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Melbourne home to global business education hub
1 May 2013

Melbourne now boasts one of the Asia Pacific’s most comprehensive business education precincts, as a ground-breaking collaboration between the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business and Economics and Melbourne Business School takes full effect today.

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Australian migrant kids "more trusting"
27 April 2013

The children of migrants to Australia are more trusting than those whose parents settled in America, University of Melbourne research has found.

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Five Fatal Flaws that could undermine the Gonski Report
17 April 2013

The Gonski Report rests on five faulty assumptions that will undermine its usefulness as a cornerstone of Australian education policy, a study from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research has found.

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Workplace discrimination cuts deep across Australia: report
30 March 2013

Nearly a million Australians feel their boss has discriminated against them over recent years, a new University of Melbourne study has found.

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Dr Pradeep Taneja on China's new president Xi Jinping's 'friendship tour'
27 March 2013
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Drugs and sport
8 February 2013

Dr Mike Pottinger spoke to Sky News about the role of organised crime groups in the use of illicit drugs in sport.

A political science, economics and finance lecturer, Dr Pottenger (@Mike_Pottenger) completed a PhD on the international political economy of corruption and organised crime.


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Aussies splurged stimulus cheques on the pokies, but squirreled away carbon tax compo
5 February 2013

Australians decided not to gamble away last year's carbon tax compensation payments and hoarded them instead, a University of Melbourne study has found.

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Poor evaluations undermining public policy initiatives: report
5 February 2013

Governments are making decisions based on incomplete information and evidence that's often not subjected to adequate scrutiny, a Policy Brief prepared by the University of Melbourne has warned.

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China's One-Child Policy creates a generation of "Little Emperors"
11 January 2013

China¹s contentious one-child policy has produced a generation of untrusting and over-sensitive "Little Emperors", new research has found.

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Beware Christmas shoppers, online first impressions can fool you
14 December 2012

Internet shoppers are more likely to buy if the first product review they encounter is a positive one even if subsequent reviews aren't as flattering, new University of Melbourne research has found

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