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Editor's note
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You might just have more in common with bees than you thought. In the past fortnight, we’ve published two fairly revealing pieces about this hardworking little insect, the first that they understand the concept of 0 (this research is amazing) and the second on how they get stressed at work. Finding pollen is a hard slog; bees have to deal with predators, challenging weather conditions and the very real risk of getting lost. I for one won’t be complaining about whether the thermostat is the office is too cold ever again – at least I’m
not at risk of being squished.
In other news this week, renowned writer and academic Dennis Altman wrote for us about how Australia’s obsession with the US and UK is having a real impact on our politics. It’s a long read but a good one about why we still look unreflectively to the US and Britain for intellectual guidance.
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Molly Glassey
Newsletter Editor
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Top story
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Australia’s cultural obsession with the US and the UK has real impacts on our politics.
SHAWN THEW
Dennis Altman, La Trobe University
Coined in a science-fiction novel in 1995, the Anglosphere has become Australia's cultural (and political) obsession. That leaves us blind to other perspectives.
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A new study shows foraging for pollen and nectar causes stress in bees.
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Amélie Cabirol, University of Trento; Andrew Barron, Macquarie University
The work honey bees do is critical for our ecosystems, but it comes at a high personal cost.
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Environment + Energy
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Tien Huynh, RMIT University; Mitchell Jones, RMIT University
Waste byproducts from rice and glass combined with fungus can create a construction material with the potential to save lives and the planet.
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Peter Simmons, Charles Sturt University; Michael Mehmet, Charles Sturt University
The news media routinely 'beats up' shark stories in search of clicks and profits, according to focus groups and surveys of social media posts.
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Politics + Society
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Sarah Joseph, Monash University
The UN human rights council can certainly be improved, but the worst way to do that is by walking away.
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
A motion to privatise the ABC, no matter how vigorously repudiated by the government, is political poison, and may now reap a political harvest.
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Business + Economy
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Miranda Stewart, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
An 85-95% effective marginal tax rate means the second earner in a low-income family can increase from two days' work a week to three, four or five days and be better off by only about $4,000 a year.
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Richard Holden, UNSW; Rosalind Dixon, UNSW
There's a lot that Richard Denniss gets right. Neoliberalism clearly has an array of problems. But he risks throwing out what is good about liberalism in attacking neoliberalism.
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Science + Technology
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Emma Thomas, Flinders University; Craig McGarty, Western Sydney University; Laura G. E. Smith, University of Bath
Social media can act as the engine room for public engagement with refugees, allowing people to move beyond 'I should do something' to 'I will take action'.
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Vincent Mitchell, University of Sydney; Bernadette Kamleitner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
People find data difficult to own – and things we don't own, we tend not to protect.
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Health + Medicine
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Michael Freeman
Many people have an appearance of dark circles on the lower eyelids, and they have many different causes.
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Jade Sheen, Deakin University; Jane McGillivray, Deakin University
If your child has a problem with defiant behaviours, there are a number of things you can do to avoid standoffs and reduce the chance of meltdowns. Here's how.
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Arts + Culture
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Dennis Altman, La Trobe University
Coined in a science-fiction novel in 1995, the Anglosphere has become Australia's cultural (and political) obsession. That leaves us blind to other perspectives.
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Sophia Waters, University of New England
Could an Aussie high schooler say to our prime minister, "How’s it goin’, Mal?", and get away with it? Probably.
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Cities
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Nicole Kalms, Monash University
Australia has guidelines for designing safe parks, but the stories of many women show these are not enough. We must involve women in co-designing these shared public spaces.
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Chyi Lin Lee, Western Sydney University; Awais Piracha, Western Sydney University; Youqing Fan, Western Sydney University
In Sydney, a 'latte line', that runs from the airport to Parramatta and up to the northwest, divides white-collar jobs from blue-collar jobs. This perpetuates inequality.
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Education
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Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University
Concerns about non-English-speaking migrant populations leading to "parallel communities" are not well founded. Third-generation migrants are typically monolingual in English.
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Katharine Gelber, The University of Queensland
Most universities do, in fact, mention academic freedom in several policy documents, such as enterprise bargaining agreements and other codes of conduct.
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