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Black lung's back? How we became complacent with coal miners' pneumoconiosis

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageBlack lung used to be commonplace among coal miners, and is now on the rise again. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The name black lung says it all. When miners inhale excessive amounts of coal dust, the fine air filtration system of the lungs sieves out the dust, which then remains permanently in the lung. These deposits can even be seen with the...

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How the deficit obsession is eroding the budget's usefulness

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

When government administrations change we can expect a change in the political spin, but anyone who has studied Commonwealth budgets over the years will have noticed something far more significant than swings between Labor and Coalition priorities. There has been a slow shift in the way governments explain their budgetary priorities.

Over many...

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Turnbull warns of growing cyber aggression

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Australian public and private sector organisations and individuals are facing malicious cyber activity that is unprecedented in scale and reach, Malcolm Turnbull warns in the government’s new cyber security strategy, launched on Thursday.

“Australia and Australians are targets for malicious actors – including serious and organised...

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  2. Why the 60 Minutes shambles is unlikely to be a one-off incident
  3. Turnbull should help the states switch stamp duty for land tax
  4. Hidden housemates: when possums go bump in the night
  5. How might Big Tobacco react to a rise in cigarette excise?
  6. Morrison warns banks not to pass on new 'user-pays' impost to finance ASIC reform
  7. Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
  8. Weekly Dose: St John's Wort, the flower that can treat depression
  9. Politics podcast: Sarah Ferguson on The Killing Season uncut
  10. Beyond the icon: despite a construction boom, Australian skyscraper design needs to evolve
  11. Wood's decision to keep all her prize money reflects the values of the Stella
  12. Economists should step out of their bubble more often
  13. Big business doesn't want to talk about it, but SMEs lose from a company tax cut
  14. Government must boost attendance rates in early education
  15. Ideas for Australia: bipartisanship on immigration does little to counter racism, suspicion and division
  16. Ideas for Australia: City v4.0, a new model of urban growth and governance for Australia
  17. Palm oil politics impede sustainability in Southeast Asia
  18. In remembering Anzac Day, what do we forget?
  19. Exercise can improve cancer recovery and reduce health-care costs
  20. Budget explainer: commodity prices and the federal budget
  21. The first fossilised heart ever found in a prehistoric animal
  22. In election countdown, Turnbull has to juggle 'governing' and 'campaigning'
  23. Politics podcast: Angus Taylor on cities and digital transformation
  24. Was Tasmania's summer of fires and floods a glimpse of its climate future?
  25. Interstellar travel, galactic cannibalism and Martian beer
  26. How to improve research training in Australia – give industry placements to PhD students
  27. The argumentum ad whingeum: an idea whose time can't pass quick enough
  28. Welcome to the Bill and Malcolm show
  29. What's behind Timor-Leste's approach to solving the Timor Sea dispute?
  30. Not everyone who takes painkillers for fun is an addict; some have just found a different way to cope
  31. Are the Japanese and Ecuador earthquakes related?
  32. First sentences establish a contract with the reader about what is to come.
  33. Countries should put women at the forefront of the UN drug policy debate
  34. Balancing the budget mantra overlooks benefits of infrastructure spending
  35. Explainer: the road to a July 2 double-dissolution election
  36. Nature is neglected in this election campaign – at its and our own peril
  37. Marx, Freud, Hitler, Mandela, Greer... Shakespeare influenced them all
  38. Explainer: what autoimmune disorder is newly linked to Zika?
  39. Australians may not be motivated by racism when it comes to Chinese investment
  40. Budget explainer: the problem with measuring productivity
  41. Australia's first robotic help in a hip replacement operation
  42. What it is like to be a bee: insects can teach us about the origins of consciousness
  43. Why ‘Uber for women’ is not discriminatory
  44. Turnbull looks like a sprinter but is in a marathon
  45. A precarious geological bargain
  46. It's certain – Australians off to the polls on July 2 for double dissolution
  47. Should we release the deadly carp virus into our rivers and water supplies?
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