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Setting the record straight on home births
Miranda Davies-Tuck | May 10, 2019More women are choosing to give birth at home, and Victoria has become the first state to issue guidelines on the trend to clinicians and health professionals.
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Big tech is the real threat to online safety
David Watts | May 9, 2019Vague proposals to protect the public from online harm won’t win Scott Morrison the election, and don’t address the main threat to the public online – the predatory business models of Silicon Valley.
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Coral research reveals changes in El Niño
Open Forum | May 9, 2019Australian scientists have used cores drilled from coral to produce a 400-year long seasonal record of El Niño events which reveals the worrying extent of recent changes.
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The growing spectre of domestic food insecurity
Sue Kleve | May 9, 2019A million Australians worry about where their next meal is coming from and additional help is required to prevent more people falling off the “food security tightrope”.
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All image, no vision
Mark Kenny | May 8, 2019Scott Morrison ditched the hat, and Bill Shorten started smiling more, but it hasn’t helped either candidate generate genuine charisma. Australia’s image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary Federal election campaign.
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It’s time to pin the blame for the Parliament hack
Michael Shoebridge | May 8, 2019Whoever becomes prime minister after the election will face a sobering moment in Australia’s China policy.
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The Pacific can be more than a ‘nursery’ for Australian exporters
Lori Youmshajekian | May 8, 2019The Pacific Islands are a strategic playing field for Australian exporters before expanding to Asia and beyond, but Australian policymakers should also respect the economic independence of Pacific nations, according to UNSW expert Tim Harcourt.
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Facing up to the global extinction crisis
Michelle Lim | May 7, 2019We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history. Nearly a million species face extinction if we do not fundamentally change our relationship with the natural world, according to the world’s largest assessment of biodiversity.
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Sydney’s hidden housing problem
Open Forum | May 7, 2019A new report released by the Sydney Policy Lab has found low income and vulnerable groups are being forced into informal and sometimes illegal housing arrangements, due to a lack of affordable alternatives.
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Cricket balls and “shadow values”
Benjamin Day | May 7, 2019Like the Cameron Bancroft and Steven Smith ball tampering scandal, Australia’s foreign aid spending exemplifies the disconnect between our rhetoric and the reality of who we are and what we value as a nation.
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The fight to stamp out student cheating
Phillip Dawson | May 6, 2019A host of online essay mills openly advertise their services to help students cheat on their assignments. Stamping out such scams and protecting academic integrity and honest students won’t be easy, but it must be done.
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Improving conditions in aged care
Open Forum | May 6, 2019A new report has called for urgent reform of the working conditions in the aged care sector, which will address the shocking stories emerging from the aged care royal commission.
