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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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  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
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  32. Where art meets industry: protecting the spectacular rock art of the Burrup Peninsula
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