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Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their grief

  • Written by: Joanna Jaaniste, Career Development Fellow, Western Sydney University
Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their griefVisually expressing painful memories and feelings can help let things go. Belushi/Shutterstock

People with dementia can flourish and show creativity in ways they, their caregivers and loved ones never thought possible. Under the guidance of a trained therapist, creative arts therapies use painting, drama, dance and music to help improve quality of...

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Man Out of Time and the inheritance of suffering

  • Written by: Julienne van Loon, Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University
Man Out of Time and the inheritance of sufferingMan Out of Time is an affecting portrait of a family rocked by the patriarchal figure’s long-term depression.shutterstock

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.

Stephanie Bishop’s latest novel, Man Out of Time (Hachette, 2018), is a disturbing read. It...

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Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap

  • Written by: Chris Doucouliagos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University

This article is part of an election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read other pieces in the series here.


Some advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that trade unions are bad for productivity. “With few exceptions,” according to one American economist,...

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Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential poll

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential pollAt the May 18 poll, 40 of the nation's 76 senators are up for election.AAP/Mick Tsikas

There are 76 senators – 12 in each state and two in each territory. At a normal half-Senate election, half the state senators and all territory senators are elected, so 40 of the 76 senators are up for election on May 18. As tied votes are lost, it takes...

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  2. why do leaves fall off trees?
  3. Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
  4. helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children
  5. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  6. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  7. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  8. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  9. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  10. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  11. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  12. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  13. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  14. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  15. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  16. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  17. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  18. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  19. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  20. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  21. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  22. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  23. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  24. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  25. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  26. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?
  27. Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let's use it as a chance to talk
  28. How highly sexualised imagery is shaping 'influence' on Instagram
  29. Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?
  30. Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
  31. Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here
  32. are water crystals bad for the environment?
  33. why do we get motion sickness and what's the best way to treat it?
  34. Why Adani's finch plan was rejected, and what comes next
  35. 5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age
  36. how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings
  37. Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign
  38. the big tech business model
  39. why don't horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?
  40. how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice
  41. Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology
  42. For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter
  43. The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan
  44. is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?
  45. How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy
  46. What are the major parties promising on health this election?
  47. Bill Shorten's promise of a living wage is both realistic and necessary. But it's not enough.
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