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Going for gold: Trump, Louis XIV and interior design

  • Written by: Robert Wellington, Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture, Australian National University
imageUS President Donald Trump, flanked by Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (standing, L-R), Vice President Mike Pence, Staff Secretary Rob Porter and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus - in front of the new Oval Office gold curtains. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Yellow-gold swagged curtains, glimpsed in the first pictures from the Trump administration’s...

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Sport is more than just a fringe player in Australia's economy

  • Written by: Bob Stewart, Professor in the School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University
imageAustralian sport may only account for 1.6% of total household spend, but its macro impact on the economy is strong. from www.shutterstock.com

In strictly statistical terms, the Australian sport and physical recreation sector is a “fringe player” in the national economic game. In 2010, the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that...

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Medicine for older people is the same for anyone else: treat the person, not just the body

  • Written by: Bill Lukin, Consultant Emergency Physician and Palliative Medicine Trainee Physician, Clinical Associate Lecturer at the School of Medicine, The University of Queensland
imageModern medicine too often posits doctors as mechanics and people as machines needing to be fixed. Neil Kumar/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

This article is part of our series on older people’s health. It looks at the changes and processes that occur in our body as we age, the conditions we’re more likely to suffer from and what we can do to prevent...

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What's happening in our bodies as we age?

  • Written by: Lisa Hee, Director of Healthy Ageing and Dementia Programs School of Nursing and Midwifery, PhD candidate in ?, CQUniversity Australia
imageThere are many processes that occur as a result of 'wear and tear' in the body.from www.shutterstock.com.au

This article is part of our series on older people’s health. It looks at the changes and processes that occur in our body as we age, the conditions we’re more likely to suffer from and what we can do to prevent them.


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  1. Youngest in class twice as likely to take ADHD medication
  2. Loose-cannon Trump enters the tinderbox of US-Russia-China relations
  3. Explainer: what rights do workers have to getting paid in the gig economy?
  4. Things fall apart: why do the ecosystems we depend on collapse?
  5. 2017: The year ahead in cinema
  6. Could Russian hacking pose a threat to Australian democracy?
  7. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition has big lead with One Nation at 16.3%
  8. 'America first' – Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States
  9. Why Australian supermarkets continue to look to the UK for leadership
  10. Three theories for what's causing the global productivity slowdown
  11. ASEAN countries should find a solution to end the persecution of Rohingya
  12. Who will keep predatory science journals at bay now that Jeffrey Beall's blog is gone?
  13. President Trump threatens to undermine key measure of climate policy success
  14. What comes next for Nick Kyrgios is up to Nick Kyrgios
  15. Explainer: what are the limits to charities advancing political causes?
  16. Obama's legacy: history will judge him more kindly than his critics think
  17. Australians on Twitter were 'positive' about the US election of Donald Trump
  18. Syria, Russia and Turkey – the uneasy alliance reshaping world politics
  19. Ultra, super, clean coal power? We've heard it before
  20. Mythbusting Ancient Rome - the truth about the vomitorium
  21. Breast milk banking continues an ancient human tradition and can save lives
  22. Australia needs to invest if it wants the tourism boom to continue
  23. Vital Signs: brace yourselves for the new economic reality
  24. All hail Trump, the great transgressor!
  25. Australia's privacy laws gutted in court ruling on what is 'personal information'
  26. Aussie rules football still has a way to go to be considered 'feminist'
  27. Why don't we know how many people die in our hospitals?
  28. Baird's early exit means NSW loses a leader whose best years were yet to come
  29. 2016 crowned hottest year on record: Australia needs to get heat smart
  30. Australian science making some progress amid the march of ministers
  31. Is 2017 the year to ditch the term 'innovation'?
  32. Clemency for Chelsea Manning – but will Assange or Snowden also find the US merciful?
  33. Physical health ignored in people with mental illness
  34. The world's best wildlife photography reveals a fragile, beautiful realm
  35. Printing more money isn't the answer to all economic ills
  36. Australia needs stricter rules to curb air pollution, but there's a lot we could all do now
  37. If we scrapped the states, increasing Canberra's clout would be a backward step
  38. Explainer: Why the human voice is so versatile
  39. The search for MH370 is over: what we learnt and where to now
  40. Stinking dead fish portend major problem with carp herpes release
  41. University completion rates won't be improved by looking at isolated causes
  42. Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement
  43. Do 8 men really control the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population?
  44. What's in store for new health minister Greg Hunt?
  45. How professional sport handicaps youth sporting culture
  46. What next for the ASX and Blockchain in 2017?
  47. FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices?
  48. Xi Jinping may be preaching trade, but China's opening up has slowed
  49. When gentrification lacks empathy: a case study
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