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Dr G. Yunupingu's legacy: it's time to get rid of chronic hepatitis B in Indigenous Australia

  • Written by: Benjamin Cowie, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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News of the tragic death of Dr G. Yunupingu last week in Darwin at only 46 years of age has again highlighted the unacceptable gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians. Yunupingu had been living with chronic hepatitis B since early in life, and experienced complications of this condition including...

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After the streaming 'gold rush' – a guide to China's video crackdown

  • Written by: Wanning Sun, Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney

When China’s government banned video streaming on the site AcFun (Site A) in June, little did we know that the days of Bilibili – its sister site, commonly referred as Site B – were also numbered.

In July, thousands of people woke up to find that the content they had archived on Site B – mostly TV series and films from the...

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Fair winds and following seas: yes, a spider could migrate across an ocean

  • Written by: Ceridwen Fraser, Senior lecturer, Australian National University
imageHang on, is that a spider floating this way? Andrea Izzotti/shutterstock

Today a new paper proposes trapdoor spiders arrived on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, after drifting across the sea from Africa.

Molecular analyses of spiders from Kangaroo Island, other parts of Australia, and Africa show that the Kangaroo Island’s spiders are much...

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Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive

  • Written by: Janet McCalman, Professor of Population Health, University of Melbourne
imageForty years on, there is still resistance to mixing with the 'sort of people' who were segregated in social housing tower blocks.David Jackmanson/flickr, CC BY

Public housing reform is again agitating the inner suburbs, just as it did four decades ago when citizen action and courageous academic research brought the tower-block model crashing down.

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  1. 'Tax returns for water': satellite-audited statements can save the Murray-Darling
  2. Solar is now the most popular form of new electricity generation worldwide
  3. Australia needs dozens more scientists to monitor climate properly, report says
  4. Entsch warns against 'ambush' meeting on marriage, amid speculation about postal ballot
  5. Lack of internet affordability may worsen Australia’s digital divide: new report
  6. Weekly Dose: anaesthetic and recreational drug ketamine could be used to treat depression
  7. UK crackdown on gender stereotypes in advertising shows up Australia's low bar
  8. Here's why it's so hard to say whether inequality is going up or down
  9. Bitcoin splits and Bitcoin Cash is created. Explaining why and what happens now
  10. More than 'slacktivism': we dismiss the power of politics online at our peril
  11. Home ownership falling, debts rising – it's looking grim for the under 40s
  12. Men still prefer mothers to stay at home: 12 charts on attitudes to work and family
  13. Australians want more children than they have, so are we in the midst of a demographic crisis?
  14. Pokies, sport and racing harm 41% of monthly gamblers: survey
  15. Curious Kids: What's going to happen to the Sun in the future? Will it explode?
  16. Affordable housing shortfall leaves 1.3m households in need and rising – study
  17. NAPLAN is ten years old – so how is the nation faring?
  18. The Method gone bananas? How motion capture actors are embracing their inner ape
  19. 'Just do the weather': does it matter if TV weather presenters aren't experts?
  20. So many in the West are depressed because they're expected not to be
  21. Party turmoil over way ahead on same-sex marriage
  22. Trump's Obamacare repeal attempt fails in US Senate
  23. Like a TARDIS in your head, memory helps you travel through time
  24. Workers are actually feeling less insecure in their jobs
  25. Security gets $1.2b, community programs to counter violent extremism $40m – that's a foolish imbalance
  26. The good news and bad news about the rare birds of Papua New Guinea
  27. Bottleshops affect people's health, so our laws need to reflect that
  28. Universities unveil plan to reduce sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus
  29. Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100
  30. A full ban on political donations would level the playing field – but is it the best approach?
  31. Why are there so few women screen composers?
  32. Universities have a problem with sexual assault and harassment: here's how to fix it
  33. Voluntary assisted dying is not a black-and-white issue for Christians – they can, in good faith, support it
  34. Three charts on: who is the typical investor in the Australian property market?
  35. Vanishing Australian backyards leave us vulnerable to the stresses of city life
  36. Planners know depressingly little about a city's impacts on our mental health
  37. Facebook is fighting social media identity theft in India, but it's a global problem
  38. Spilling blood in art, a tale of tampons, Trump and taboos
  39. How to know what you're getting when you buy free-range eggs
  40. Showdown on same-sex marriage looming within the Liberals
  41. New research highlights challenges of building networks for employees and entrepreneurs
  42. Les Murray's death deprives football in Australia of its most passionate and inspiring voice
  43. Explainer: how to extend your phone's battery life
  44. Australia leads the world in hepatitis C treatment – what's behind its success?
  45. We’ve got to stop meeting like this
  46. How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate
  47. Is there such a thing as a 'true self'?
  48. Cancer immunotherapy drugs like Keytruda and Opdivo hold hope for some, but there's still a way to go
  49. Downsizing cost trap awaits retirees – five reasons to be wary
  50. Snakebites are rarer than you think, but if you collapse, CPR can save your life

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