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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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  4. E-cigarettes: too important to be regulated?
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  7. Money, Capitalism and the Slow Death of Social Democracy
  8. Donald Trump: both the old crazy and the new normal
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  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
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  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?
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  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
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  26. Explainer: what is the 100-year-old Sykes-Picot Agreement?
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  30. South Australia is now coal-free, and batteries could fill the energy gap
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  36. Why the long face: just how risky is horse riding?
  37. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, April 2016
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