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Editor's note
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It may seem obvious that people living in the bush do it tough, but new research from the Grattan Institute argues overall, country dwellers aren’t faring worse than their city cousins. Grattan looked at income and unemployment across Australia and found the divide isn’t that big after all, so it’s not likely to be income and employment driving dissatisfaction among regional voters.
And today our Politics + Society intern Sophie Heizer presents a series on sex work law reform. To begin the series, Cheryl Overs explains how laws governing sex work are complex and differ between states or local governments and from country to country. Look out for articles later in the week on the technology, feminism and stigma associated with ‘the world’s oldest profession’.
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Jenni Henderson
Editor, Business and Economy
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The absolute level of income tends to be higher in the cities than the regions - but this has always been so.
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John Daley, Grattan Institute; Carmela Chivers, Grattan Institute; Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute
New research released today by the Grattan Institute shows that income growth and unemployment rates are not obviously worse in regional areas.
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Politics + Society
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Cheryl Overs, Monash University
Understanding laws that govern sex work can be complicated and confusing, especially because laws are not uniform globally, or even within each country.
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Michelle Smith, Deakin University
As soon as next year, TV ads in the UK that perpetuate gender stereotypes or mock those who don't conform to them will be banned. Should Australia follow suit?
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Joel Penney, Montclair State University
Each individual act of posting, linking, commenting and liking may look insignificant up close, but they add up. There is enormous power here for mass persuasion, one viral share at a time.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The five Liberal rebels are not ruling out crossing the floor to try to force a parliamentary vote.
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Arts + Culture
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Chris Mackie, La Trobe University
A central idea in the Iliad - a poetic work focused on the war for Troy - is the inevitability of death. The poem held a special place in antiquity, and has resonated in the millennia since.
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Health + Medicine
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Benjamin Cowie, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity; James Ward, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute; Steven Tong, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Hepatitis B rates in Indigenous communities are ten times higher than the rest of Australia. Eliminating the infection from Indigenous Australia can make a significant contribution to closing the gap.
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Julaine Allan, Charles Sturt University
At higher doses ketamine is used to induce a trance-like state, sedate people with burns or other traumatic injuries, or as an anaesthetic to perform short operations.
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Science + Technology
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Wanning Sun, University of Technology Sydney
Streaming video is exploding in China, but regulators are trying to keep control.
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Ceridwen Fraser, Australian National University
The closest relative of Kangaroo Island's trapdoor spider lives in South Africa - and the arachnid could have arrived in Australia by oceanic migration.
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Oliver Griffith, Yale University
A new evolutionary perspective on what's been a medical paradox: Why does the body use inflammation to regulate aspects of pregnancy when inflammation is also a big threat to pregnancy?
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Julian Thomas, RMIT University
The 2017 Australian Digital Inclusion Index shows that internet access and digital ability have improved since 2014, but the affordability of online services has declined.
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Cities
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Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne; Deborah Warr, University of Melbourne
Even where communities are mixed, many inner-city families go to extraordinary financial and geographic lengths to ensure their children do not go to school with children from 'the flats'.
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Environment + Energy
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Jason Alexandra, RMIT University; Paul Martin, University of New England
Allegations of water theft have thrown the Murray-Darling Basin Plan into crisis. The solution could involve users declaring their annual water use, subject to random audits - like a tax return.
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Andrew Blakers, Australian National University
Solar PV and wind energy have overtaken coal as the leading sources of new electricity generation worldwide, with falling prices and new storage technologies making clean energy ever more attainable.
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Michael Hopkin, The Conversation
Australia is not investing enough in climate monitoring capabilities, potentially leaving farmers and other vulnerable communities high and dry when trying to access crucial weather information.
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Business + Economy
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Peter Whiteford, Australian National University
The two major sources of data show conflicting trends on income inequality.
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