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Australia’s foreign real estate investment boom looks to be over. Here are five things we learned
Dallas Rogers | June 1, 2018Domestic and foreign real estate investment have long been connected to the financial services industries, and the built environment is central to creating and storing surplus capital. Australian cities continue to be heavily influenced by global money despite the recent slowdown in foreign purchases.
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PNG to push out Facebook, taking a sharp turn into cyber censorship
Danielle Cave | May 31, 2018PNG’s Communications Minister Sam Basil, a regular Facebook user himself, has announced that PNG will shut down the social media site for a month so that his department can research how the network is being used. Whether or not it actually happens, the announcement bodes ill for the nation.
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Are we preparing to fight the wrong war?
Kym Bergmann | May 31, 2018Are we preparing to fight the wrong war? That’s the question being asked increasingly frequently by Australian defence planners, especially in the RAAF. What makes some people nervous are a number of emerging disruptive technologies that will have a profound effect on military operations in the very near future.
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New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
Clare Collins | May 31, 2018Most people in Western countries don’t have an optimal diet however a new review suggests that taking supplements as an “insurance policy” against poor dietary habits is ineffective. Indeed, complications or health problems due to nutrient intakes are virtually always due to taking too many supplements, rather than not eating proper food.
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Paid parental leave in the USA and Australia
Deborah Widiss | May 30, 2018Korea and Japan win hands down when it comes to fathers’ parental leave entitlements across OECD nations. Australia is among the worst, and the USA comes last of all, but Australia can learn from the US in terms of ‘primary carer’ preference.
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A ‘new normal’ in the South China Sea?
Mark Valencia | May 30, 2018The United States and China have apparently reached a tacit agreement to avoid outright confrontation in the disputed South China Sea. Relations between ASEAN claimants and between ASEAN and China rest on a similar plateau but long term rapprochement remains a distant prospect.
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Does early stress increase the likelihood of chronic pain?
Sarah Nelson | May 30, 2018Few studies have examined the potential relationship between ‘adverse childhood events’ and chronic pain but understanding their inter-relationship could inform prevention and treatment in the future.
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Kangaroo step-up and Kiwi reset in the South Pacific
Graeme Dobell | May 29, 2018Australia and New Zealand understand the demand to do more in the Pacific and the need to do some things differently. Whatever future directions both countries take, they must pursue them together.
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Speeding natural selection in the name of conservation
Andrew Trounson | May 29, 2018A breeding experiment to genetically adapt quolls to resist toxic cane toads could lead to a new tool to help endangered creatures from corals to Tasmanian Devils
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Technology and relationships: A complicated connection
Shayen de Silva | May 29, 2018Modern relationships and the ways we communicate have evolved with the growth of the digital world but are we becoming more connected? Or are we losing touch with each other?
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Making disability support work across real lives
Catriona May | May 28, 2018The National Disability Insurance Scheme is a game changer, but the challenge is to make it work across people’s life course, from education and housing, to social participation and employment.
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Would graphic warnings on unhealthy food make you think again?
Andrew Trounson | May 28, 2018A new study shows that health warnings on packaged foods can help us make healthier choices and argues that negative messaging can effectively drive the point home.
