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Five myths about Australian university graduate outcomes

  • Written by: Omer Yezdani, Director, Office of Planning and Strategic Management, Australian Catholic University
imageWhile securing a stable job is essential, dismissing the qualitative experience of learning and its extraordinary benefits is reductive.Shutterstock

Universities are vital to Australia’s sustained prosperity. However, the complexity of our current higher education policy landscape, combined with profound economic forces, have led to a number...

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Queensland election: One Nation dominates Twitter debate in the final weeks

  • Written by: Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

As Queensland approaches its election day on Saturday, the social media campaign for votes continues alongside. But over the final two weeks, the focus of that campaign has gradually shifted.

Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s plan to veto a potential A$1 billion loan to the Adani mine project resulted in a considerable drop in...

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Is apple cider vinegar really a wonder food?

  • Written by: Rosemary Stanton, Nutritionist & Visiting Fellow, UNSW
imageIt makes a tasty dressing, but the health claims are overblown.Madeleine Steinbach/Shutterstock

Folk medicine has favoured apple cider vinegar for centuries and many claims are made for its supposed benefits.

Apple cider vinegar is made by chopping apples, covering them with water and leaving them at room temperature until the natural sugars ferment...

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Weekly Dose: Champix's effectiveness is questionable and safety record is concerning

  • Written by: Ross MacKenzie, Lecturer in Health Studies, Macquarie University
imageSmoking cessation aid Champix has been linked to suicides. from www.shutterstock.com

Champix was developed by drug company Pfizer as a smoking cessation treatment in 1997. Its active ingredient, varenicline, can block the effects of nicotine and reduce craving. It was approved for use in Australia in 2007.

It’s commonly prescribed in...

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  1. Energy ministers' power policy pow-wow is still driven more by headlines than details
  2. Friday essay: why grown-ups still need fairy tales
  3. Conservative Christians need to stamp out clergy wife abuse - starting with ending endemic sexism
  4. More and more older Australians will be homeless unless we act now
  5. Evidence-based education needs standardised assessment
  6. The Queensland government is paying more for its debt than the average mortgage holder
  7. Vital Signs: five economic red flags to watch for in 2018
  8. We learn from our mistakes: how to make better predictions from tweets
  9. Grattan on Friday: Discovery of the cabinet leaker would present bigger problem than the leak
  10. Foreign Policy White Paper finally acknowledges world power is shifting
  11. Australia's Foreign Policy White Paper offers more wishful thinking than concrete ideas
  12. Experiments in robotics could help Amazon beat Australia's slow delivery problem
  13. No, we aren't running out of new ideas
  14. Australia is hedging its bets on China with the latest Foreign Policy White Paper
  15. Muriel's Wedding: the Musical is a deeply satisfying tribute to Australia's most-loved dag
  16. With a few smart moves, we can relieve the pressure on gas
  17. Blood on the stage: Let the Right One In is a vampire love story for our times
  18. The six-month amendment could defeat the purpose of Victoria's assisted dying bill
  19. Why we need to end impunity for sexual violence in armed conflict
  20. Ratko Mladic, the 'Butcher of Bosnia', to spend life in prison for genocide and war crimes
  21. The off-topic Conversation #142
  22. Voters see through Turnbull, but cool on Shorten: Queensland research
  23. City-wide trial shows how road use charges can reduce traffic jams
  24. Our obsession with infant growth charts may be fuelling childhood obesity
  25. New research suggests common herbicides are linked to antibiotic resistance
  26. If Beazley had become prime minister instead of Rudd, might we have had more stable government?
  27. Standardised tests limit students with disability
  28. Guide to the Classics: Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars explores vice and virtue in ancient Rome
  29. Public investment in electricity generation – a hot-button issue in Queensland?
  30. Citizenship crisis claims Nick Xenophon Team's Kakoschke-Moore
  31. Why good design alone won't attract millennials to your company
  32. Protecting religious freedoms is a matter of balance, says head of Turnbull's inquiry
  33. FactCheck: does the Safe Schools program contain 'highly explicit material'?
  34. Which square is bigger? Honeybees see visual illusions like humans do
  35. Infographic: here's exactly what Adani's Carmichael mine means for Queensland
  36. Curious Kids: Why are fern leaves shaped the way they are, and are all ferns identical?
  37. Why scientific monitoring of the effects of industry on our priceless WA rock art is inadequate
  38. Young Australians will wear the costs of Turnbull's middle income tax cut
  39. Foreign ownership of housing – how do Australia and New Zealand compare?
  40. We're drafting a legal guide to war in space. Hopefully we'll never need to use it
  41. Standardised tests are culturally biased against rural students
  42. Will microdermabrasion or skin needling give me better skin?
  43. Do we need a new offence to protect victims of family violence from psychological harm?
  44. Turnbull wants to take middle income earners' income tax both up and down
  45. Research Check: will a coffee a day really keep heart attacks at bay?
  46. What's Australia made of? Geologically, it depends on the state you're in
  47. The concept of 'western civilisation' is past its use-by date in university humanities departments
  48. New Zealand experience shows same-sex marriage could provide huge economic boost for Australia
  49. 'Finkel's new energy report' isn't new and it isn't by Finkel
  50. Facts sink glib housing supply mantra – the focus must be on affordable rental

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