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Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?

  • Written by: David Ireland, Electronic Engineer and Computer Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
imageA smartphone can be useful to help monitor your behaviour.Shutterstock/GooGag

Smartphones come with an assortment of sensors that can track behaviours such as our internet search and browse history, where we go, what music we listen to, who we speak to, just to name a few.

The habitual nature of people means this data could be used to give insight...

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Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'

  • Written by: César Albarrán Torres, Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
imageMaria Schneider and Marlon Brando in a scene from Last Tango in Paris. Les Productions Artistes Associés

Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris has long been considered a classic film, a boundary-breaking meditation on 20th-century loneliness and sexual politics. Released in 1972, it stars Maria Schneider (1952-2011) and Marlon...

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Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageWe can't say whether introducing competition to the health sector would work in the same way as other markets. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The Productivity Commission’s study report on introducing competition into human services was quickly labelled as proposing privatisation of hospital, end-of-life and dental services.

This isn’t...

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Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has lashed out at the prospect of the Turnbull government scrapping one of his signature programs, the Green Army.

The Australian Financial Review has reported that the Green Army will be abolished in the December 19 budget update after getting A$360 million over the forward estimates in the May budget to support...

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  1. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  2. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
  3. Goodbye, Dolly, the magazine that helped so many young women grow up
  4. Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
  5. Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here's how we find out
  6. Health Check: do home remedies for common warts really work?
  7. Why don't more people volunteer? Misconceptions don't help
  8. Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
  9. Neighbours' fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts
  10. From 'fascists' to 'feminazis': how both sides of politics are biased in their political thinking
  11. The worst year for mosquitoes ever? Here's how we find out
  12. Can we blame climate change for thunderstorm asthma?
  13. The Business Council of Australia and its new head need a reality check
  14. Imitation game: how copies can solve our cultural heritage crises
  15. What can Australia learn from Germany's remarkable energy transition?
  16. Nitrogen pollution: the forgotten element of climate change
  17. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 3
  18. The underbelly of sport: Dirty Games
  19. Trump rewrites the diplomatic rule book
  20. Will Italy's referendum trigger the next crisis?
  21. A New Politics of Time
  22. ABCC amended local content rules will help Australian steelmakers compete against low-quality imports
  23. Pinchgut's Theodora brings the irrational power of love to uncertain times
  24. Inquiry into Lyme-like illness calls for more research and better treatment
  25. South Australia's reasons for voting down euthanasia go against the evidence
  26. Great Barrier Reef report to UN shows the poor progress on water quality
  27. Three ways to boost science performance in Australian schools
  28. On the pleasure of smoking
  29. Looking back at Italy 1992: a country stuck in the centre in 2016
  30. Everyone's talking but no-one's listening: it's time to reclaim the art of communication
  31. Parliament finishes for 2016, capping off a messy, turbulent year
  32. Don't expect a rerun of the Asian Financial Crisis
  33. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the final week of parliament
  34. A tiny wasp could save Christmas Island's spectacular red crabs from crazy ants
  35. Why the health and agriculture sectors need to work together to stop antibiotic resistance
  36. Why Australia should trial the new phonics screening check
  37. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 2
  38. How hard will it be for Australia to extradite and prosecute Neil Prakash?
  39. Look up: how policy gaps and failure blind us to what's going on in Indigenous affairs
  40. Explainer: what is scurvy and is it making a comeback?
  41. Friday essay: the Rise and Fall of oil in popular culture
  42. Despite the hype, batteries aren't the cheapest way to store energy on the grid
  43. Investors and speculators aren't disrupting the water markets
  44. Vital Signs: the data that won't help the government on housing supply
  45. Why people love to delude themselves with sports rituals and superstitions
  46. Grattan on Friday: Can Malcolm Turnbull persuade sceptical voters he is delivering?
  47. The age of uncertainty is upon us, and we'd better get used to it
  48. Government gives Greens $100 million for Landcare to get backpacker tax deal
  49. Australia's Google Tax may be the second in the world but it's too early to tell if it's the 'toughest'
  50. Got high cholesterol? Here are five foods to eat and avoid

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