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Editor's note
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Australians are working fewer hours than they used to, with platforms like Uber and Deliveroo growing more popular with part-time workers. A new study shows the trade-offs these workers make as they seek to balance flexibility with a lack of control over their employment contract.
It’s all part of the new reality of work, one the platforms are all too happy to take advantage of.
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Jenni Henderson
Editor, Business and Economy
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Top story
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Gig workers saw their work as flexible but also with its risks.
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Sarah Kaine, University of Technology Sydney; Alex Veen, RMIT University; Caleb Goods, University of Western Australia; Emmanuel Josserand, University of Technology Sydney
A study shows the reality of gig worker experiences is far more nuanced than enjoying flexible work or being exploited.
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Politics + Society
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
News Corp on the right, Fairfax on the left. This division has a long history in Australia, to the detriment of quality journalism and public debate.
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Anna Boucher, University of Sydney; Daniel Ghezelbash, Macquarie University
Under US law, the president must publish all of their executive orders for public view. The Australian government is under no such obligation.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra; Nicholas Klomp, University of Canberra
Coalition backbenchers have expressed several doubts over the Finkel scheme, most notably on affordability and whether it will include coal.
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Sangeetha Pillai, UNSW
A new bill gives the immigration minister a range of new powers that relate to various aspects of the citizenship acquisition process.
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Cities
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Siobhan Lyons, Macquarie University
Wandering the city by foot helps us look beneath ordinary conceptions of the face value of a place to the meanings built up and lost over time.
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Health + Medicine
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Holly Hutton, Monash University
Many patients with end stage kidney disease would live longer and have a better quality of life with a kidney transplant compared to staying on dialysis.
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Kate Hunter, George Institute for Global Health; Lisa Keay, George Institute for Global Health
A new study has reported injuries are the greatest cause of death in Australian kids.
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Arts + Culture
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Helen Koukoutsis, Western Sydney University
A Quiet Passion, a film about Emily Dickinson's life, opens in cinemas this week. Dickinson wrote 1789 poems in her lifetime: only ten were published.
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Marc C-Scott, Victoria University
New ABS figures on film, TV and digital gaming show that subscription broadcasters and online content creators are booming. Yet local content quotas only apply to free-to-air broadcasters.
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Science + Technology
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Craig Anderson, University of Technology Sydney
There's a reason why some people get different answers to those frustrating viral maths problems. You need to learn how to "read" the maths.
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Marc in het Panhuis, University of Wollongong; Andrew Warren, University of Wollongong; Buyung Kosasih, University of Wollongong; Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong; Dr Stephen Beirne, University of Wollongong; Julie Steele, University of Wollongong
3D printing looms as a gamechanger for the surfing industry as surfboard and fin technology become increasingly high-tech.
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Education
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Emma Rowe, Deakin University
If we look at enrolment figures for public secondary schools, it's untrue to say the steady drift towards private schools has been reversed.
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Featured jobs
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