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Editor's note
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Bo, aged 9, wrote to The Conversation with a simple question: why do adults think video games are bad? Today, Joanne Orlando explains that experts think playing video games can have both good and bad effects on kids, and has some suggestions about striking the right balance.
Also today, a survey of almost 900 Sydney residents has found that more than half think foreign investors should not be allowed to buy real estate in the city.
And finally, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to The Conversation. Your support of $30 a month helps put evidence and research into the public debate, so we can all be part of a better conversation.
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Why not ask a parent to play a problem-solving video game with you?
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Joanne Orlando, Western Sydney University
Bo, aged nine, wants to know why adults think video games are bad.
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Cities
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Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney; Alexandra Wong, Western Sydney University; Jacqueline Nelson, University of Technology Sydney
Only 18% of Sydneysiders think foreign investors should be able to buy property. They simply don't accept arguments that this investment improves housing affordability by increasing supply.
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Business + Economy
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Richard Holden, UNSW; Rosalind Dixon, UNSW
The side effects of globalisation that have led to our current populist politics will not be successfully addressed by old-style industry policy.
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Politics + Society
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Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University
Christianity plays a relatively minor role in Australian politics. Instead, it takes the guise of a general cultural conservatism, as demonstrated by the same-sex marriage and school funding debates.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
If Peter Dutton lost his seat it would be a major blow to the conservative wing of the Liberal Party.
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James Der Derian, University of Sydney
Pundits have been keen to link post-truth to post-modernists, post-positivists or any other 'postie'. They should turn their energy to forming a real popular front against Trump's faux populism.
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Chelsea Bond, The University of Queensland
The result of the 1967 referendum may well have made Australia appear less racist, but it did not address the inherently racist nature of the Constitution.
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Science + Technology
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Ingrid Appelqvist, CSIRO
Your genes, your saliva and the bacteria that live in your mouth all shape how food tastes and what you prefer to eat.
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Micheal Axelsen, The University of Queensland
Movies tell us that paying a ransom means the bad guys win, but in the real world it's not that simple.
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Arts + Culture
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Liam Burke, Swinburne University of Technology
As a comic hero, Wonder Woman's antecedents reach back to the suffragettes. And a long awaited feature film offers us a fittingly feminist story.
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Brendan Keogh, RMIT University
Australia's videogame industry has called for an end to the government's silence around funding. And with local games competing on the world stage, it's time for the cultural medium to be recognised alongside TV and film.
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Health + Medicine
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Karen Zwi, UNSW
New research into the health of newly arrived refugee children in Australia gives us clues about how we can help all refugee kids.
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Philip Clarke, University of Melbourne; Josh Knight, University of Melbourne; Xinyang Hua, University of Melbourne
While we must put in place effective measures to protect against the malicious use of personal data, not using the information collected about Australians comes at a cost.
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Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute
Leaked documents of a secret 'taskforce' to reform public hospital funding reveal some controversial proposals. So how are hospitals funded and why might this need changing?
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Environment + Energy
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Jonathan Pickering, University of Canberra
Some experts say it's better for the US to leave the Paris Agreement than white-ant it from within. But that ignores the damage that a US withdrawal would do to the fabric of global multilateralism.
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Bill Laurance, James Cook University
Legislation designed to protect wildlife is being rolled back or ignored in all sorts of ways in all sorts of places, according to a new global database of attacks on green tape.
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Education
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Turnbull government's schools funding proposal 'should be embraced by all sides of politics' provided some adjustments are made, a Grattan Institute submission says.
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