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How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids

  • Written by: Tom Calma, Adjunct Professor, Australian National University
imageIndigenous kids experience more major life events than non-Indigenous kids, and this can affect their health. Rusty Stewart/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Footprints in Time, or its more formal title, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), is approaching its tenth year of collecting data from around 1,700 Indigenous children, their families and...

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Deaths at Dreamworld theme park could lead to safety changes for amusement rides

  • Written by: David Eager, Assistant Student Ombud and Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Investigations are under way following the tragic accident at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast on Tuesday that left four people dead.

Queensland Police say initial investigations show that six people were on board one of the rafts on the Thunder River Rapids ride when it “impacted” with another raft. This caused the raft to...

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Business Briefing: being funny with customers

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation
imageJoking around with customers can improve satisfaction, as long as its the right jokes!Zeetz Jones/Flickr, CC BY-SA

As part of a research team, Christine Mathies from the University of New South Wales Business School stood outside a suburban retailer (who had volunteered to be part of the study) and quizzed customers who came out on their experience...

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Another prime minister, another endorsement for coal – but why?

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Here’s a quick politics quiz. Who said this?

Australia has a major stake in the fossil fuel industries… Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and the fifth largest exporter of LNG. We have just below one-tenth of the world’s known coal reserves. Coal has been a major contributor to our nation’s prosperity...

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  2. Life interrupted: young people need help moving forward after cancer
  3. A Trump presidency could bring a range of economic disasters
  4. New APRA guidance on lending will hurt home owners when it should be the banks
  5. Robert Manne: How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers
  6. Looking Back at Italy 1992: Internet Politics comes of age
  7. Wrapping up the fantasy - how will Game of Thrones end?
  8. What causes mind blanks during exams?
  9. 'He' vs 'she' in Australian media coverage: what the language of news tells us about gender imbalance
  10. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on The Secret Cold War - The Official History of ASIO
  11. Piketty challenges us to consider if we need to rein in wealth inequality
  12. Why sugar is so much worse for teenagers' brains
  13. Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
  14. Senate committee on ABS #CensusFail still points to basic failures on IBM's part
  15. Gateway classes: a pattern for interacting with external services
  16. How is the American President elected?
  17. Brandis mishandles a fight he should never have had
  18. How can doctors use technology to help them diagnose?
  19. Melanesia's oceans are worth US$5.4 billion but are at environmental crossroads
  20. Change Agents: Stuart Morris and Leonie Hemingway on Australia's most radical reform of local government
  21. Paid parental leave plan ignores economics of well-functioning families
  22. Blockchain: reinventing the squeaky wheel
  23. Women's alcohol consumption catching up to men: why this matters
  24. Role of Solicitor-General has been damaged and the government must work to fix it
  25. Behind the scenes: creative commons publishing
  26. Reducing food waste could put birds and animals at risk
  27. Challenging the ‘birthright lottery’ can provide a better way to view refugees
  28. The election of Hillary Clinton promises a more dangerous world
  29. Asian home buyers less likely to default on their mortgage: study
  30. There’s no ‘Mars curse’ – it's just very hard to land there
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  32. Ambivalent, exquisite and playful: the wonder of Viktor Rolf
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  34. Explainer: how do you get shingles and who should be vaccinated against it?
  35. Solicitor-General resigns – with a parting broadside at Brandis
  36. Solutions beyond supply to the housing affordability problem
  37. The curious power of hate propaganda in open societies
  38. Looking back at Italy 1992: the sudden spring of civil society
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  40. The off-topic Conversation #110
  41. History of Russian populism provides important lessons for today
  42. Spectacular cost blowouts show need to keep governments honest on transport
  43. Does CCTV footage help or hinder the reduction of violence against women?
  44. Buggered if I know where I am: the stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
  45. The gas industry needs a carbon price to compete with coal
  46. What we know about perineal tearing, and how to reduce it during childbirth
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