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Are you burnt out at work? Ask yourself these 4 questions

  • Written by: Michael Musker, Senior Research Fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
Are you burnt out at work? Ask yourself these 4 questionsIn today's digital age, we're losing the ability to switch off from our work.From shutterstock.com

It’s normal to feel stressed at work from time to time. But for some people, the stress becomes all-consuming, leading to exhaustion, cynicism and hatred towards your job. This is known as burnout.

Burnout used to be classified as a problem...

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Was there an 'ethnic vote' in the 2019 election and did it make a difference?

  • Written by: Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
Was there an 'ethnic vote' in the 2019 election and did it make a difference?Chinese-Australians have largely voted in line with the nation as a whole at the 2019 federal election.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Many factors appear to have contributed to the unexpected victory of the Coalition in the May 18 election. Two factors were predictable and had a devastating impact on the ALP vote where they were activated – ethno-religious...

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who's who in Labor's shadow ministry

  • Written by: Emil Jeyaratnam, Data + Interactives Editor, The Conversation

There were a couple of big questions before the new Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, announced his shadow ministry on Sunday.

One of those was where would former leader Bill Shorten end up after the party’s humbling loss in last month’s federal election. (The answer: head of the NDIS and government services portfolio.)

One of the...

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Thirty years on, China is still trying to whitewash the Tiananmen crackdown from its history

  • Written by: Chongyi Feng, Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney
Thirty years on, China is still trying to whitewash the Tiananmen crackdown from its historyThe official line in China is that the Tiananmen 'incident' was necessary for stability. This whitewashing of history has largely been accepted by many in China as the truth.How Hwee Young/EPA

General Wei Fenghe, China’s defence minister, surprised the world over the weekend.

In a speech at Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue — an...

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  4. ancient memories of maar volcanoes
  5. The search for an alternative to GDP to measure a nation's progress – the New Zealand experience
  6. The Blues have to battle the numbers if they're to make it two-in-a-row in State of Origin
  7. How big data can help residents find transport, jobs and homes that work for them
  8. Had pre-eclampsia in pregnancy? These 5 things will lower your risk of heart disease
  9. Blocking Huawei's 5G could isolate Australia from future economic opportunities
  10. what's the best way to sit?
  11. how would the disappearance of anglerfish affect our environment?
  12. Coalition likely to have strong Senate position as their Senate vote jumps 3%
  13. when I swipe a matchstick how does it make fire?
  14. female protagonists were largely invisible
  15. to set up good habits, make healthy choices the default at home
  16. the future or a washed-up idea?
  17. Five ethical questions for how we choose to use the Moon
  18. why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will probably lose money?
  19. Enough 'gotcha' campaign coverage. Here are five ways the media can better cover elections
  20. As privacy is lost a fingerprint at a time, a biometric rebel asserts our rights
  21. Kristina Keneally vs Peter Dutton should produce plenty of political bloodsport
  22. Adani's finch plan is approved, just weeks after being sent back to the drawing board
  23. an international superfood thousands of years in the making
  24. Children had no say in New Zealand's well-being budget, and that matters
  25. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Ken Wyatt's appointment
  26. 'Do I need to shave my pubic hair before having sex?'
  27. support for lower-emission business, transport, land use
  28. APRA is going to make it easier to borrow. It could be another one of its bad calls
  29. Why we're not giving up the search for mainland Australia's 'first extinct lizard'
  30. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the complex life of the 'poet of America'
  31. why Australia's policy on asylum seekers must change
  32. We've been given a pay rise. Were it not for concern about the economy, it would have been bigger
  33. As Morrison heads to the Pacific, our nearest neighbours will be looking for more than kind words
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  36. Traditional medicines must be integrated into health care for culturally diverse groups
  37. the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot
  38. Trees, the ancient Macedonians, and the world's first environmental disaster
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  40. Is it good for Labor, or Bill Shorten, for the former leader to stay in parliament?
  41. Politics and religion collide in the Knesset as Netanyahu faces the fight of his political life
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  44. humanising a cold case victim – writing the life and brutal death of Mollie Dean
  45. Mental health wins record funding in New Zealand's first 'well-being budget'
  46. Ken Wyatt faces challenges – and opportunities – as minister for Indigenous Australians
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