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Palliative care should be embraced, not feared

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imagePalliative care aims to comfort rather than cure.from shutterstock.com

This is one of two final articles in our Coping with Mortality series. Today’s accompanying piece looks at how the very old view death and their preferences for care at the end of life. You can read previous articles in our series here.


Palliative care programs are well...

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Grattan on Friday: Labor loses skin on border issue, but Turnbull will pay a price too

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Anticipation is core business for political strategists. Last year Bill Shorten and those around him correctly judged Labor was electorally exposed on border protection, and they had the ALP national conference change party policy to allow turnbacks.

What they didn’t anticipate was how vulnerable Labor would remain on the issue. They thought...

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Friday essay: It Felt Like a Kiss - movies, popular music and Martin Scorsese

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageJodie Foster, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese on the set of Taxi Driver in 1976.Sikelia Productions, New York

Music and movies are umbilically entwined in the films of Martin Scorsese. It’s almost impossible to think of his cinema without the propulsive accompaniment of a track by The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, a...

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