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There are ways to reduce injuries in kids that don't involve wrapping them in cotton wool

  • Written by: Kate Hunter, Senior Research Fellow, George Institute for Global Health
imageKids play and explore. It's up to us to make sure they can do so safely.from www.shutterstock.com.au

We all do our best to protect our kids from harm, but the adventures of childhood usually come with at least a few injuries. While no parent wants to wrap their kids in cotton wool, a new study has reported injury as the leading cause of death in...

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With the rise of subscription and online TV, we need to rethink local content rules

  • Written by: Marc C-Scott, Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
imageKate McCartney and Kate McLennan in The Katering Show (2015), which began as a short form web series.idmb

The newly released Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report on Film, Television and Digital Games 2015-16 offers fascinating insights into how our screen media landscape has changed over the past four years.

A key factor has been the introduc...

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Vital Signs: Australia is facing an interest rates dilemma

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageAustralia's central bank has to deal with a Gordian Knot in deciding how to treat interest rates as conditions shift.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise...

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As Trump ups the ante, executive powers should worry Australians too

  • Written by: Anna Boucher, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Political Science, University of Sydney
imageThe executive government in Australia has more power than most people realise, especially when it comes to immigration.Cody Austin/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many...

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  1. Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production
  2. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Finkel feedback
  3. Turnbull government must find a way to rid Australia of foreign donations
  4. Minister to get unprecedented power if Australia's new citizenship bill is passed
  5. Why more schools need to teach bilingual education to Indigenous children
  6. Friday essay: the wonder of Joyce's Ulysses
  7. Philanthropy is funding serious journalism in the US, it could work for Australia too
  8. Goodbye to the Gatwick, and to so much of the old St Kilda
  9. The new space race: why we need a human mission to Mars
  10. Volcanoes under the ice: melting Antarctic ice could fight climate change
  11. The new data retention law seriously invades our privacy – and it's time we took action
  12. Grattan on Friday: The Finkel plan will test Malcolm Turnbull's ability to deliver significant reform
  13. Explainer: why three government ministers might face contempt of court charges
  14. How popular culture gets Australian spy work wrong
  15. Armpits and melons: an olfactory reading of James Joyce
  16. Ten Network has a hard road back to viability
  17. Politics podcast: Josh Frydenberg, George Christensen and Mark Butler on the Finkel review
  18. The NDIS costs are on track, but that doesn't mean all participants are getting the support they need
  19. Two in five pregnant women don't receive care in the first trimester
  20. Emily Bell: Journalism in the age of Trump and the real-time social web
  21. Elder abuse report ignores impact on people's health
  22. The problems with asking banks to police financial abuse
  23. Explainer: what is public interest journalism?
  24. CPA in crisis: why more associations will have to disclose CEO pay
  25. Playing the numbers: a billion-dollar gamble on the European X-ray Laser
  26. Will the superhero films ever end? The business of blockbuster movie franchises
  27. Are maternal hormones different when carrying a boy or a girl?
  28. Zoos aren't Victorian-era throwbacks: they're important in saving species
  29. Leaving school early means you're likely never to return to study and training in adult life
  30. Autonomy and strong female leadership key to success of Indigenous owned Murri School
  31. Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries
  32. Ten Network's problems are history repeating
  33. UK Labour's votes have become inefficiently distributed since 2010
  34. For $70m, government gets off lightly, but settlement still highlights responsibility for Manus
  35. When is 'not a backdoor' just a backdoor? Australia's struggle with encryption
  36. Trepidation and delight: experiencing Dark Mofo with a three-year-old
  37. Uncertainty isn't causing slow economic growth, for now
  38. Health Check: what's the right way to blow your nose?
  39. Why women’s tennis rankings need an overhaul
  40. Tall turkeys and nuggety chickens: large 'megapode' birds once lived across Australia
  41. Research Check: can even moderate drinking cause brain damage?
  42. Three charts on: Australia's booming prison population
  43. Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that
  44. Indigenous picture books offering windows into worlds
  45. Curious Kids: Who made the alphabet song?
  46. The compulsion to create: 'outsider art' at MONA's Museum of Everything
  47. From Joseph Banks to big data, herbaria bring centuries-old science into the digital age
  48. Three strategies unions are considering for their survival
  49. In defence of serendipity: the Silicon Emperor is wearing no clothes
  50. Critical backbenchers push back on Finkel clean energy target plan

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