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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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