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Breast milk banking continues an ancient human tradition and can save lives

  • Written by: Jacqueline Miller, Senior Lecturer and SAHMRI Fellow, Flinders University
imageScreening and sterilisation processes mean human breast milk can be safely collected and frozen for use at a later time. www.shutterstock.com

Around 2000 BC breastfeeding was considered a religious obligation.

Now we understand why breast milk is the ideal food for babies, with evidence showing it provides substantial benefits to health even...

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Australia needs to invest if it wants the tourism boom to continue

  • Written by: David Beirman, Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney

Tourism has been the good news story for Australia’s economy over the past year. The latest numbers show 8.2 million international tourists visited Australia in the year to November. This is an 11.4% increase on the year before. Domestic tourism also grew 7% during this period.

Australia’s inbound tourism growth is almost triple the wor...

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Vital Signs: brace yourselves for the new economic reality

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Australia
imageWe could soon head into another volatile period.Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr, CC BY-ND

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: unemployment ticks...

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All hail Trump, the great transgressor!

  • Written by: Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
imageReuters/Jonathan Ernst

Since Big Brother first exploded onto our screens in 2000 I’ve been a fan of reality TV. In 2002 I wrote a book that included a defence of the genre’s democratising impact on our culture.

Where many commentators and more than a few of my academic colleagues dismissed reality TV as dumbed-down trash pandering to...

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  1. Australia's privacy laws gutted in court ruling on what is 'personal information'
  2. Aussie rules football still has a way to go to be considered 'feminist'
  3. Why don't we know how many people die in our hospitals?
  4. Baird's early exit means NSW loses a leader whose best years were yet to come
  5. 2016 crowned hottest year on record: Australia needs to get heat smart
  6. Australian science making some progress amid the march of ministers
  7. Is 2017 the year to ditch the term 'innovation'?
  8. Clemency for Chelsea Manning – but will Assange or Snowden also find the US merciful?
  9. Physical health ignored in people with mental illness
  10. The world's best wildlife photography reveals a fragile, beautiful realm
  11. Printing more money isn't the answer to all economic ills
  12. Australia needs stricter rules to curb air pollution, but there's a lot we could all do now
  13. If we scrapped the states, increasing Canberra's clout would be a backward step
  14. Explainer: Why the human voice is so versatile
  15. The search for MH370 is over: what we learnt and where to now
  16. Stinking dead fish portend major problem with carp herpes release
  17. University completion rates won't be improved by looking at isolated causes
  18. Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement
  19. Do 8 men really control the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population?
  20. What's in store for new health minister Greg Hunt?
  21. How professional sport handicaps youth sporting culture
  22. What next for the ASX and Blockchain in 2017?
  23. FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices?
  24. Xi Jinping may be preaching trade, but China's opening up has slowed
  25. When gentrification lacks empathy: a case study
  26. A genuinely believable CGI actor? It won't be long
  27. Ways to spend spare time online
  28. Unpaid work experience is widespread but some are missing out: new study
  29. Murky waters: why is Japan still whaling in the Southern Ocean?
  30. Turnbull makes a good start on expenses, but needs to go further
  31. Taking a VR trip in Shaun Gladwell's floating planetoid skull
  32. What’s the point of sex? It frames gender expression and identity – or does it?
  33. Why learn spelling or maths if there's an app for that?
  34. Brexit, Trump and the TPP mean Australia should pursue more bilateral trade agreements
  35. Australia needs to make sport a more equal playing field: here's why
  36. When politicians become pundits
  37. When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing
  38. The trouble with 'microaggressions'
  39. Let's kill the Australian identity card zombie once and for all
  40. Sit on hands or take a stand: why athletes have always been political players
  41. Elevated lead levels in Sydney backyards: here's what you can do
  42. When care becomes control - financial abuse cuts across cultures
  43. What's the point of sex? It's good for your physical, social and mental health
  44. Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?
  45. Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?
  46. A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy
  47. What we can all learn from the VW emissions saga
  48. Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city
  49. ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks
  50. How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms

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