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Vicki Laveau-Harvie's remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize

  • Written by: Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
Vicki Laveau-Harvie's remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella PrizeVicki Laveau-Harvie has won the 2019 Stella Prize for her memoir The Erratics. With rare honesty, the book shatters expectations of what a mother should be.Stella Prize

Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s memoir of a “monstrous” mother has won the 2019 Stella Prize. The Erratics tells the story of Vicki’s return home to a prairie house...

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Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie

  • Written by: Mark Patrick Taylor, Professor of Environmental Science, Macquarie University
Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port PiriePort Pirie has been a world-leading centre for lead and zinc smelting and processing since 1889. sondem/AAP

Current smelting emissions from the Nyrstar smelter in the South Australian city of Port Pirie continue to pose a clear risk of harm to local children, our research has found.

Port Pirie has been a world-leading centre for lead and zinc...

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The Coalition's report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
The Coalition's report card on health includes some passes and quite a few failsThe Coalition's record on health is patchy, at best. Meanwhile, Labor is already campaigning hard on Medicare. Shutterstock

This article is part of a series examining the Coalition government’s record on key issues while in power and what Labor is promising if it wins the 2019 federal election.

The Turnbull/Morrison government has a mixed...

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More hospitals will not cure Australia's ailing health-care system. There's a more efficient way

  • Written by: Steven Bond-Smith, Research Fellow, Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
More hospitals will not cure Australia's ailing health-care system. There's a more efficient wayThere needs to be more focus on treating people before they need a hospital. Shutterstock

The federal government has just promised to increase spending on public hospitals from A$21.7 billion in 2018 to A$26.2 billion by 2023. Expect more hospital promises in coming weeks. There is a long history of parties at both state and federal level pledging...

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  1. From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations
  2. Coalition gets a bounce in Newspoll, but not in Ipsos or Essential
  3. The ABC didn't receive a reprieve in the budget. It's still facing staggering cuts
  4. Squid team finds high species diversity off Kermadec Islands, part of stalled marine reserve proposal
  5. green-collar criminals or civil 'disobedients'?
  6. Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine
  7. the curious case of shy lizards and deadly cane toads
  8. Business-as-usual record on transport leaves next government plenty of room to improve
  9. NZ journalists arrested in Fiji have been released but a new era of press freedom is yet to arrive
  10. A detailed eucalypt family tree helps us see how they came to dominate Australia
  11. The 14 Indigenous words for money on the new 50 cent coin
  12. What will the Coalition be remembered for on tax? Tinkering, blunders and lost opportunities
  13. Politicians need to listen up before they speak up – and listen in the right places
  14. Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed
  15. Which families delay sending their child to school, and why? We crunched the numbers
  16. We need new rules for defining who is sick. Step 1: remove vested interests
  17. In Australia, climate policy battles are endlessly reheated
  18. Australia has a new National Construction Code, but it's still not good enough
  19. Control, cost and convenience determine how Australians use the technology in their homes
  20. It's the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani
  21. All female mammals have a clitoris – we're starting to work out what that means for their sex lives
  22. Labor's cancer package would cut the cost of care, but beware of unintended side effects
  23. How has education policy changed under the Coalition government?
  24. Tourists behaving badly are a threat to global tourism, and the industry is partly to blame
  25. how did the months get their names?
  26. The swamp foxtail's origin is hidden in its DNA
  27. Casual academics aren't going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn't affected?
  28. your guide to the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist
  29. Mercury pollution from decades past may have been re-released by Tasmania's bushfires
  30. should we nap during the day?
  31. $500m for station car parks? Other transport solutions could do much more for the money
  32. What the data say about discrimination and tolerance in New Zealand
  33. Chinese investment in Australia is down 36%. It's time for a more balanced debate about the national interest
  34. Edible seaweed can be used to grow blood vessels in the body
  35. What will the Turnbull-Morrison government be remembered for?
  36. Coalition narrows gap to trail 48-52% in post-budget Newspoll
  37. Cutting cancer costs is a worthy policy, but we need to try to prevent it too
  38. Those future tax cut promises... they're nowhere near as big as you'd think
  39. Artificial intelligence in Australia needs to get ethical, so we have a plan
  40. Trapdoor spider species that stay local put themselves at risk
  41. Michelle Grattan on the government's benign budget and Shorten's mic drop
  42. New Zealand gun owners invoke NRA-style tropes in response to fast-tracked law change
  43. It's time for Indigenous nationhood to replace a failing colonial authority
  44. why do tigers have whiskers?
  45. 'enhancing' forensic audio can mislead juries in criminal trials
  46. The 'painless woman' helps us see how anxiety and fear fit in the big picture of pain
  47. Why it might be time for New Zealand to reconsider the legal definition of murder
  48. Bill Shorten's tactical play foils budget's tax pitch
  49. What just happened to our tax? Here's an explanation you'll understand
  50. death on the Darling, colonialism’s final encounter with the Barkandji

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