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Editor's note
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Despite lower unemployment rates, we are feeling more insecure at work now than ever before. And the precariousness of work is actually increasing far more rapidly for men.
This is according to a new index researchers have developed. It uses 12 indicators to show in what industries and occupations workers aren’t getting the conditions and hours they want.
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Jenni Henderson
Section Editor: Business + Economy
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Agriculture, forestry and fishing, and arts and recreation services are much more precarious for their employees.
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Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University; Alan Duncan, Curtin University; Astghik Mavisakalyan, Curtin University; John Phillimore, Curtin University; Yashar Tarverdi, Curtin University
Despite relatively stable and low levels of unemployment, workers are increasingly concerned that their jobs are at risk.
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Health + Medicine
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Alexandra Hansen, The Conversation
We've all hear we should drink eight glasses of water per day, but where did that advice come from, and is it outdated?
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Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University
While childbirth is often a joyful event, it rarely unfolds exactly how we think it will. This causes disappointment among some women, and leaves a small proportion with a diagnosis of postnatal PTSD.
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Arts + Culture
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Benjamin Wilson Mountford, La Trobe University
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming opium as an expense – but was never promoted above his entry rank of detective third class.
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Kylie Sturgess, Murdoch University
Superstition holds that Friday 13th is the day to stay in bed and avoid taking risks. But it's all in our heads.
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Ben Etherington, Western Sydney University
Tracker Tilmouth was a central and visionary figure in Aboriginal politics. His life is captured in Alexis Wright's Tracker through the voices of many, rather than the tradition of European biography.
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Cities
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Andrew Leach, University of Sydney
Behind the built-up glitz of Surfers Paradise lies a deep history that has been written and overwritten in successive layers that have become thinner and thinner as time goes on.
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Politics + Society
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Krystian Seibert, Swinburne University of Technology
A parliamentary committee has identified major flaws in the Australian government's proposed changes to electoral law, which have big implications for charities.
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Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University
Despite attempts to import its ideas, evangelical Christianity has never held the same political appeal in Australia as it does in the United States.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
It doesn't need a review to tell you that for the sheep these voyages - even when they go better than this one did - are hell, whatever "standards" are imposed.
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Olga Oleinikova, University of Sydney
For Ukrainians, the legacy of the Euromaidan revolution is decidedly mixed, and for the protesters who waved European Union flags EU membership now looks like a distant dream.
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Chris Berg, RMIT University
Libertarianism is a minority concern in Australian politics, but it offers a philosophical framework to understand contemporary social and economic challenges.
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Science + Technology
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Dirk Baur, University of Western Australia; Daniel Cahill, University of Western Australia; frank.liu@uwa.edu.au, University of Western Australia
The technology behind blockchain remains a mystery to many, but the it shares many common features with the popular online encyclopedia with which most web users are very familiar.
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Helen Taylor
Inbreeding and male infertility could be impeding the recovery of one of New Zealand's threatened birds - the stitchbird, or hihi. Hihi sperm might hold the answer, and help raise funds for conservation.
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Catherine de Fontenay, Melbourne Business School
Concerns that regulation could cement Facebook's market position don't account for the unique features of social media business models.
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Commonwealth Games 2018
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Jon Buckley, University of South Australia
The continual breaking of World Records is the result of complex interactions between genetics, talent, equipment, training and nutrition.
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Environment + Energy
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Jonathan Pollock, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Andrew B. Watkins, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Catherine Ganter, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Record-breaking April heat is likely to continue for at least another month.
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Featured jobs
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