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Antidepressants may not be as effective as we thought, and shouldn't be the only treatment for depression

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imageAustralians are some of the biggest anti-depressant users in the world.Volkan Olmez/Unsplash, FAL

The treatment of depression too often means treatment with antidepressants. Australia has one of the highest rates of antidepressant use in the world. This continues to increase despite mounting evidence they are not especially effective.

My colleague An...

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Many young people aren't enrolled to vote – but are we asking them the wrong question?

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imageStudies have shown that young people do not consider politicians and political parties to be representative of issues that impact them.AAP/Lukas Coch

As soon as the 2016 federal election was called, the race was on to find those who are dragging their heels to the ballot box. While nearly one million eligible Australians are not enrolled to vote,...

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  2. Macho kitchens, sludge eating techies and 'miracle' diets: how did food get so tricky?
  3. Protecting your privacy if you use a route mapping app
  4. E-cigarettes: too important to be regulated?
  5. From top dog to underdog – Tony Windsor's fight in New England
  6. China: (not) talking about a revolution
  7. Money, Capitalism and the Slow Death of Social Democracy
  8. Donald Trump: both the old crazy and the new normal
  9. Shorten wins first debate
  10. What a tiny micrometeorite from the Pilbara can tell us about the ancient sky
  11. The linguistic dirt on that dirty little word tax
  12. Welcome to Election FactCheck 2016
  13. 'Mr Habourside Mansion' – Credlin gives Turnbull a moniker with cut-through
  14. Consumers feel glum about the budget, but will it matter at the voting box?
  15. The things people ask about the scientific consensus on climate change
  16. Separation anxiety disorder: not just for kids
  17. High Court unanimously rejects challenge to Senate voting reform
  18. Carnage in the arts: experts respond to the Australia Council cuts
  19. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the first week of the election campaign
  20. Covering the election beyond our memes: what role for visual politics and social media?
  21. Can 7-Eleven be trusted to clean up its own mess?
  22. Full response from ACOSS
  23. Election FactCheck Q A: is Australia among the lowest-taxing countries in the OECD?
  24. The Sykes-Picot Agreement and the making of the modern Middle East
  25. Obsession with Sykes-Picot says more about what we think of Arabs than history
  26. Explainer: what is the 100-year-old Sykes-Picot Agreement?
  27. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull and Shorten play to voters who are yet to engage
  28. Why the death of employment is a dead idea
  29. Carbon taxes, emissions trading and electricity prices: making sense of the scare campaigns
  30. South Australia is now coal-free, and batteries could fill the energy gap
  31. Why neither party should ignore gender in this election
  32. Science or Snake Oil: can a detox actually cleanse your liver?
  33. Friday essay: from Daenerys to Yara - the top ten women of Game of Thrones
  34. Lecturers: encourage your students to enrol and vote in the election
  35. Students are using 'smart' spy technology to cheat in exams
  36. Why the long face: just how risky is horse riding?
  37. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, April 2016
  38. How Scared or Hopeful Should We Be in a Warming World?
  39. Kepler finds more 'Earth-like planets', but are they really like Earth?
  40. Milk price cuts reflect the reality of sweeping changes in global dairy market
  41. The danger of overselling science
  42. From whales to insects, the Fraser Island dingo diet is a dog’s breakfast
  43. Unfair if rare: should the PBS change the way it lists cancer drugs?
  44. Uber’s quasi union could be a Faustian bargain for drivers
  45. Why you should never put a goldfish in a park pond ... or down the toilet
  46. Election 2016: the most exciting time to be multicultural in Australia?
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