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Editor's note
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Last night Liberal MPs rejected a push for a free vote on same-sex marriage and renewed their commitment to pursue a plebiscite. If that fails, as appears likely, the next step appears to be a postal ballot. But, as Michelle Grattan writes, that’s likely to be met with a legal challenge from marriage equality advocates.
In other news, fewer men are teaching at Australian primary schools, despite the many initiatives to attract them to the sector. Vaughan Cruickshank says schools that want to retain male teachers should help them cope with the gender-based challenges they face, such as uncertainty about physical contact with students.
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Men often leave teaching because of the gender-related challenges they face.
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Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania
The continuing decline in the numbers of male primary school teachers suggests more attention needs to be placed on retaining those already in the profession.
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Politics + Society
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Jennifer Chesters, University of Melbourne
If the gap between the wealth of the billionaires and that of the average residents continues to widen dramatically, there is likely to be discontent.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
If the Senate as expected rejects the same-sex marriage plebiscite again, the government will move to a voluntary postal ballot.
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Laura McVey, Deakin University; Paul Harrison, Deakin University
While getting more woman to take part in sport is a laudable achievement, it would be better if the campaign also helped free them from the objectification of the dominant male gaze.
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John Scott, Queensland University of Technology
The car, the phone and the internet have changed the way the sex work industry operates, but debates about regulation have not advanced with new technologies.
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Business + Economy
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Edwin Ip, University of Melbourne
The effect of gender quotas on an organisation's performance depends on employee's attitude towards quotas, which in turn depends on the labour market environment.
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Caron Beaton-Wells, University of Melbourne
The successful prosecution of the first criminal cartel case may be seen as a vindication of the decision to criminalise cartel conduct.
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Cities
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Michael Buxton, RMIT University
Victoria offers lessons in the benefits of integrating metropolitan and regional planning, using regional rail to shrink distance and ease the pressures of growth on our big capital cities.
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Arts + Culture
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Blythe Worthy, University of Sydney
Jane Campion's second series of Top of the Lake, which premiered in Melbourne at the weekend, is an ominous, lyrical, genre-bending exploration of the sex trade.
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Health + Medicine
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Patricia Davidson, Johns Hopkins University
Heart disease has long been considered a man's condition. Our ignorance of its impact on women has led to gaps in outcomes for men and women suffering the same condition.
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Susan Miles, University of Newcastle
We're seeing the resurgence of an old lung disease in people who make and install the type of engineered stone product you might find in your kitchen or bathroom.
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Science + Technology
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Christofer Clemente, University of the Sunshine Coast; Peter Bishop, Griffith University
The footprints of dinosaurs can tell a lot about how they moved about many millions of years ago.
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