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Six challenges facing Australia’s medical research sector

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageRestraining the growth in costs and providing better treatments and cures needs a healthy national medical research effort.Dave Hunt/AAP

This is an edited version of a speech about the challenges facing medical research given by outgoing National Health and Medicine Research Council (NHMRC) CEO Warwick Anderson at the National Press Club today.

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Two-for-one: a good new High Court judge, and a woman to boot

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imageThree of the seven seats in the High Court of Australia will soon be filled by women judges.Lukas Coch/AAP

The almost equal gender balance on the High Court of Australia has been restored with the announcement that Federal Court judge Michelle Gordon will replace Justice Kenneth Hayne. When she takes her seat on the bench in June this year as the...

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  3. Sexology exhibition sets out to lay bare truths but it's a repressed affair
  4. Why Bergen-Belsen's 1945 liberation is ingrained in British memory
  5. Manifesto Check: Labour's immigration policies are led by public opinion, not evidence
  6. Roar of China's 'Great Cannon' heard across the internet
  7. Why the British election should be more like a student ballot
  8. EU initiative risks turning Roma into entertainers, not real people with human rights
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  11. State of imprisonment: out one day, back the next in Queensland
  12. Explainer: how does today's Direct Action reverse auction work?
  13. Let's honour the Anzacs by making two-up illegal again
  14. How the Great War shaped the foundations of Australia's future
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  16. China economy to slow, hurting Australia: IMF
  17. The Tax white paper - only good for fish and chips now?
  18. Manifesto Check: Labour ready to go green, but remains grey on detail
  19. If Cameron wants a property owning democracy, he has to support the mansion tax
  20. Manifesto Check: Green Party has no clear vision on the EU
  21. Pledge-filled manifestos can't solve chronic image problems
  22. Green Party opts for quantity with huge manifesto wishlist
  23. Conservative manifesto launch: Cameron shines, but dark clouds are on the horizon
  24. Manifesto Check: stacking up Labour's deficit reduction plans
  25. We must talk to terrorists to restore their humanity – and ours
  26. State of the nation: the immigration numbers game
  27. Conservative housing plan is a blast from the past – amid a 21st-century crisis
  28. Beyond GDP: economic growth may not be enough to get voters on your side
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  30. Who thinks adults don't fight over (tax) money?
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