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Editor's note
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After numerous scandals at financial institutions over the past few years, Elizabeth Sheedy and Lyla Zhang set out to discover why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations. Pay incentives are partly to blame, but so are culture and the attitudes of the individual traders.
And a new study on teeth found in a cave more than 100 years ago reveals early humans made it to Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago, up to 20,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Josh Nicholas
Deputy Editor Business & Economy
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Traders are less likely to follow policies when companies and co-workers are heavily profit-focused.
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Elizabeth Sheedy, Macquarie University; Le (Lyla) Zhang, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
New research shows that pay incentives, culture and employee attitudes all contribute to the failure to comply with policies and regulations.
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Science + Technology
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Kira Westaway, Macquarie University
The evidence of a much earlier presence of humans in Indonesia was found more than 100 years ago. But only now has the age of the fossil teeth been accurately dated.
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Emily Lowe-Calverley, University of Tasmania; Rachel Grieve, University of Tasmania
Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend's holiday snaps on Facebook: that's workplace cyberloafing.
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Politics + Society
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Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, UNSW
Stigma continues to inform legal, social and cultural attitudes towards sex work and remains a barrier to health, human rights and justice. Developing stigma indicators is one step towards change.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Pauline Hanson is set to move that the High Court consider the eligibility of her One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.
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Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota; Robert Ralston, University of Minnesota
Eloquent Obama and bombastic Trump certainly have different speaking styles. But a big data analysis of their speeches also shows a surprising commonality.
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Sangeetha Pillai, UNSW
Whether or not a prospective citizen would face a longer wait in Australia compared to Germany, Canada or the UK comes down to their individual circumstances.
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Roy Hay, Deakin University
It’s worth defending the principle that the national governing body, not the clubs and not the states, should run football in Australia.
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Education
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Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast
Parents need to use different approaches to shape behaviour depending on the child's personality type.
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Health + Medicine
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Tina Bianco-Miotto, University of Adelaide; Claire Roberts, University of Adelaide
If something goes wrong in pregnancy, a boy baby is more likely to be born malnourished or stillborn than a girl. This may have an evolutionary basis.
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Ben O'Mara, Swinburne University of Technology
Dependency on opioid painkillers reflects what we already know about life in the small towns of Australia - people tend to have poorer health.
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William Isdale, University of Melbourne
William Isdale speaks with Nancy Pachana about why we should stop thinking about ageing as a time of decline, and focus on engaging and leveraging the experience of our elders.
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Environment + Energy
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Jon Christensen, University of California, Los Angeles
An experiment in getting people to care about climate change uses slick videos, charismatic scientists and calls to action.
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Thomas Prowse, University of Adelaide; Joshua Ross, University of Adelaide; Paul Thomas, University of Adelaide; Phill Cassey, University of Adelaide
Releasing just 100 mice carrying a faulty gene designed to stop them reproducing can remove an entire population of 50,000, a new study shows, paving the way for new eradication efforts.
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Cities
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Nicole Kalms, Monash University
Despite the rise of feminism, strip clubs and other 'sexual entertainment' businesses have proliferated in our cities. And women are feeling the harmful impacts of the industry's presence.
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