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It's despair, not depression, that's responsible for Indigenous suicide

  • Written by: Tim Carey, Professor, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University
It's despair, not depression, that's responsible for Indigenous suicideA history of dispossession and transgenerational trauma underlie the day-to-day struggles of Indigenous people.from shutterstock.com

This article was written with Rob McPhee, Deputy CEO of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service and co-chair of the Commonwealth-funded Kimberley Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Working Group.

Last year, 165 Indigenous...

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Can the Big Bash League's backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?

  • Written by: Stephen Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Technology Sydney
Can the Big Bash League's backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?Would you go 'flats' or 'hills'?Shutterstock/Brian A Jackson

Ahead of the start of the 2018-19 Big Bash League season comes news of a radical change that will bring a smile to the faces of backyard cricketers across the country.

In a move familiar to everyone who has ever improvised a set of stumps from a nearby wheelie bin or Esky, the coin toss...

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Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out

  • Written by: Gregg Müller, Lecturer in Natural History, La Trobe University
Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-outJohn Tann/Flickr, CC BY-SA

People don’t like parasites. But there’s a local Aussie tree that’s only a little bit parasitic: the native cherry, or cherry ballart.

It’s what we call hemiparasitic. It can photosynthesise, but gains extra nutrients by attaching its roots to host plants.

The native cherry, Exocarpos cupressiformis,...

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Women don't speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do

  • Written by: Lisa Heap, Adjunct Professor at Institute of Religion, Politics and Society, Australian Catholic University
Women don't speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they doWomen are not reporting workplace harassment even when the behaviour is clearly out of bounds.Shutterstock

There are good reasons why those experiencing sexual harassment – particularly in the workplace – don’t report it at the time it occurs. To do so is likely to result in ostracism, exclusion, career suicide or a direct threat...

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