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How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia

  • Written by: Ben O'Mara, Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology

Between 2008 and 2011, the rate of people treated for dependency on morphine in rural and regional Australia was roughly double that of their major city counterparts.

Dependency on morphine, codeine, oxycodone and other opioid painkillers reflects what we already know about life in the small towns of Australia. Outside major cities, people tend to...

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How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation

  • Written by: Molly Glassey, Audience Development Manager, The Conversation

In a perfect commenting community locking accounts would be unheard of. Unfortunately, the world contains trolls, agenda-pushers and people with vendettas. Moderation can only do so much, so to keep the community safe and constructive sometimes we lock commenting accounts.

I’m not a fan of locking accounts, so I only do it when I’m 100%...

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Some workers 'cyberloaf' if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative

  • Written by: Emily Lowe-Calverley, PhD Candidate in Cyberpsychology, University of Tasmania
imageEmployees are not working at work and working at home.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend’s holiday snaps on Facebook: if you break up your work day with online activities that aren’t work-related, you may be guilty of “cyberloafing”.

Cyberloafing...

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Hanson set to refer Malcolm Roberts to the High Court over dual citizenship questions

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imagePauline Hanson said Malcolm Roberts has her full backing.Lukas Coch/AAP

Pauline Hanson is set to move that the High Court consider the eligibility of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts. There is a question mark over whether Roberts was a dual British citizen when he nominated for parliament.

Hanson’s announcement came after it was obvious a...

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

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