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How’s your walnut, mate? Why men don't like to talk about their enlarged prostate

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageMen don't talk about their prostates - because they don't really know about them. Harry/Flickr, CC BY-SA

This is part of our series on hidden or stigmatised health conditions in men. Read the other articles in the series here.


Conversation about how often you have to get up at night for a piddle is probably not the most scintillating discourse. But...

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The Barkindji people are losing their 'mother', the drying Darling River

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

As I left the outback New South Wales town of Wilcannia after some historical research last year, Woddy Harris, a Barkindji man I had interviewed, gestured across the town and said: “Mother Nature will outlive all of this.” He was talking about Aboriginal survival in the Wilcannia area since white settlement in the 1850s.

Wilcannia is...

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