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Make housing affordable and cut road congestion all at once? Here's a way

  • Written by: Martin Payne, Casual Lecturer in Planning, University of Sydney
imageThis transit-oriented development in Oakland, California, combines residential housing with easy access to local transport options and amenities. Eric Fredericks/flickr, CC BY-SA

Two of the most pressing problems for Australian cities are housing affordability and traffic congestion. But there is an approach to both problems that could lead to...

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What's the benefit in making human-animal hybrids?

  • Written by: Martin Pera, Professor and Former Program Leader of Stem Cells Australia, University of Melbourne
imageThe red shows rat cells in the developing heart of a mouse embryo.Salk Institute

A team of scientists from the Salk Institute in the United States created a stir last week with the announcement that they had created hybrid human-pig foetuses.

The story was widely reported, although some outlets took a more hyperbolic or alarmed tone than others.

One...

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Educating Australia – why our schools aren't improving

  • Written by: Tom Bentley, Principal Adviser to the Vice Chancellor, RMIT University
imageNew evidence-based methods of teaching and learning are being taken up very slowly.from www.shutterstock.com

In this series we’ll explore how to improve schools in Australia, based on essays from a new book, Educating Australia: Challenges for the Decade Ahead. Some of the most prominent experts in the sector tackle key questions, including...

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Work hour limits need to change for better mental health and gender equality

  • Written by: Huong Dinh, Visiting fellow, Australian National University
imageResearch shows women's work hour limit is 34 hours before their mental health deteriorates compared to 47 hours for men. www.shutterstock.com

Australian businesses need to adhere to a healthy work hour limit for the mental health of workers and to take into account the amount of caring work women do at home, our research shows.

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  1. Hugh Mackay: the state of the nation starts in your street
  2. Fornication, fluids and faeces: the intimate life of the French court
  3. Dietary guidelines don't work. Here's how to fix them
  4. Why we can't spin a silken yarn as strong as a spider can
  5. Turnbull's right: we need cheap, clean and reliable power – here's how
  6. Turnbull finally reveals his Liberal donation was $1.75 million
  7. Turnbull's energy policy vision: heavy on direction, light on action
  8. Sobering health stats in latest Productivity Commission report
  9. Turnbull believes in timely disclosure of donations – just not his
  10. When the drugs don’t work: how we can turn the tide of antimicrobial resistance
  11. Enough with the Doctor Who gender debate – it's time
  12. Interactive: a snapshot of political donations in Australia for 2015-16
  13. Why, only now, are we finding out who the biggest donors in an election year were?
  14. What has Turnbull agreed to do for Trump?
  15. What economists and tax experts think of the company tax cut
  16. What did Galaxy's poll tell us about freedom of speech and 18C? Not what the IPA said it did
  17. It's time to focus on an endgame for tobacco regulation
  18. Listen up: a plan to help scientists get their research heard by decision-makers
  19. Dunstan, Christies and me: growing up in the ‘Athens of the South’
  20. Turnbull will acknowledge people's pain in speech on agenda
  21. The search for an economic solution for South Australia
  22. More than half the world's most important natural sites are under threat: it's time to protect them
  23. Shallow impact: when crackpot conspiracy theories are touted as news, we all lose
  24. Explainer: what is modern monetary theory?
  25. How should we talk about Trump?
  26. Explainer: what are executive orders? And what force do they have in US politics?
  27. Does more mental health treatment and less stigma produce better mental health?
  28. White House promises Trump ban won't affect Australians
  29. The off-topic Conversation #116
  30. Why the media need to tread carefully when reporting research findings
  31. How Australia can spread the benefits of our bulging infrastructure pipeline
  32. FactCheck: What are the facts on Australia's foreign aid spending?
  33. Methodology: finding the numbers on Australia's foreign aid spending over time
  34. Teased and bullied – the challenges of starting school with a stutter
  35. If GPs pass on cost from rebate freeze, poorer, sicker patients will be hardest hit
  36. Australia needs more than the New York Times' view of the world
  37. Celebrity charities just compete with all other charities – so why start one?
  38. The great Australian plays: A Cheery Soul gave us a supreme theatrical monster
  39. We can still keep global warming below 2℃ – but the hard work is about to start
  40. Shorten's three major economic priorities: 'jobs, jobs and jobs'
  41. China: globalisation’s unlikely champion
  42. Full response from Reverend Tim Costello
  43. Some rough sleepers are attracting tourists with their street art
  44. Turnbull news conference an exercise in avoidance and obfuscation
  45. Health Check: what causes bloating?
  46. Who gets to see CCTV footage? The law favours the operators
  47. CBA's test of government bond using the blockchain, is just that
  48. How to cope with the stress of working alone
  49. Donald Trump's ban will have lasting and damaging impacts on the world's refugees
  50. Destroying research embryos within 14 days limits chance of medical breakthroughs

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