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writing trauma in Cynthia Banham's A Certain Light

  • Written by: Tess Scholfield-Peters, PhD candidate in Creative Arts, University of Technology Sydney
writing trauma in Cynthia Banham's A Certain LightCynthia Banham with Kevin Rudd in 2008. Banham's memoir explores both the trauma she experienced during a plane crash in 2007 and her family's history.Dean Lewins/AAP

Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In a new series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen.


Former Fairfax journalist and lawyer Cynthia Banham voices...

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Nearly 1 in 4 of us aren't native English speakers. In a health-care setting, interpreters are essential

  • Written by: Sarah Verdon, Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Pathology, Charles Sturt University
Nearly 1 in 4 of us aren't native English speakers. In a health-care setting, interpreters are essentialInterpreters enable patients to be fully informed about their health condition and options for treatment.From shutterstock.com

This article is the third part in a series, Where culture meets health.


Almost one quarter of the Australian population speaks a language other than English at home. But health services in Australia are largely delivered in...

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Avoid the politics and let artificial intelligence decide your vote in the next election

  • Written by: Frank Mols, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, The University of Queensland
Avoid the politics and let artificial intelligence decide your vote in the next electionWould you let AI decide who you should vote for?Shutterstock/CYCLONEPROJECT

If trust in our politicians is at an all time low, maybe it’s time to reconsider how we elect them in the first place.

Can artificial intelligence (AI) help with our voting decisions?

Music and video streaming services already suggest songs, movies or TV shows that we...

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Crowded trains? Planning focus on cars misses new apartment impacts

  • Written by: Chris De Gruyter, Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, RMIT University
Crowded trains? Planning focus on cars misses new apartment impactsWhen most inner-city apartment residents don't use cars to get around, you can expect public transport to feel the impacts of new developments.Eric FIscher/Wikimedia, CC BY

Wondering why you can’t get a seat on the train? Perhaps it’s because we don’t actually know how many extra people will use public transport when new building...

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  1. Shorten's ratings rise as Labor holds its lead in Newspoll
  2. View from The Hill: Quick on the draw
  3. Labor's costings broadly check out. The days of black holes are behind us, thankfully
  4. Tony Costa wins the 2019 Archibald Prize
  5. New laws in Western Australia will help victims of family violence end their tenancies
  6. How I stumbled on a lost plant just north of Antarctica
  7. Teaching is too often seen as a fall-back option, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon
  8. can your employer sack you for what you say or do in your own time?
  9. do 86% of people visit the doctor for free?
  10. Focus groups suggest Wentworth is embracing Phelps, but Sharma helped by fear of Labor
  11. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Shorten's campaign moment
  12. Children are our future, and the planet's. Here's how you can teach them to take care of it
  13. Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?
  14. We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis
  15. will Whelan disendorsement make a difference in Tasmania?
  16. More First Nations people in parliament matters. Here’s why.
  17. separating the art from the badly behaved artist – a philosopher's view
  18. Giving workers a voice in the boardroom is a compelling corporate governance reform
  19. Ancient Rome inspired Washington but its legacy of being open to all has fallen into oblivion
  20. Many young women find pleasure in sexually explicit material but it still reinforces gender inequality
  21. Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
  22. When it came to the surplus, both Bill and Scott were having a lend
  23. A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?
  24. Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinction threat
  25. Mine are bigger than yours. Labor's surpluses are the Coalition's worst nightmare
  26. Bill Shorten's moment of "connection" brings back memories of Beaconsfield
  27. why humour is a hit-and-miss affair on the election campaign trail
  28. 'New low' for journalism? Why News Corp's partisan campaign coverage is harmful to democracy
  29. Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their grief
  30. Man Out of Time and the inheritance of suffering
  31. Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap
  32. Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential poll
  33. You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon Snow
  34. why do leaves fall off trees?
  35. Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
  36. helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children
  37. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  38. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  39. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  40. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  41. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  42. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  43. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  44. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  45. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  46. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  47. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  48. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  49. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
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