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How to build self-control by copying others
Sabine Doebel | August 6, 2018Self-control can appear an inborn trait but identifying with people who display it can help build our own willpower too.
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Ham and eggs: who’s really committed in the Indo-Pacific?
John Powers | August 6, 2018When you cook bacon and eggs, you know the chicken is interested but the pig is committed. The same could be said about the Pacific region. Some nations are committed. Others have an interest, but only in those areas that deliver outcomes to their specific national objectives.
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Doctors’ fees shouldn’t just be transparent, they should be fair and reasonable
Stephen Duckett | August 6, 2018Out-of-pocket costs are a hot-button issue for Australian health consumers. Fees should be transparent, but that’s not good enough. Doctors, and especially specialists, should also be required to set fees that are “fair and reasonable”, rather than exploit the public.
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The ‘great Australian silence’ 50 years on
Anna Clark | August 5, 2018It’s 50 years since the anthropologist WEH Stanner gave the 1968 Boyer Lectures — a watershed moment for Australian history. Stanner argued that Australia’s sense of its past, its very collective memory, had been built on a state of forgetting, which couldn’t “be explained by absent mindedness”.
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Breakthrough in stem cell therapy for cystic fibrosis
Open Forum | August 5, 2018The fight against cystic fibrosis has taken a major step forward, with pioneering research by University of Adelaide scientists showing that cells causing the debilitating genetic disorder could be successfully replaced with healthy ones.
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City-slicker kiwis: bringing natives back to the big smoke
Open Forum | August 5, 2018Restoring New Zealand’s native species should not be limited to national parks or isolated islands of protection – creatures like kiwi, bats, and tuatara could also be reintroduced into suitably prepared urban areas.
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Teaching your child to cope
Erica Frydenberg | August 4, 2018Children are not immune to the stresses and pressures of modern life but coping skills to improve their ability to cope can be encouraged by their parents and teachers. With depression rates on the rise among young people, learning them is more important than ever.
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Australia’s space agency needs certainty
Brett Biddington | August 4, 2018The Australian Space Agency, led by Dr Megan Clark AC, officially opened for business at the start of July. How will it help develop the fledgling domestic space industry?
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Whatever happened to the ‘eighth wonder of the world’?
Open Forum | August 4, 2018The fate of the spectacular Pink and White Terraces of Lake Rotomahana in New Zealand has been contentious since they disappeared following the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera. New research may hold the answer.
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Developing data rights for all Australians
James Arvanitakis | August 3, 2018It is time to examine the strengths and limitations of the Australian approach to data security and what other structures might be required to protect consumers in an ever more data-centric economy.
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A roadmap for reining in big tech
Fergus Ryan | August 3, 2018Social media platforms have finally been harassed into actually doing something about the harmful externalities their services are creating, but what more can be done to safeguard their users and the rest of society?
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Why the plastic bag backflip is a bad idea
Open Forum | August 3, 2018Supermarket Coles has backflipped on its vow to dump single-use plastic bags saying customers aren’t coping with the change to reusable bags. Six experts explain why it’s a bad idea
