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Imaging study confirms differences in ADHD brains

  • Written by: Alison Poulton, Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics, Sydney Medical School Nepean, University of Sydney
imageA study has found there are differences in the brains of people with ADHD. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The prestigious journal The Lancet has published a large study identifying differences in the brains of people diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

It found ADHD is associated with the delayed development of five brain...

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Should Victoria introduce a swifter model of sentencing family violence offenders?

  • Written by: Arie Freiberg, Emeritus Professor of Law, Monash University
imageA swift, certain and fair approach is designed to encourage offenders to comply with the conditions of their sentence.from shutterstock.com

Offenders in Victoria, and elsewhere for that matter, often wait months or years between the date they commit a crime and the date a court sentences them. The delay is there for a reason; a number of important...

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Why small business tax cuts aren't likely to boost 'jobs and growth'

  • Written by: Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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The Turnbull government’s signature economic policy at last year’s election was a 5% cut in the company tax rate, over a ten-year period, at a cost to revenue estimated to be in excess of A$48 billion. As the government itself has conceded, this now stands very little prospect of being passed by the Senate.

However, there is one...

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Australia needs to reboot affordable housing funding, not scrap it

  • Written by: Chris Martin, Research Fellow, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
imageNew South Wales is the state that has suffered the biggest fall in available public housing stock since 2009. This has led to protests.Teresa Parker/AAP

Federal government ministers have cast a cloud over funding for social housing and homelessness services, leading to speculation that the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA) may not...

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  3. Wary of human-animal hybrids? It's probably just your own moral superiority
  4. Guide to the classics: Alice Pung on Robin Klein's The Sky in Silver Lace
  5. Women also sexually abuse children, but their reasons often differ from men's
  6. US president shoots the messengers. SAD!
  7. WA ReachTEL: Liberals gain to move to tie
  8. The Death of President Trump
  9. The bitter consolation of imitation
  10. Game therapy: serious video games can help children with cerebral palsy
  11. The Great Wall fails to bring down the barriers in a lacklustre Chinese-US epic
  12. Bush democracy wins out but council mergers continue in Sydney
  13. Work councils could be the future of Australian industrial democracy in an ABCC world
  14. Australia emerges as a leader in the global darknet drugs trade
  15. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the omnibus bill
  16. Netanyahu visit historic – and potentially fraught – for Australia
  17. Words, Tweets and Stones in the Political Correctness Wars
  18. How we do FactChecks at The Conversation
  19. Essays on health: reporting medical news is too important to mess up
  20. Australians believe 18C protections should stay
  21. Australia's electricity market is not agile and innovative enough to keep up
  22. Friday essay: the female werewolf and her shaggy suffragette sisters
  23. Vital Signs: business confidence spikes but uncertainty reigns
  24. Grattan on Friday: The 'Omnibus' puts government in a tangle and Xenophon in a jam
  25. The Red Detachment of Women marches forward – but to where?
  26. Politics podcast: Anthony Albanese on Labor's approach to infrastructure
  27. North Korea may not yet have a long-range missile, but its progress is worrying
  28. Help us restore trust in experts
  29. Roe 8 fails the tests of responsible 21st-century infrastructure planning
  30. Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer
  31. Global clean energy scorecard puts Australia 15th in the world
  32. Where art meets industry: protecting the spectacular rock art of the Burrup Peninsula
  33. Jakarta governor's race a litmus test for Indonesia
  34. What will my child's life be like? Newly identified genes may help diagnose autism and disability
  35. How changing times made Australia's political leaders more disposable
  36. Human genome editing report strikes the right balance between risks and benefits
  37. Dream homes: Architecture and popular imagination
  38. Full response from Mark McGowan on methamphetamine use in Western Australia
  39. Climate change doubled the likelihood of the New South Wales heatwave
  40. Something smells off: Kate Grenville's case against fragrance
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  42. Why sitting is not the 'new smoking'
  43. After all the talk, what is the Turnbull government actually doing for small business?
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  45. Politics podcast: Barnaby Joyce on a year at the top
  46. Clementine Ford and Lindy West talk Twitter and life on and off the Internet
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The strategic rise of Bali as Australia’s next essential healthcare support hub

As Australian healthcare providers grapple with unprecedented operational bottlenecks, a new nearshore model is quietly transforming patient care delivery. Forward-thinking organisations,  including...

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Cost Savings and Benefits of Using Used Pallets in Logistics

In today’s competitive logistics and supply chain industry, businesses are constantly looking for ways to reduce operational costs without compromising efficiency and reliability. One of the most prac...

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How Fulfilment Services in Australia Help Businesses Scale Efficiently

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