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How the desire for masculinity might drive some disadvantaged young men to substance abuse

  • Written by Kathryn Daley, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, RMIT University
imageYoung men with problem drug-use have high rates of mental health problems and backgrounds of contact with child protection.from shutterstock.com

Males make up two-thirds of people accessing alcohol and other drug services; 75% of them have been involved in the justice system.

Those with problem drug use also have high rates of mental health problems...

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The Rise of the Joyful Economy

  • Written by Jason Potts, Professor of Economics, RMIT University

The relationship between the art world and the market economy has long been one of Sturm und Drang. Deep down, a battle of weltanschauung plays out between light and dark, sky and earth, imagination and rationality, between two different value systems that still must occupy the same physical, political and moral universe.

The great value of modern...

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The voter paradox: we say we don't want a minority government, but we're happy to vote for one

  • Written by Peter John Chen, Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
imageWith voters increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties, microparties such as those led by Jacqui Lambie and Nick Xenophon will play a bigger role.AAP/Mick Tsikas

In the last few weeks of this longest of election campaigns the conversation has turned to the question of certainty.

The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has been arguing...

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Risks, ethics and consent: Australia shouldn't become the world's nuclear wasteland

  • Written by Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UNSW Australia

Last month the South Australian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission recommended that the state government develop a business venture to store a large fraction of the world’s high- and intermediate-level nuclear power station wastes in South Australia. It proposes to do this by first building an interim above-ground store, to be followed by...

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  1. What’s the 'ethnic vote' going to do in Australia's top-ten ethnic marginal seats?
  2. Full response from Pathology Australia
  3. Full response from Catholic Health Australia
  4. Election FactCheck: has the Coalition cut bulk-billing for pathology and scans 'to make patients pay more'?
  5. Despite the rhetoric, this election fails the feminist test
  6. Unit pricing saves money but is the forgotten shopping tool
  7. Labor's proposed competition reforms do little to address inequality
  8. Doctors still provide too many dying patients with needless treatment
  9. Bad behaviour in bars and pubs is a problem, but most of Australia's alcohol is drunk at home
  10. We can have fish and dams: here's how
  11. Let's talk about the space industry in Australia's election campaign
  12. Abbott would have lost 'resoundingly': Turnbull
  13. The Indi Project: 'Soft' voters trust Turnbull over Shorten to run the country
  14. Lessons from Brexit: the fruits of globalisation must be shared with low- and middle-income groups
  15. Brexit: act in haste...
  16. The Briefcase: does Australia's 'most exploitative reality show' breach broadcasting rules?
  17. Election FactCheck: Have 300,000 new jobs been created in the last calendar year and were almost two-thirds held by women?
  18. How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish
  19. Australia should aim for a trade deal with the UK post Brexit
  20. Australia doesn't need a plebiscite on same-sex marriage – Ireland's experience shows why
  21. Higher education gets short shrift in the election campaign, and we are all the poorer for it
  22. Health Check: is caffeine actually bad for kids?
  23. The same kind of 'silent majority' that spoke on Brexit may also be a force here
  24. 'The urban': a concept under stress in an interconnected world
  25. For the English, Brexit will mean economic pain
  26. Election 2016: will the infrastructure promises meet Australia's needs?
  27. A focus on economics (the dismal science) has produced a dismal election debate
  28. Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley seven times national average
  29. Rush to dam northern Australia comes at the expense of sustainability
  30. Wind and solar PV have won the race – it's too late for other clean energy technologies
  31. Life lessons from the editing suite of Paul Cox
  32. How Australia played the world's first music on a computer
  33. Malcolm Turnbull invokes Brexit to reinforce his campaign, as Newspoll has Coalition moving ahead
  34. Labor costings pass, but scare tactics detract
  35. Labor costings: ALP deficit $16.5 billion higher over the budget period
  36. Malcolm Turnbull: don't risk change or protest
  37. Europe endless, or Europe ending?
  38. After Brexit, keep a close watch on Italy and its Five Star Movement
  39. Paying the piper and calling the tune? Following ClubsNSW's political donations
  40. Warning Sign: Trigger Warnings and Externalities
  41. Brexit rocks Australian sharemarket, worse to come
  42. Stella’s Girls Write Up tells kids good writing starts with having something to say
  43. Brexit stage right: what Britain's decision to leave the EU means for Australia
  44. Post-plebiscite conscience vote on same-sex marriage is not the risk
  45. Healthy microbes make for a resilient Great Barrier Reef
  46. Leave wins UK Brexit referendum 52-48
  47. What's wrong with the web and do we need to fix it?
  48. Are itchier insect bites more likely to make us sick?
  49. India's looking for a new central bank governor to perform a tough balancing act
  50. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Medicare scare campaign
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