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How health checks pick up problems for the over-40s
Open Forum | July 4, 2019Seeing a health professional for a full health screening – even when you feel healthy – from around age 40 enables people to make changes when problems first start to occur.
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HR is failing workers with intellectual disabilities
Open Forum | July 3, 2019Experts are calling for a major rethink of how businesses manage workers with intellectual disabilities, with new research showing they’re often left behind in the workplace.
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Medical ‘selfies’ can boost patient care
Open Forum | July 1, 2019Taking medical ‘selfies’ and sharing them with a doctor empowers and reassures healthcare consumers, and can improve doctor-patient relationships, a two-part QUT-led study has found.
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New discovery may help cut agricultural methane emissions
Open Forum | June 30, 2019An international research collaboration has made an important discovery in the quest to help lower global agricultural methane emissions.
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The problems of policing the post-Christchurch internet
Open Forum | June 29, 2019The Australian Parliament has passed legislation to punish social media platforms showing violent videos, but is the reaction to the Christchurch massacre right in principle and can it be effective in practice?
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Affordable rental housing policy not delivering for low income earners
Open Forum | June 29, 2019A report by UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre finds planning policy is delivering micro-apartments for students and young professionals rather than affordable housing for low income families.
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Staying active after 40 helps keep you alive
Open Forum | June 28, 2019Keeping physically active or becoming more active during middle and older age is associated with a lower risk of death, regardless of past activity levels or existing health conditions, according to international research.
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Kids cartwheel to better mental health
Open Forum | June 26, 2019“Circus takes your mind off some things…sad things…it’s my weekly pick-up and sort of an escape.”
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Australia can learn from New Zealand’s older workforce
Open Forum | June 25, 2019There’s a lot we can learn from the Kiwis about how we keep our older employees in the workforce, according to an Edith Cowan University workplace expert.
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A cultural shift helps safeguard the reef
Open Forum | June 23, 2019The tourist industry on the Great Barrier Reef is being encouraged to use a novel low-cost device to help secure coral fragments to the reef.
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Sharks v humans – Who’s the real predator?
Open Forum | June 22, 2019Changing the way in which sharks are portrayed, and the way in which the risks are exaggerated and presented to people, is a vital step in saving these magnificent creatures from destruction by man.
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Facebook’s new crush on its users
Open Forum | June 21, 2019The social media giant is entering the dating app market, but will it be seen as yet another invasion of privacy or a fun way to help shy people get together?