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Our study found after-hours GPs actually do reduce visits to emergency rooms

  • Written by: Chris Ifediora, Senior Lecturer (Clinical Skills), Griffith University
imageSupporters of after-hours GP services say they reduce pressure on emergency rooms.from shutterstock.com

A taskforce reviewing more than 5,700 items covered by the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) released a preliminary report this week on urgent after-hours GP services funded through the MBS.

The government-appointed taskforce reviewed these...

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The Mummy struggles with the chemistry but gets the physics right with a crash

  • Written by: Michael Milford, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageSofia Boutella plays the new Mummy.Universal Pictures

It’s been 18 years since the cheesy but fun 1999 incarnation of The Mummy, and we were long due for another reboot. To meet that need, along came Tom Cruise accompanied by Russell Crowe and relative newcomers Sofia Boutella and Annabelle Wallis, in The Mummy.

imageTom Cruise and Annabelle...

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Three charts on: Australia's declining taste for beef and growing appetite for chicken

  • Written by: Elizabeth Taylor, Vice Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
imageAustralian consumption of chicken and pork both now far outstrip beef, mutton and lamb.Ben Phillips/Flickr, CC BY

Australians were once world champion beef-eaters but now you’re much more likely to find chicken than steak on Australian dinner tables.

Total meat consumption per capita in Australia has been stable since the 1960s, at around 110...

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Australia has stalled on car efficiency

  • Written by: Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
imageAustralia is falling far behind other countries in improving car pollution. , CSIRO/Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA

Last year, Australia’s new cars were just 1.1% less polluting than the year before, according to a report released this week by the National Transport Commission.

This is the smallest improvement on record, and largely due to our...

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  4. Friday essay: the 90s - why you had to be there
  5. To lift literacy levels among Indigenous children, their parents' literacy skills must be improved first
  6. Research in autism-friendly technology needs to improve to make a real difference for people
  7. Why we don't know what causes most birth defects
  8. Grattan on Friday: Terrorism's footprint on our politics
  9. What's holding up the blockchain?
  10. Where are the epic women's coming of age screen stories?
  11. Five ways older Australians can embrace technology to redefine later life
  12. How Indigenous tourism can help bring about reconciliation in Australia
  13. You should care about your doctor's health, because it matters to yours
  14. Explainer: what is a 'low emissions target' and how would it work?
  15. Schapelle Corby fails to draw a Twitter audience
  16. New Moroccan fossils suggest humans lived and evolved across Africa 100,000 years earlier than we thought
  17. Conservatives no longer a shoo-in as UK voters head to the polls
  18. From man-eaters to Pokémon: the weird world of cactus culture
  19. Is policy on Indigenous education deliberately being stalled?
  20. Six things every consumer should know about the 'Internet of Things'
  21. Melbourne's love-hate relationship with being Australia's 'street art capital'
  22. When do we stop vaccinating against an infectious disease?
  23. What is a pre-industrial climate and why does it matter?
  24. Tougher national parole laws won't end the violence
  25. Bob Dylan's Nobel speech: a splendidly eccentric performance
  26. While nations play politics, cities and states are taking up the climate challenge
  27. Four ways social media companies and security agencies can tackle terrorism
  28. Deliberative democracy must rise to the threat of populist rhetoric
  29. As a peace loving warrior, might Wonder Woman unite feminists?
  30. Explainer: what causes alopecia areata and can you treat this type of hair loss?
  31. Three charts on: Australia's growing rates of weight loss surgery
  32. Looking at terror attacks 'per capita' should make us rethink beliefs about levels of risk and Muslims
  33. Curious Kids: Do sharks sneeze?
  34. Adani gives itself the green light, but that doesn't change the economics of coal
  35. Winter warmth is in the forecast (but don't celebrate yet)
  36. Infographic: Are we making progress on Indigenous education?
  37. To smiley face or not: the complexity of email etiquette
  38. The dark side of mondegreens: how a simple mishearing can lead to wrongful conviction
  39. Vale Anthony Foster – a man of deep courage and quiet determination
  40. Our 'sporting nation' is a myth, so how do we get youngsters back on the field?
  41. Retirement and regeneration: how robots and replicants experience death
  42. Vaginal mesh controversy shows collective failure of the TGA and Australia's specialists
  43. In a fractured world, Eurovisions opens a dialogue through art
  44. Chinese influence compromises the integrity of our politics
  45. No flies on Australia's richest union
  46. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on handling Islamist terrorism
  47. Labour victory possible at UK general election
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