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Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform

  • Written by: Sebastian Rosenberg, Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University

Recent changes to private mental health insurance offer the prospect of lower premiums and reduced waiting periods, though the magnitude of these benefits is disputed. Travel and accommodation assistance will now be available to help people from rural and remote areas find mental health care. This is critical because the vast majority of private...

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Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react

  • Written by: Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University

The federal government has announced a new energy policy, after deciding against adopting the Clean Energy Target recommended by chief scientist Alan Finkel.

The new plan, called the National Energy Guarantee, will require electricity retailers to make a certain amount of “dispatchable” power available at all times, and also to reduce...

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Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?

  • Written by: Wayne Iwan Lee Davies, Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia
imageIt's all about evolution.Flickr/myri_bonnie, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!

Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different...

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  1. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  2. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  3. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  4. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  5. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  6. Why craft beer is going corporate
  7. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  8. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  9. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  10. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  11. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  12. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  13. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  14. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  15. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  16. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  17. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  18. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  19. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  20. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  21. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  22. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  23. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  24. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  25. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  26. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  27. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  28. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  29. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  30. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  31. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  32. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  33. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  34. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  35. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  36. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  37. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  38. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  39. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  40. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  41. How Melbourne's west was greened
  42. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  43. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  44. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  45. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  46. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC
  47. Why Trump's decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake
  48. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition leads 52-48 as One Nation slumps. Xenophon tied or ahead in SA's Hartley
  49. Shorten promises $1 billion fund to finance manufacturing enterprises
  50. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government reneging on a clean energy target

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