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Indonesia's 'war on drugs' may bring health crisis

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imageIn its 'war on drugs', Indonesia's narcotics agency targets not only drug producers, dealers and couriers – but also users. shutterstock

Indonesia’s “war on drugs” is jeopardising years of hard work by civil society and public health sector to provide harm-reduction interventions. These have successfully reduced rates of HIV...

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Why are our 15 year olds falling behind in reading and writing?

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Our 15 year olds are continuing to fall behind in literacy, according to latest figures from the national testing scheme NAPLAN.

So far, the solutions devised by our politicians have been useless.

First the Labor government decided that naming and shaming schools on the public website M...

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