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We know contact with nature makes you feel better. Can virtual contact do the same?

  • Written by: Navjot Bhullar, Associate Professor - Faculty of Medicine and Health; School of Psychology, University of New England
We know contact with nature makes you feel better. Can virtual contact do the same?There is a link between exposure to natural settings and better psychological well-being.Shutterstock

You might have noticed that being in nature can improve your mood. Whether it’s walking in a beautiful rainforest, swimming in the ocean or a moment of wonder at the plants and animals around you, nature offers a respite from daily routines...

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Can a sperm donor be a legal parent? In landmark decision, the High Court says yes

  • Written by: Cassandra Seery, Associate Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
Can a sperm donor be a legal parent? In landmark decision, the High Court says yesThere are competing laws at the state and Commonwealth level that define who can be determined as a "parent," a conflict the High Court decision did not necessarily clear up.Shutterstock

On Wednesday, the High Court handed down a landmark decision that confirmed parentage rights to a man who donated his sperm to a woman who wanted to have a child.

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Australia's energy exports increase global greenhouse emissions, not decrease them

  • Written by: Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

When unveiling government data revealing Australia’s rising greenhouse emissions, federal energy minister Angus Taylor sought to temper the news by pointing out that much of the increase is due to liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, and claiming that these exports help cut emissions elsewhere.

LNG exports, Taylor argued, help to reduce...

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Playing games? It's a serious way to win community backing for change

  • Written by: Anthony Duckworth, Assistant Professor, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of Western Australia

How would you and your neighbours triple the number of households in your street block in order to keep your cherished suburb thriving and do your bit to tackle urban sprawl? You have a number of choices to make. Where do the new homes go? How big should they be? What do you do with the old houses on your street? How do you maintain the leafy,...

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  1. Four laws that need urgent reform to protect both national security and press freedom
  2. Netflix is opening its first Australian HQ. What does this mean for the local screen industry?
  3. Sport is full of conspiracy theories – Chris Froome’s horrific cycling crash is just the latest example
  4. 50 years after Australia's historic 'equal pay' decision, the legacy of 'women's work' remains
  5. The three things universities must do to survive disruption
  6. What do Aboriginal Australians want from their aged care system? Community connection is number one
  7. Setka gets backing from group of unions as split deepens
  8. US-Iran conflict escalates again, raising the threat of another war in the Middle East
  9. Paladin contract secrecy highlights our broken refugee system
  10. Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too far
  11. Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work
  12. a stylish, enjoyable, historically informed opera premiere
  13. How to answer the argument that Australia's emissions are too small to make a difference
  14. Below zero is ‘reverse’. How the Reserve Bank would make quantitative easing work
  15. Five films not to miss from the 2019 Sydney Film Festival
  16. How advertising can repurpose itself to serve cities in more sustainable ways
  17. CSIRO Australian National Outlook 2019
  18. the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
  19. what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
  20. education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
  21. forget court action – you won't win
  22. what is 'hybrid warfare' and what is meant by the 'grey zone'?
  23. Pressure builds with more protests in Hong Kong, but what's the end game?
  24. There's a looming waste crisis from Australia's solar energy boom
  25. who came up with the first letters?
  26. With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending
  27. how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
  28. We asked people to do climate change maths. Their answers depended on their politics
  29. What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job
  30. Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous
  31. More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help
  32. how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services
  33. The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
  34. Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
  35. Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
  36. Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
  37. Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
  38. Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
  39. Michelle Grattan on John Setka, press freedom, Adani approval and tax
  40. Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
  41. Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
  42. what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soar
  43. How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
  44. is white meat as bad for your cholesterol levels as red meat?
  45. the all-knowing narrator in Kim Scott's Taboo
  46. City temperatures and city economics, a hidden relationship between sun and wind and profits
  47. Children with autism may use memory differently. Understanding this could help us teach them
  48. Sick with the flu? Here's why you feel so bad
  49. Barry Humphries' humour is now history – that's the fate of topical, satirical comedy
  50. the RBA's marching orders are no longer realistic. They'll have to change

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