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Portable units and temporary leases free up vacant land for urgent housing needs

  • Written by Katrina Raynor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, University of Melbourne
imageThe Ballarat Road project in Maidstone and Footscray, Melbourne, will transform vacant land into housing for people at risk of homelessness.Schored Architects, Author provided

An innovative project designed to house people at risk of homelessness will soon deliver 57 transportable homes across nine sites in Melbourne’s inner west. Victorian...

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What causes breast cancer in women? What we know, don't know and suspect

  • Written by Andrew Redfern, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
imageDifferent people have very different chances of being diagnosed with breast cancer.Pablo Heimplatz/Unsplash

This is a long read. Enjoy!


Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second-most-common cause of death from cancer. Although the chances of curing breast cancer have risen recently, efforts to prevent occurrence in...

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'Successful failures' – the problem with food banks

  • Written by Nick Rose, Lecturer, William Angliss Institute
imagePasta and bolognese sauce were on the menu provided at this Sydney venue by not-for-profit organisation Foodbank.

From their inception in the early 1990s, Australian food banks were supposed to be a temporary solution to food poverty.

They have since morphed from “emergency to industry” – lauded for reducing food insecurity and...

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Support for standardised tests boils down to beliefs about who benefits from it

  • Written by John Munro, Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
imageTo make sure we get the most out of education, we may need to both broaden our narrative about standardised testing and try to minimise its negative influences.Shutterstock

Since it was introduced in the 1800s, standardised testing in Australian schools has attracted controversy and divided opinion. In this series, we examine its pros and cons,...

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  1. Three ways robots can save lives in war
  2. Labor increases Newspoll lead to 55-45% as Shorten moves within striking distance as better PM
  3. Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls
  4. Coalition loses majority after Alexander resigns. Qld polling and preferences
  5. From Public Confessions to Public Trials: The Complexities of the Weinstein Effect
  6. Extreme right Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexual encounter with 14-y/o girl
  7. Liberal John Alexander likely to quit imminently
  8. Explainer: what exactly is a living wage?
  9. Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups?
  10. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the never-ending citizenship crisis
  11. Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?
  12. Flowers, remembrance and the art of war
  13. Brian Cox is a world record holding 'rockstar scientist'. Here's why
  14. UN slams Australia’s human rights record
  15. How the 'Warwick egg incident' of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided
  16. Some remote Australian communities have drinking water for only nine hours a day
  17. Why children need to be taught to think critically about Remembrance Day
  18. Friday essay: Mapplethorpe and me
  19. Vital Signs: business conditions are peachy, so why aren't businesses investing?
  20. Sharing economy sounds caring, but let's put it to the ethical city test
  21. Those noisy crested pigeons use their unique feathers to sound an alarm
  22. Can 'brown fat' really help with weight loss?
  23. Sharkie told by Turnbull she may have to go to High Court
  24. Grattan on Friday: Voters just want citizenship crisis fixed – but it isn't that easy
  25. Politics podcast: swinging into the Sunshine State's election
  26. Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
  27. We made great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancer
  28. Could we nationalise the superannuation system even if we wanted to?
  29. The ACCC investigation into the NBN will be useful. But it's too little, too late
  30. Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars?
  31. Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
  32. Princes, power and purges: the Saudi royal family consolidates its rule
  33. Australian companies should cultivate local tech workers not play the 457 visa game
  34. Islands lost to the waves: how rising seas washed away part of Micronesia's 19th-century history
  35. If Queenslanders vote on economic issues the Labor government is looking good
  36. Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
  37. As we remember the Russian revolution, The Death of Stalin reminds us of its brutal apogee
  38. As Socceroos face moment of truth, let's remember our football triumph of 1967
  39. Simplistic advice for teachers on how to teach won't work
  40. What causes SIDS? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  41. Movies and TV choose to tell us different stories about the cities of today
  42. Dems easily win Virginia and New Jersey governors. Left gains control of Tas upper house
  43. Turnbull and Shorten haggle over detail of citizenship disclosure system
  44. Australia might water down illegal logging laws – here's why it's a bad idea
  45. How the Paradise Papers reveal the tension between rock stars and the tax man
  46. Health Check: which sports supplements actually work?
  47. From selfie to infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s amazing technicoloured dreamscape
  48. It's time for a royal commission into banking regulation
  49. Closing Uluru to climbers is better for tourism in the long run
  50. You may be sick of worrying about online privacy, but 'surveillance apathy' is also a problem

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