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Being South Asian is as great a risk factor for stillbirth as smoking

  • Written by: Miranda Davies-Tuck, Perinatal Epidemiologist and NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
imageWe need to change the way we monitor the pregnancies of women born in South Asia to reduce their chance of a stillbirth.from www.shutterstock.com

Australian women born in South Asia are more likely to have a stillbirth than other women, perhaps due to a rapidly ageing placenta that cannot support the pregnancy, new research suggests.

Our study looked...

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Send the market a price signal where affordable housing is most needed

  • Written by: Martin Payne, Casual Lecturer in Planning, University of Sydney
imageInterest rate adjustments are crude and fail to target the problems within the housing market.Shutterstock

Current market mechanisms need to be reformed to give better price signals to developers, and to direct subsidies to achieve the goal of affordable housing. Ideally, the reforms would be comprehensive, including road congestion charges, capital...

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The winners and losers of Antarctica’s great thaw

  • Written by: Jasmine Lee, PhD candidate, biodiversity conservation and climate change, The University of Queensland
imageAdélie penguin at the Mt Siple breeding colony, West Antarctica.Jasmine Lee, Author provided

When you think of Antarctica, you probably picture vast, continuous ice sheets and glaciers, with maybe a penguin or two thrown in. Yet most Antarctic plants and animals live in the permanently ice-free areas that cover about 1% of the continent. Our...

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Abbott, on a mission to destroy, is stepping up his stalking of Turnbull

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageTony Abbott has made the most of media opportunities this week to push his agenda.Dan Hembrechts/AAP

Tony Abbott has thrown further fuel on the fire of anger against Christopher Pyne over his outburst of factional hubris, as the Liberals’ internal war rages.

Abbott on Wednesday said he could “understand why some of my colleagues are...

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  3. Born in China: a new type of Australian business
  4. Globally, floods seem to be decreasing even as extreme rainfall rises. Why?
  5. Census shows increase in children with disability, but even more are still uncounted
  6. Change Agents: Amee Meredith and Caterina Politi on reforming 'one-punch' laws
  7. What do we tell kids about the climate change future we created for them?
  8. Celebrating the feminist Holden
  9. Census 2016: what's changed for Indigenous Australians?
  10. It isn't easy being blue – the cost of colour in fairy wrens
  11. Our pets strengthen neighbourhood ties
  12. Creative country: 98% of Australians engage with the arts
  13. The world's tropical zone is expanding, and Australia should be worried
  14. Huge restored reef aims to bring South Australia's oysters back from the brink
  15. New research shows there is still a long way to go in providing equality in education
  16. Men are killed at a greater rate than women in Australia – what can we do to reduce their risk?
  17. China bans streaming video as it struggles to keep up with live content
  18. How parenting advice assumes you're white and middle class
  19. Curious Kids: My tooth fell out. Why is it so spiky on the bottom?
  20. Tony Abbott says he'll stay around – because he's needed
  21. Home ownership remains strong in Australia but it masks other problems: Census data
  22. Census 2016 puts on display the increasing diversity in Australians' relationships
  23. Census 2016 shows Australia's changing religious profile, with more 'nones' than Catholics
  24. The ATM celebrates 50 years but we're using it less
  25. Why retirement village contracts need to be regulated like insurance
  26. Explainer: what is tularemia and can I catch it from a possum?
  27. Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
  28. A map that fills a 500-million year gap in Earth's history
  29. Body mass and evolution: why the body mass index is a limited measure of public health
  30. Why many high-achieving Indigenous students are shunning university
  31. The Conversation launches in Canada
  32. Pharmacists are trusted medical professionals, so they shouldn't sell remedies that lack evidence
  33. Tenants' calls for safe public housing fall on deaf ears
  34. Despite our growing taste for craft brews, smaller beer makers face a huge disadvantage
  35. Data visualisation isn't just for communication, it's also a research tool
  36. Contributions to sea-level rise have increased by half since 1993, largely because of Greenland's ice
  37. Roman gladiators were war prisoners and criminals, not sporting heroes
  38. Pyne's self-indulgence damages Turnbull because it reinforces what Liberal right wing malcontents believe
  39. Why I disagree with Nobel Laureates when it comes to career advice for scientists
  40. Rumours of the death of multinational tax avoidance are greatly exaggerated
  41. Logically, how is it possible to use more resources than Earth can replenish?
  42. The NT 'Intervention' led to some changes in Indigenous health, but the social cost may not have been worth it
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  46. From Elvis to Cobain, The Sound of Falling Stars revives those dead before their time
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Cost Savings and Benefits of Using Used Pallets in Logistics

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