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'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like

  • Written by Dina Bowman, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne

People in low income households have methods of getting by on what little they have and these work in the short term. But in the longer term a mess of factors hinder people’s capacity to make do, according to the preliminary results of our new research. These include insecure employment and a lack of adequate income support and affordable...

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The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians

  • Written by Gillian Dooley, Adjunct associate, Flinders University
imageWilliam Westall's drawing of the body of an Indigenous man shot at Blue Mud Bay (1803).National Library of Australia

The Investigator arrived off Cape Leeuwin, on the southwest tip of Western Australia, on 6 December 1801, captained by the 26-year-old Matthew Flinders. Feeling as though I know Flinders well through working on his personal writings o...

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Listen up: running sounds contain clues for injury prevention

  • Written by Leo Ng, Senior Lecturer (Physiotherapy), Curtin University
imageLanding your feet quietly may help prevent running injuries. Franck AUDEBRAND/flickr , CC BY-SA

The number of Australians who run for exercise has doubled since the mid-2000s. Preventing and managing injuries are common concerns, and can present an ongoing health burden and high cost if not addressed appropriately.

But what if listening to the...

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Australia's political elites are fiddling while Rome burns

  • Written by Joseph Camilleri, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
imageAustralia's major parties seem uninterested or unable to respond to a drastically transformed world.AAP/Lukas Coch

Australians are used to the vulgar antics and empty point-scoring that pass for debate in federal parliament. But little could have prepared them for the current descent into pure farce.

Politics divorced from political reality

The US...

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  1. Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
  2. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 4
  3. The 'no' vote in Italy's referendum triggers economic and political uncertainty
  4. Tipping the scales on Christmas Island: wasps and bugs use other species, so why can’t we?
  5. Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
  6. Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'
  7. Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
  8. Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army
  9. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  10. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
  11. Goodbye, Dolly, the magazine that helped so many young women grow up
  12. Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
  13. Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here's how we find out
  14. Health Check: do home remedies for common warts really work?
  15. Why don't more people volunteer? Misconceptions don't help
  16. Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
  17. Neighbours' fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts
  18. From 'fascists' to 'feminazis': how both sides of politics are biased in their political thinking
  19. The worst year for mosquitoes ever? Here's how we find out
  20. Can we blame climate change for thunderstorm asthma?
  21. The Business Council of Australia and its new head need a reality check
  22. Imitation game: how copies can solve our cultural heritage crises
  23. What can Australia learn from Germany's remarkable energy transition?
  24. Nitrogen pollution: the forgotten element of climate change
  25. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 3
  26. The underbelly of sport: Dirty Games
  27. Trump rewrites the diplomatic rule book
  28. Will Italy's referendum trigger the next crisis?
  29. A New Politics of Time
  30. ABCC amended local content rules will help Australian steelmakers compete against low-quality imports
  31. Pinchgut's Theodora brings the irrational power of love to uncertain times
  32. Inquiry into Lyme-like illness calls for more research and better treatment
  33. South Australia's reasons for voting down euthanasia go against the evidence
  34. Great Barrier Reef report to UN shows the poor progress on water quality
  35. Three ways to boost science performance in Australian schools
  36. On the pleasure of smoking
  37. Looking back at Italy 1992: a country stuck in the centre in 2016
  38. Everyone's talking but no-one's listening: it's time to reclaim the art of communication
  39. Parliament finishes for 2016, capping off a messy, turbulent year
  40. Don't expect a rerun of the Asian Financial Crisis
  41. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the final week of parliament
  42. A tiny wasp could save Christmas Island's spectacular red crabs from crazy ants
  43. Why the health and agriculture sectors need to work together to stop antibiotic resistance
  44. Why Australia should trial the new phonics screening check
  45. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 2
  46. How hard will it be for Australia to extradite and prosecute Neil Prakash?
  47. Look up: how policy gaps and failure blind us to what's going on in Indigenous affairs
  48. Explainer: what is scurvy and is it making a comeback?
  49. Friday essay: the Rise and Fall of oil in popular culture
  50. Despite the hype, batteries aren't the cheapest way to store energy on the grid
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