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Health Check: in terms of exercise, is walking enough?

  • Written by: Megan Teychenne, Senior Lecturer, Physical Activity and Health, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
imageWalking is free, easy and can get you from A to B - but does it "count" in terms of how much exercise we need?from www.shutterstock.com.au

We all know we need to exercise to stay fit and strong, stave off disease and maintain a healthy weight. Walking is the most popular physical activity undertaken by Australian adults. It’s free, easy, and...

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'Mainstream' is not a dirty word

  • Written by: Charis Palmer, Deputy Editor, The Conversation
imageHalf of The Conversation's audience reads us on their phone.Gauthier DELECROIX/Flickr, CC BY

One of our academic authors recently commented that The Conversation has become “very mainstream in what it’s publishing”. It was a loaded comment, considering people increasingly distrust “the MSM”, sometimes calling it...

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Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage

  • Written by: Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
imageThis is a potent slogan, although there is a deeply conservative undertone to the idea that love always requires marriage.AAP/Joel Carrett

The social conservatives have won. Despite overwhelming evidence that most Australians would accept same-sex marriage, the Liberal Party insists its own brand of populism – a plebiscite to determine...

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Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?

  • Written by: Vaughan Cruickshank, Course Co-ordinator – Health and Physical Education, Maths/Science, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
imageMen often leave teaching because of the gender-related challenges they face.shutterstock

The percentage of male primary school teachers in Australia has decreased in recent decades, from 30.24% in 1983 to 18.26% in 2016. Education authorities have responded to this with recruitment-focused initiatives, such as scholarships and quota systems.

But the...

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  1. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  2. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia
  3. This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush
  4. Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV
  5. Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else
  6. When dinosaurs walked the Earth they moved like modern birds
  7. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  8. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  9. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  10. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach
  11. Explainer: what is silicosis and why is this old lung disease making a comeback?
  12. The Conversation's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism
  13. Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
  14. Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'
  15. Man flu is real, but women get more autoimmune diseases and allergies
  16. Our healthcare records outlive us. It's time to decide what happens to the data once we're gone.
  17. Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
  18. A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
  19. Living blanket, water diviner, wild pet: a cultural history of the dingo
  20. Australia doesn't 'get' the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders
  21. How a charter of rights could protect Australians' fundamental freedoms
  22. Liberals face crunch on marriage as Coalition behind in 17th consecutive Newspoll
  23. Poor households are locked out of green energy, unless governments help
  24. Queensland Galaxy 51-49 to Labor, but Palaszczuk's ratings slump
  25. Allegations against the CBA show the need for a Royal Commission into the banks
  26. NAPLAN results show it isn’t the basics that are missing in Australian education
  27. Trump-Turnbull call: trading people like pawns undermines the goals of international co-operation
  28. The dangers of leaving home: UK WannaCry ransomware hero arrested in the US
  29. Bottom of the canal: Pfizer's billion-dollar tax ploy
  30. Turnbull's promise to Trump: 'You can count on me'
  31. Climate change to blame for Australia's July heat
  32. Transcript of Trump-Turnbull call shows just how hard it'll be to deal with the president
  33. Another attack on the Bureau, but top politicians have stopped listening to climate change denial
  34. Why anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking
  35. Country rules: the ‘splinternet’ may be the future of the web
  36. The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there's too much at stake
  37. Five quotes from the Turnbull-Trump call show the folly of Australia's refugee policy
  38. Greg Hunt's plan to reduce hospital admissions won't work if he can't measure successes and failures
  39. Cricket pay saga a case study in how not to resolve industrial disputes in sport
  40. Friday essay: the photographer, the island and half a million lifejackets
  41. When it comes to sport, boys 'play like a girl'
  42. The right to bare arms: the history of Australian sex worker activism
  43. How do you know that what you know is true? That's epistemology
  44. Computer says no: robo-advice is growing but we still don't trust it
  45. As a coastal defence, the Great Barrier Reef’s value to communities goes way beyond tourism
  46. The Wonderful Weirdness of 'You're Not Alone'
  47. Grattan on Friday: Marriage on the rocks in divided Liberal Party
  48. Turnbull to tell power companies: do better by customers
  49. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on same-sex marriage showdown
  50. Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?

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