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Editor's note
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Unemployment is high in regional Queensland and has doubled in many areas over the past few years. But the focus on “mega projects” like the Adani coal mine, building roads and new power plants doesn’t address the problem, writes John Cole.
Research shows these projects bring only a temporary employment boost, and do little to enhance skills or create enduring local businesses. What regional Queensland needs is investment in skills that will create small businesses and local incomes.
And a major survey of professional artists in Australia has found the gender pay gap is wider in the arts than in other industries. As David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya write, the average female artist earned just $15,400 from her creative work in 2014-15, while the average male artist earned $22,100.
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Josh Nicholas
Deputy Editor: Business + Economy
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Top story
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Most of the jobs in regional Queensland’s mega projects are only temporary.
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John Cole, University of Southern Queensland
The big ticket resources projects of the past decade have not delivered as hoped for regional Queensland. New approaches are needed.
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Business + Economy
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Joshua Healy, University of Melbourne; Andreas Pekarek, University of Melbourne
The ACTU has proposed Australia adopt a "living wage". This might improve the incomes of some people, but it wouldn't solve "working poverty".
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Arts + Culture
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David Throsby, Macquarie University; Katya Petetskaya, Macquarie University
The average Australian female artist is better educated than her male counterpart but earns significantly less than him, new research shows. And artists' incomes are declining in real terms.
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Ann Elias, University of Sydney
The wildflowers that WWI soldiers encountered in Europe become symbols of remembrance and the fragility of life. The red poppy in particular is a powerful motif in Australian war art and photography.
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Politics + Society
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Roderic Broadhurst, Australian National University; David Lord, Australian National University
Small quantities of drugs are getting past customs and then being used to create much bigger batches of illegal drugs like synthetic heroin.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The government has always looked to this measure to argue Turnbull's strength against Shorten, even in the face of the bad two-party results.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Undecided voters are dismayed by the quality of Queensland's political leadership.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
John Alexander is expected to resign over the weekend, becoming the latest MP to be claimed by the dual citizenship crisis.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra; Deep Saini, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
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Anna Cody, UNSW; Maria Nawaz, UNSW
The UN report findings show that concerns far outweigh any improvements in Australia's human rights record.
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Cities
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Katrina Raynor, University of Melbourne
An innovative collaboration between government, a non-profit group and philanthropists has found a way to provide urgently needed housing on land that would otherwise be left vacant for years.
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Health + Medicine
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Andrew Redfern, University of Western Australia; Rik Thompson, Queensland University of Technology
There is usually no one factor that causes breast cancer. It's likely a combination of the effects of a person's risks combined with an element of bad luck.
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Heather Douglas, The University of Queensland
In the last few years, significant resources have been devoted to changing attitudes towards domestic violence – so why aren’t the numbers going down?
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Environment + Energy
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Nick Rose, William Angliss Institute; Susan Booth, Flinders University
Foodbanks were originally established as a temporary measure to alleviate food insecurity. But have they become an excuse for governments not to deal properly with the problem?
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Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University
BHP has distanced itself from moves to strip environment groups of their tax deductibility status. Why does the Big Australian see value in defending them?
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Education
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John Munro, Australian Catholic University
The use of standardised testing is a divisive topic, and most of the disagreement comes down to beliefs about whether using it to control education is a good or bad thing.
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Science + Technology
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Sean Welsh
Robots are a twin-edged sword. Used badly, they may one day perpetrate genocide and war crimes. Used well, they can prevent them.
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Merryn McKinnon, Australian National University
Packed venues, rock star status. What makes some scientists so damned marketable?
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