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The NHMRC program grant overhaul: will it change the medical research landscape in Australia?

  • Written by: Gaetan Burgio, Geneticist and Group Leader, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
imageMedical researchers should be conducting life-saving research, not spending half their time writing grants. from www.shutterstock.com

Medical research in Australia is facing some unprecedented challenges. Investment in the National and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has been flat for years and since 2011, the number of funded research projects...

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Scientists are accidentally helping poachers drive rare species to extinction

  • Written by: Benjamin Scheele, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ecology, Australian National University
imageThe beautiful Chinese cave gecko, or Goniurosaurus luii, is highly prized by poachersCarola Jucknies

If you open Google and start typing “Chinese cave gecko”, the text will auto-populate to “Chinese cave gecko for sale” – just US$150, with delivery. This extremely rare species is just one of an increasingly large...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the fate of budget measures in the Senate

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageAAP/Brendan Esposito

The University of Canberra’s vice-chancellor and president, professor Deep Saini, and professorial fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics, including how the budget bills will go in the Senate, whether the government will get support from the Greens to pass its education reforms, the leaked recording of One...

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Codswallop: how to stop boxing deaths and brain injury with a simple rule

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageIf hitting below the belt, not the head, was the aim, then brain damage from boxing would disappear overnight.from www.shutterstock.com

The coronial inquest in Sydney into the death by subdural haematoma (brain bleed) of 28-year-old boxer Davey Browne has yet again seen the same predictable response about how we might prevent such outcomes in the...

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  1. Call for mandatory screening to cut the risk of malnutrition in older people
  2. No problem too big #1: Artificial intelligence and killer robots
  3. Bogan in the eye of the beholder: the curious case of Rebel Wilson
  4. Defying Empire: the legacy of 1967
  5. Why is Australian 15-year-olds' financial literacy declining?
  6. Fat nation: the rise and fall of obesity on the political agenda
  7. ‘Right wrongs, write Yes’: what was the 1967 referendum all about?
  8. Vital Signs: Trump's innumerate budget makes Australia's look plausible
  9. Pregnant rays and babies pay a price after 'catch and release' from fishing trawlers
  10. Friday essay: desecration and romanticisation - the real curse of mummies
  11. The plan to protect wildlife displaced by the Hume Highway has failed
  12. Green space – how much is enough, and what's the best way to deliver it?
  13. Grattan on Friday: Pauline Hanson's strategist James Ashby can be a risky guy to have around
  14. Protesters fight 'invisible displacement' by mine
  15. From live streaming to TOR: new technologies are worsening online child exploitation
  16. Five reasons investors shouldn't swear off IPOs
  17. Health Check: can chopping your vegetables boost their nutrients?
  18. Lindt Cafe siege inquest highlights need for police to change their closed-off culture
  19. Indigenous players didn't invent Australian rules but did make it their own
  20. The economics behind Uber’s new pricing model
  21. Managing demand can save two power stations' worth of energy at peak times
  22. Beauty, fashion and looking 'hot': YouTube's powerful messages for girls
  23. Star Wars turns 40 and it still inspires our real life space junkies
  24. What needs to happen to build resilience and improve mental health among junior doctors
  25. Investors are exploiting returns on debt financing to muscle out home buyers
  26. Let graduates use super to pay off HELP debt faster
  27. FactCheck: will 700,000 workers be 'ripped off' by penalty rate cuts, as Bill Shorten said?
  28. Manchester's Blue Monday and the Folly of Cowardice
  29. How we could make the retirement system more sustainable
  30. Politics podcast: Chris Bowen on Labor's budget responses
  31. Full response from a spokesperson for Brendan O'Connor
  32. Full response from the McKell Institute regarding its report on penalty rate cuts
  33. Sorry everyone: on the internet, you're always the product
  34. Poor kids hit puberty sooner and risk a lifetime of health problems
  35. Australian cricketers' pay dispute: will lightning strike twice in the same place?
  36. The way we walk can be used to power and secure our devices
  37. Australia's involvement in an 'Anglosphere' is the delusion of a golden age that never existed
  38. Sgt Pepper's at 50 – the greatest thing you ever heard or just another album?
  39. Aussie retailers need to adapt to a world built on speed
  40. Pirates of the Caribbean 5: there be some good science in that there film
  41. Curious Kids: If a huge huntsman spider is sucked into a vacuum cleaner, can it crawl out later?
  42. Widespread invasive species control is a risky business
  43. Thinking big gives top predators the competitive edge
  44. How do we choose who gets the flu vaccine in a pandemic – paramedics, prisoners or the public?
  45. The insecurity of private renters – how do they manage it?
  46. Turnbull offers May 'any and every support' after terror attack
  47. 'Giving a Gonski' will be torrid test for Greens
  48. The 'digital handmade': how 3D printing became a new craft technology
  49. Mr Burns: post-apocalyptic Simpsons musical shows theatre's future is dazzling
  50. Carnage at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester a suspected terrorist attack

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