This week the AFL announced the eight teams that have gained licences to play in the first national AFL women’s competition, catapulting girls and women’s participation in football into the national spotlight.

Women have been playing Australian rules football since the early 20th century. They’ve also played in structured leagues...

Most Australians are familiar with the Cancer Council’s slogans reminding us to “slip, slop, slap”, and that “there’s nothing healthy about a tan”.

Now a controversial injectable tanning agent Melanotan is growing in popularity. But how safe is it, and can it protect us from the sun’s damage?

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In April 2011, not long after Julia Gillard was returned to power in the 2010 federal election, I asked a representative sample of Australians about their attitudes to climate policy.

Climate was a water-cooler issue at the time. The carbon tax legislation had been introduced into Parliament in March, paving the way for a subsequent emissions...