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Can cycling help with grief and depression?

  • Written by: Craig Fry, Associate Professor, Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University

My father Lindsay Fry passed away suddenly eight months ago. He had end stage cancer, which was found well advanced on his lung and spine. Sadly, my father died just seven weeks after his diagnosis. He was two weeks short of his 70th birthday.

I was not prepared at all for my father’s death. It was a great shock, and the resulting grief...

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Is Medicare under threat? Making sense of the privatisation debate

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute

Many Australians will go to the polls on July 2 believing the future of Medicare is at stake. In a sense it is – but not because of the government’s plans, now ditched under the heat of a campaign, to outsource IT functions.

The greater threats to our national public health system lie in the increasing role of consumer co-payments and...

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The sound of silence: why has the environment vanished from election politics?

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
imageIt's quiet out there, too quiet. Outback image from wwww.shutterstock.com

There’s a deafening silence in the ongoing Australian election campaign over the environment. Polling shows increasing public support for greater action on climate change but debate has been mostly missing.

And despite some blows traded over the Great Barrier Reef, the...

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Timeline: Australia's climate policy

  • Written by: Annabelle Workman, PhD student, Australian-German Climate and Energy College and EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges, University of Melbourne
imageAustralia's Renewable Energy Target was reduced in 2015. Wind turbine image from www.shutterstock.com

With the Australian federal election just over a week away, it’s a good time to review the key milestones in Australian climate policy since the last federal election in September 2013.

After winning office, the Abbott government successfully r...

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  1. Views from abroad: how is the world seeing Australia's election?
  2. What's the key to home ownership for Gen Y?
  3. How the major parties' policies compare on business and finance regulation
  4. Here's looking at Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with monkeys
  5. One in five early childhood educators plan to leave the profession
  6. Referendum Day in the Dis-United Kingdom
  7. No massacres and an accelerating decline in overall gun deaths: the impact of Australia’s major 1996 gun law reforms
  8. Labor moves its scare campaign onto vaccination register
  9. Barnaby Joyce might seek another portfolio
  10. Managing same-sex marriage plebiscite would be a challenge for Turnbull within his own ranks
  11. The need for speed: there's still time to fix Australia's NBN
  12. Explainer: what is ‘value capture’ and what does it mean for cities?
  13. How is the UK's Brexit referendum different from Australian referendums?
  14. Why the Prime Minister's Literary Awards need an urgent overhaul
  15. The fossil-fuelled political economy of Australian elections
  16. Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship
  17. Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others
  18. Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems
  19. Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading
  20. Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?
  21. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  22. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  23. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  24. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  25. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  26. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  27. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  28. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  29. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  30. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  31. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  32. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  33. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  34. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  35. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  36. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  37. How should reading be taught in schools?
  38. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  39. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  40. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  41. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  42. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  43. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  44. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  45. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  46. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  47. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  48. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  49. Internships help students better manage their careers
  50. Explainer: the art of video game writing

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Car Import Timeline: What Usually Happens at Each Stage

Importing a car into Australia can feel confusing because multiple agencies and checkpoints are involved, and the timeline is shaped as much by paperwork quality as it is by shipping speed. The most u...

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Portable Toilet Hygiene Standards Explained: Clean vs Sanitised vs Disinfected

In portable toilet servicing, the words clean, sanitised, and disinfected often get used as if they mean the same thing. They don’t. And that difference matters because a unit can look tidy and still ...

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What Actually Makes a Good Criminal Lawyer in Melbourne

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Why Working With A Chatswood Tutor Can Improve Academic Performance

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Is It Worth Getting Solar Panels in Melbourne?

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Why Pre-Purchase Building Inspections Are Essential Before Buying a Home in Australia

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