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Editor's note
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Taxi competitor Uber is changing the way it calculates fares, charging people based on their “willingness to pay”. This could mean you pay more depending on factors like what suburb you are travelling to. But as Jordi McKenzie writes, this kind of pricing is common, and could actually be a win-win for Uber and its customers.
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Josh Nicholas
Deputy Editor Business & Economy
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Uber is changing the way it calculatess fares.
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Jordi McKenzie, Macquarie University
Charging consumers different prices for the same service is actually a very common practice called "price discrimination".
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Peter Wells, University of Technology Sydney
The current retirement system is unsustainable. We could learn from the way higher education is funded.
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Environment + Energy
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Amandine Denis, Monash University
Better energy management could reduce peak demand by the equivalent of two Hazelwood power stations. It's time to get serious about demand response solutions to our energy crisis.
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Arts + Culture
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Bernice Loh, Monash University
YouTube is awash with videos on beauty and fashion, and young girls are avidly watching, creating powerful social media figures in the process.
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Science + Technology
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Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology
Star Wars was a swashbuckling space fantasy that inspired some of the technology we see today, four decades after the film's release.
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Suranga Seneviratne, Data61; Dali Kaafar, Data61
Name almost any app. Your data is probably being tracked.
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Sara Khalifa, Data61; Dali Kaafar, Data61
From power walks to silly walks, we can use our movement to generate energy in a way that is unique to everyone. And that can be used to help secure our wearable technology.
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Health + Medicine
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Richard Murray, James Cook University; Brendan Crotty, Deakin University
Doctors experience higher levels of suicide and mental distress than their non-medical peers. Why? And what can we do about it?
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Ying Sun, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
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Cities
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Education
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Geoff Sharrock, University of Melbourne
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Politics + Society
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Roy Hay, Deakin University
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Labor is 'taking a bit of time' before announcing its position on the company tax cuts, Chris Bowen says.
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Braham Dabscheck, University of Melbourne
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation; Lucinda Beaman, The Conversation
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