high sugar, can be cancelled out by a positive attribute like fibre...
Jessica C Lai, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington
Below zero is ‘reverse’. How the Reserve Bank would make quantitative easing work
Road tested. Quantitative easing worked in the US, and can work even better here.ShutterstockWith its official cash rate now expected to fall below 1% to a new extraordinarily low close to zero, all ...
Stephen Kirchner, Program Director, Trade and Investment, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
How to answer the argument that Australia's emissions are too small to make a difference
After a recent foray into the debate over Australia’s so-called “climate election”, I received plenty of critical replies to my argument that Australians should take climate action m...
Matt McDonald, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
How advertising can repurpose itself to serve cities in more sustainable ways
Domino’s Paving for Pizza campaign shrewdly combines promotion of its product with meeting a public need to have potholes repaired. Domino's PizzaNoisy, ugly and dirty. Advertising has polluted ...
Sergio Brodsky, Sessional Lecturer, Marketing, RMIT University
Five films not to miss from the 2019 Sydney Film Festival
The French film School's Out is a masterpiece.Avenue B Productions, Canal+, OCSA “top five” list from a major film festival will inevitably annoy many people, because, by necessity, there ...
Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
An incredible journey: the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
The first people to walk along the shores of northern Australia arrived more than 50,000 years ago.Corey Bradshaw, CC BY-NCThe size of the first population of people needed to arrive, survive, and thr...
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Fellow in Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
It's time for Australia to commit to the kind of future it wants: CSIRO Australian National Outlook 2019
Australia's future prosperity will require bold action on a number of fronts and a deliberate commitment to careful and considered long-term thinkingHendra Pontomudis / unsplash, CC BYAustralia&rsqu...
James Deverell, Director, CSIRO Futures, CSIRO
Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work
Most consumers are unaware that the Health Star Rating system is compensatory, and that one negative nutritional attribute, such as high sugar, can be cancelled out by a positive attribute like fibre...
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5 Best Attractions of Dubai
Dubai is best known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture and attractive nightlife scene where Burj Khalifa is the most famous attraction here, 830m tallest tower in the world. It is the lar...
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Explainer: what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
At least one in ten of us suffer some sort of troublesome, long-term (chronic) pain. But not all have fibromyalgia.People with fibromyalgia have chronic widespread pain — including musculoskelet…
Final 2019 election results: education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
The most important reason for the Coalition's victory was that Morrison was both liked and trusted by lower-educated voters, while Labor leader Bill Shorten was not.Mick Tsikas/AAPAt the May 18 electi…
Albanese to Setka: forget court action – you won't win
Anthony Albanese says he has legal advice to back his move to have John Setka expelled from the ALP, warning him against wasting union members’ money on court action.This followed fighting words…
Explainer: what is 'hybrid warfare' and what is meant by the 'grey zone'?
There is an ongoing, low intensity cyber conflict between nation states that involves attacks and counter-attacks on critical infrastructure like power grids.ShutterstockAt a conference last week, Aus…
Pressure builds with more protests in Hong Kong, but what's the end game?
According to organisers, two million people marched Sunday in Hong Kong, with many shifting focus away from a controversial extradition bill to the resignation of the Beijing-backed chief executive, C…
There's a looming waste crisis from Australia's solar energy boom
Rooftop solar has boomed, but soalr panels only last about 20 years. What happens to the waste? Flickr, CC BY-SAAs Australians seek to control rising energy costs and tackle the damaging impacts of cl…
Curious Kids: who came up with the first letters?
Writing wasn’t just invented once by a single person. Many different ancient societies invented writing at different times and places. www.shutterstock.comCurious Kids is a series for children. …
With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending
New Zealand's military aircraft are used for disaster relief, such as following a series of earthquakes in Sulawesi in 2018. EPA/Holti Simanjuntak, CC BY-NDIn most countries, the question of whether t…
Inducing consumer paralysis: how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
Three decades of behavioural experiments show consumers given too many choices are more likely to make a bad or no choice.www.shutterstock.comDo you think you are paying more than you should for energ…
We asked people to do climate change maths. Their answers depended on their politics
In an ideal world, people would look at issues with a clear focus only on the facts. But in the real world, we know that doesn’t happen often. People often look at issues through the prism of th…
Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous
The symptoms we put down to teething might be caused by something else. And many teething products, like gels and necklaces, might actually harm.from www.shutterstock.comIf you imagine a teething chil…
What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job
Today's view of education is largely underpinned by the philosophy of pragmatism.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDThis essay is part of a series of articles on the future of education.For much o…
More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help
More students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are attending university than a decade ago.from shutterstock.comEnrolments to Australian public universities boomed during the last decade. This was …
Caring for Country: how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services
The payment for ecosystem services (PES) model is supporting a new wave of self-determined construction on Aboriginal homelands. With no secure strategy for government infrastructure investment in hom…
The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
The New York Times decision to end daily political cartoons in its international edition has led to predictions of the death of cartooning. But the decision actually reflects an increasingly globalise…
Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
Raw sewage from 3,500 people in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs is discharged directly into the ocean. Will Turner/UnsplashAustralians love our iconic coastal lifestyle. So many of our settlements a…
Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
Many high school students are politically engaged. But how would they change the preamble to the Constitution?AAP/Lukas CochWhen the Australian constitution was written in the 1890s, the authors did n…
Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
The government almost certainly would have to obtain the support of Tasmanian crossbench senator Jacqui Lambie to amend or repeal the medevac legislation.Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton on Sunday c…
Below zero is ‘reverse’. How the Reserve Bank would make quantitative easing work
Road tested. Quantitative easing worked in the US, and can work even better here.ShutterstockWith its official cash rate now expected to fall below 1% to a new extraordinarily low close to zero, all …
Mass protests protect Hong Kong's legal autonomy from China – for now
Protesters in Hong Kong have achieved a major victory in their fight to protect their legal system from Chinese interference. On June 15, in response to massive popular resistance, Chief Executive Car…
Thousands of asylum seekers left waiting at the US-Mexico border
The U.S.-Mexico border, between San Diego and Calexico, California.Savitri Arvey, CC BY-SAOver the past three months, the number of Central Americans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has jumped expo…
What does the dust in your home mean for your health?
Some ingredients in those tiny particles can have big impacts.Yaroslau Mikheyeu/Shutterstock.comYou vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and …
Most US drug arrests involve a gram or less
Less than one percent of state and local drug arrests involve amounts over a kilogram.content_creator/Shutterstock.comIn the long-running television drama “Breaking Bad,” viewers watched t…
No African American has won statewide office in Mississippi in 129 years – here's why
People waited outside the Supreme Court in 2013 to listen to the Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder voting rights case.AP Photo/Evan VucciMississippi is home to the highest percentage of African Americans …
The Trebek effect: The benefits of well wishes
Alex Trebek pictured in Pasadena, California on May 5, 2019.Richard Shotwell/Invision/APLong-time “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek announced in March that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pa…
4 Reasons Why You Might Struggle To Make A Profit In Your Business
So...how profitable is your business? We hope you are making a success of your operation, but if you are barely making a profit, or if (dare we say it) making more losses than financial gains, then…
Inducing consumer paralysis: how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
Three decades of behavioural experiments show consumers given too many choices are more likely to make a bad or no choice.www.shutterstock.comDo you think you are paying more than you should for energ…
Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
Quantum particles are not really just particles... they are also waves.Shutterstock/agsandrewThe word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there&rsq…
Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
Setka has form in attracting negative media attention as Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining, Maritime and Energy Union.AAP/Daniel PockettJohn Setka’s reported commen…