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Looking for a nursing home place for your parent with dementia? Here's what to consider

  • Written by: Louise Hickman, Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
imageIn addition to bed availability, look for specialist dementia wards, skilled staff and good communication channels.hxdbzxy/Shutterstock

This week’s ABC 7.30 footage of elder abuse in an Adelaide nursing home is an extreme example of how things can go wrong in the care of vulnerable older people with dementia. Suspecting mistreatment, the...

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Turnbull ban on Rudd's UN bid gives Liberal conservatives a win over Bishop

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThose around Malcolm Turnbull insist he really believes refusing Kevin Rudd the chance to be in the running to be UN secretary-general is the right thing to do.AAP/Joel Carrett

Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to stymie Kevin Rudd’s bid to run for the United Nations secretary-general post is ill-judged, unjustified and unfair.

It is a...

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Consumers lose out to Australia's protectionist anti-dumping laws

  • Written by: Alan Oxley, Chair, APEC Study Centre, expertise international trade law, economics, Asian regional development, RMIT University
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Australia’s anti-dumping system has become tool for protecting industries which aren’t competitive. Over time federal government has cranked up penalty charges on imports, such as steel, deemed unfairly under-priced, to protect these businesses. It’s Australian consumers who bear the cost.

In its latest Trade and Assistance Review,...

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The tragi-comedy Down Under appropriates Cronulla rather than offering insight

  • Written by: Dirk de Bruyn, Associate Professor of Screen, Deakin University
imageCourtesy of the Melbourne International Film Festival

Abe Forsythe’s black comedy Down Under is set the day after the 2005 Christmas Cronulla Riots and undertakes a re-processing of these events. It starts with newsreel footage that brings back this raw, racist national wound of running mob fights, the derisive calls, the cars, the drinking,...

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  1. As Indonesia conducts more executions, Australia's anti-death-penalty advocacy is still lacking
  2. Kevin gets canned
  3. How fiction helps us understand the reality of a mother abandoning her newborn baby
  4. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Don Dale royal commission
  5. After Philadephia, logic and numbers back Clinton for the win – but it's not that simple
  6. Turnbull kills Rudd's UN secretary-general bid
  7. No Kevin '17: Turnbull opts not to back Rudd for the UN's top job
  8. Being transgender is not a mental illness, and the WHO should acknowledge this
  9. The NT royal commission: it's a good start but more leadership is needed
  10. Report on industry assistance needs to go beyond just reporting costs
  11. Friday essay: worth a thousand words – how photos shape attitudes to refugees
  12. Separated parents and the family law system: what does the evidence say?
  13. Crippling rural debt looms as biggest threat to our beef producers
  14. Vital Signs: Get ready for the Aussie dollar to fall
  15. Rising players in higher education: the countries to watch out for
  16. Automation Can Leave Us Complacent, And That Can Have Dangerous Consequences
  17. The world's biggest cuckoos once roamed the Nullarbor Plain
  18. What are 'flat feet' in children and are they something to worry about?
  19. From act of terrorism to mental health symptom: we're shifting blame but at what cost?
  20. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull should move to add justice to Closing the Gap targets
  21. ANZ and Amex the winners in Australia's banks' fight with Apple over payment apps
  22. Rudd's fate in Turnbull's hands
  23. Ocean currents suggest where we should be looking for missing flight MH370
  24. Four qualities that helped small businesses survive the end of the resources boom
  25. Home is where the heart is: why we're getting couples therapy wrong
  26. Meter Maids, promotional models and our disturbingly hypersexual cities
  27. What kind of person joins a cult or joins a terror group?
  28. Explainer: the A, B, C, D and E of hepatitis
  29. Abuse in youth detention is not restricted to the Northern Territory
  30. Is netball a feminist triumph? Let's discuss
  31. Is Islamic banking more risky compared to conventional banking?
  32. ANZ wins class action on fees, but we still don't know the real cost of late payments
  33. Childhood shyness: when is it normal and when is it cause for concern?
  34. How far off is a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease?
  35. School is not always a safe place for students with disability – this has to change
  36. As surveillance gets smart, hackers get smarter
  37. All the Olympics are a stage, and all the athletes merely players: the rich history of the modern Games
  38. Cabinet battle over Rudd a test for Foreign Minister Bishop
  39. Tasmanian Senate result: 5 Labor, 4 Liberals, 2 Greens, 1 Lambie
  40. Dopey policy: is the IOC fit for purpose?
  41. Pokécology: people will never put down their phones, but games can get them focused on nature
  42. Why we're making no progress tackling the exploitation of migrant workers
  43. Weekly Dose: fentanyl, the anaesthetic that may have been used as a chemical weapon on Chechen rebels
  44. The backlash against open plan offices: segmented space
  45. Data gaps mean Indigenous incarceration rates may be even worse than we thought
  46. Asia’s ineffective diplomacy makes life difficult for Australia
  47. CCTV: who can watch whom under the law?
  48. How do you know you're not living in a computer simulation?
  49. When terror goes viral it's up to us to prevent chaos
  50. Ten facts you need to know about the chicken and eggs on your table

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