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Alcohol increases cancer risk, but don't trust the booze industry to give you the facts straight

  • Written by: Terry Slevin, Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University; Education and Research Director, Cancer Council WA; Chair, Occupational and Environmental Cancer Committee, Cancer Council Australia
imageWe've known for over three decades that cancer risk increases with alcohol consumption.from shutterstock.com

The alcohol industry has been misleading the public about the real link between alcohol and cancer, with tactics similar to those used by the tobacco industry. This is the finding from research published today in the Drug and Alcohol Review j...

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The postal survey is both bizarre and typical in the history of Western marriage

  • Written by: Timothy W. Jones, Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
imageMarriage reform of any kind has been historically slow to take hold.Shutterstock

The High Court’s decision to allow exceptional government spending on the marriage postal survey makes way for the latest bizarre, but typical, episode in the history of political responses to changing social attitudes to marriage.

The voluntary postal survey is...

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The true cost of keeping the Liddell power plant open

  • Written by: Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University

For a long time, Australian governments have believed that the private sector should run the electricity sector. And successive governments have used market instruments to incentivise reducing emissions, by supporting renewables, discouraging coal use, or both.

Now things seem inside out: uncertainty about energy policy mechanisms is pervasive, and...

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Friday essay: why libraries can and must change

  • Written by: Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor of Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageNew technologies are taking books and libraries to places that are, as yet, unimaginable.Shutterstock

There is a chapter towards the end of Stuart Kells’s The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders, in which the author envisions the library of the future as one in which “dreary hordes of students” stare mindlessly at “computers and...

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  2. How to stop businesses stealing from their employees
  3. Police want to read encrypted messages, but they already have significant power to access our data
  4. How the NDIS is using the market to create housing for people with disability
  5. For long-term improvements, schools need to slow down
  6. Grattan on Friday – Turnbull's rush for an energy 'announceable' sows confusion
  7. Grief, loss, and a glimmer of hope: Josephine Wilson wins the 2017 Miles Franklin prize for Extinctions
  8. What would it take to raise Australian productivity growth?
  9. APRA needs to protect whistleblowers in the CBA inquiry
  10. The off-topic Conversation #135
  11. High Court dismisses challenge, so Australia is off to the (postal) polls on same-sex marriage
  12. High Court gives go-ahead for marriage ballot
  13. Remembering Rhonda Senbergs: friend, art-world insider, unsung star
  14. Assassination by pacemaker: Australia needs to do more to regulate internet-connected medical devices
  15. Taking control of who gets to send us news
  16. FactCheck: are children 'better off' with a mother and father than with same-sex parents?
  17. Just ten MPs represent more than 600 threatened species in their electorates
  18. When it comes to North Korea, China is happy to make Trump squirm
  19. How the 'tyranny of distance' affects the Australian economy
  20. Poisoned water holes: the legal dangers of dark web policing
  21. We need a radical rethink of how to attract more teachers to rural schools
  22. People take to their bikes when we make it safer and easier for them
  23. Medical schools are shaking off a dark past by honouring people who donate their bodies to science
  24. Heart-warming, biting, tragic, funny: the Miles Franklin shortlist will move you
  25. Tony Abbott: Consider burqa ban in places dedicated to Australian values
  26. Coal and the Coalition: the policy knot that still won't untie
  27. Are you part of a social group? Making sure you are will improve your health
  28. The day Australia was put on blackout alert
  29. The beauty and mystery of Saturn's rings revealed by the Cassini mission
  30. In spite of their differences, Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God
  31. Australians may well love their sport, but why don't we delight in success elsewhere?
  32. The Conversation launches in Indonesia
  33. AMP Foundation's zipline challenge supports science at The Conversation
  34. Western Australians don't really want a 'WAxit', they just want a little love
  35. Can 'cli-fi' actually make a difference? A climate scientist's perspective
  36. It's too hard to get the data of Australian criminals when it's stored overseas
  37. Technology in the classroom can improve primary mathematics
  38. Seven ways to protect your pets in an emergency
  39. Why we remember our youth as one big hedonistic party
  40. Curious Kids: Why do our brains freak us out with scary dreams?
  41. We Live Here: how do residents feel about public housing redevelopment?
  42. Explainer: how international competition affects how much you earn
  43. AGL rejects Turnbull call to keep operating Liddell coal-fired power station
  44. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's better PM lead blows out
  45. What Cassini's mission revealed about Saturn's known and newly discovered moons
  46. What 'sniffer' planes can tell us about North Korea's nuclear tests
  47. From segregation to celebration: the public pool in Australian culture
  48. Australia and Timor Leste reach a deal on the Timor Sea – but much remains unknown
  49. Here's what social media data can tell us about the performance of Australian cities
  50. Western Australian researchers get cut off from nationally funded research cloud

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