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Editor's note
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When you’re sitting at your desk and next to you a colleague is tapping a pen while swearing at a computer screen, it’s tempting to pine for the days of cubicles or closed-door offices.
As our workspaces become more casual, our office etiquette has changed to match. In this episode of Business Briefing podcast we explore how you can cope and where the boundaries now lie.
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Jenni Henderson
Editor, Business and Economy
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Top story
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How should you signal that you don’t want to be disturbed?
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Jenni Henderson, The Conversation; Josh Nicholas, The Conversation; Nadia Isa, The Conversation
Our workplaces are becoming less formal. But there were some advantages to the old formality.
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Politics + Society
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Andrea Waling, La Trobe University
'Creepshots' are provoking questions concerning rights to privacy in public, and ethical concerns regarding technology and bodily autonomy.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
While a lot of people just shrug impatiently at insider politics, a substantial number have turned to 'outsider' players.
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Megan MacKenzie, University of Sydney
We need to acknowledge that 'band of brothers' military culture has a dark underbelly – and that individual acts of atrocity might be a reflection of broader, systemic issues.
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Sam Hartridge, UNSW
Unlike most domestic criminal law, the laws governing the behaviour of Australian armed forces apply to criminal conduct alleged to have taken place overseas.
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Cities
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Fiona McKenzie, La Trobe University
New research reveals outdated concepts and thinking are shaping Australia’s troubled housing system.
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Liam Magee, Western Sydney University; David Sweeting, Western Sydney University; Teresa Swist, Western Sydney University
A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.
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Abby Mellick Lopes, Western Sydney University
Extreme heat divides people from the environment and from each other. So with the rapid densification of our cities, what kind of legacies are we building for future generations?
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Education
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Steven Greenland, Charles Darwin University; Catherine Moore, University of South Australia
Universities need to better accommodate student employment to improve the retention of online students.
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Andrew Martin, UNSW
There are four key styles to parenting high school students, and parents will likely need to move between two of them as their children grow up.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Lowe, University of Adelaide; Anita Smyth, University of Adelaide; Ben Sparrow, University of Adelaide; Glenda Wardle, University of Sydney
With the right approach to data security, scientists' discoveries of the locations of rare and sought-after species needn't leave a trail for poachers to follow.
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Andrew Peters, Charles Sturt University
Two recently emerging viruses in domestic pigeons in Australia may pose a significant threat to Australia's 22 species of native pigeons and doves, many of which have crucial ecosystem roles.
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Science + Technology
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Virginia Kilborn, Swinburne University of Technology; Sarah Brough, UNSW
Efforts to reduce the gender gap and encourage more women in Australian astronomy have been rewarded this week.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Data Governance Australia chairman Graeme Samuel hopes that a self-regulatory code of conduct will raise the standards among data-driven organisations.
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Arts + Culture
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Myles Russell Cook, University of Melbourne
Anthropologist Percy Leason thought he was painting the extinction of Victoria's Indigenous people in the 1930s. He was wrong, but his portraits, part of a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, are surprisingly sympathetic.
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Health + Medicine
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Katherine Livingstone, Deakin University
A survey of Australians found most (70%) thought that a plant-based diet would prevent disease. But what does the literature say? And is meat really bad that for you?
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Evita March, Federation University Australia
Trolls tend to know the impact they'll have, but don't seem to care. So, how do we use our new findings to help stop this seemingly pointless, harmful behaviour?
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Business + Economy
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Jarrod Ormiston, Maastricht University
Social enterprises set up by refugees are also helping countries to overcome some of the challenges of economic and social integration of new arrivals.
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Columnists
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Featured jobs
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University of Melbourne — Parkville, Victoria
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Westpac Bicentennial Foundation — Melbourne, Victoria
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University of Technology Sydney — Sydney, New South Wales
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Swinburne University of Technology — Hawthorn, Victoria
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Featured events
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119 Buckhurst Street, South Melbourne , Victoria, 3205, Australia — University of Melbourne
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Conference Room, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, 76 Hawkesbury Rd, Westmead, Australian Capital Territory, 2145, Australia — University of Sydney
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Deakin Burwood, Burwood Corporate Centre, Level 2, Building BC, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood., Melbourne, Victoria, 3125, Australia — Deakin University
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Great Hall, Level 5, UTS Tower building, 15 Broadway, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia — University of Technology Sydney
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