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No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women

  • Written by: Nicole Kalms, Director of XYX Lab + Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash University, Monash University
imageDue to a fear of being harassed or assaulted, many women go out of their way to avoid travelling through parts of the city where sexual entertainment venues are concentrated. Blemished Paradise/flickr , CC BY-SA

Increasingly liberal attitudes to sex have allowed for greater public celebration of sexual diversity, but the desires of heterosexual men...

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Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageChristine Forster and her partner Virginia plan to marry.Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Tony Abbott, who resoundingly won an election being “Dr No”, will bring all his formidable attack skills to trying to kill the push to change the definition of marriage.

In a pitch that sees him lined up against both his prime minister and his activist gay...

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Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint

  • Written by: Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
imageSearching for respite from the heat in one of Rome's fountains.Max Roxxi/Reuters

Parts of Europe are having a devastatingly hot summer. Already we’ve seen heat records topple in western Europe in June, and now a heatwave nicknamed “Lucifer” is bringing stifling conditions to areas of southern and eastern Europe.

Several countries...

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Prostate cancer testing: has the bubble burst?

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageTwo new studies are bursting the bubble about the value of screening men for prostate cancer.from www.shutterstock.com

In 2010, I wrote a free book on prostate cancer testing with two colleagues, Alex Barratt (an epidemiologist) and Martin Stockler (a clinical oncologist), Let sleeping dogs lie? What men should know before getting tested for...

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  1. How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia
  2. How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation
  3. Some workers 'cyberloaf' if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative
  4. Hanson set to refer Malcolm Roberts to the High Court over dual citizenship questions
  5. Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population
  6. Explainer: how do Australia's proposed citizenship laws compare internationally?
  7. Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football's growth in Australia
  8. 'Gene drives' could wipe out whole populations of pests in one fell swoop
  9. As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV
  10. The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it
  11. Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
  12. Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
  13. What a new map of the universe tells us about dark matter
  14. A closer look at jobless youth in Western Sydney points us to the solutions
  15. Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social
  16. Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance
  17. Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot
  18. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump
  19. Banks can't fight online credit card fraud alone, and neither can you
  20. Explainer: with no free vote for now, where next for marriage equality?
  21. Health Check: in terms of exercise, is walking enough?
  22. 'Mainstream' is not a dirty word
  23. Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage
  24. Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
  25. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  26. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia
  27. This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush
  28. Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV
  29. Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else
  30. When dinosaurs walked the Earth they moved like modern birds
  31. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  32. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  33. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  34. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach
  35. Explainer: what is silicosis and why is this old lung disease making a comeback?
  36. The Conversation's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism
  37. Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
  38. Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'
  39. Man flu is real, but women get more autoimmune diseases and allergies
  40. Our healthcare records outlive us. It's time to decide what happens to the data once we're gone.
  41. Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
  42. A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
  43. Living blanket, water diviner, wild pet: a cultural history of the dingo
  44. Australia doesn't 'get' the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders
  45. How a charter of rights could protect Australians' fundamental freedoms
  46. Liberals face crunch on marriage as Coalition behind in 17th consecutive Newspoll
  47. Poor households are locked out of green energy, unless governments help
  48. Queensland Galaxy 51-49 to Labor, but Palaszczuk's ratings slump
  49. Allegations against the CBA show the need for a Royal Commission into the banks
  50. NAPLAN results show it isn’t the basics that are missing in Australian education

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