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How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol

  • Written by: Katherine Mills, Associate Professor at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcoholWhen adolescents develop stress from trauma and a reliance on drugs or alcohol, both conditions maintain and exacerbate the other.www.shutterstock.com

Some 80% of young people will experience a traumatic event by the time they become an adult. Rates of exposure to trauma peak during adolescence. The stress from traumatic events can result in a loss...

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How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system

  • Written by: Hari Bapuji, Associate professor, University of Melbourne

Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s first visit to India had been going so well. He got to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi (an avid Tweeter with 44.5 million followers), “King of Bollywood” Shah Rukh Khan (36.8 million followers), and the Dalai Lama (18.8 million followers).

Then a single tweet had him being accused of hate mongering....

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New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy

  • Written by: Lawrie Zion, Professor of Journalism, La Trobe University

As many as 3,000 journalism jobs are estimated to have been lost in Australia this decade, the vast majority of which have come from newspaper newsrooms. The consequences for the information needs of the public are profound. But what of the lives and careers of those who left what were typically very stable careers?

Over the past four years, our...

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Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the governmentThe former PM via twitter effectively inserted himself into Question Time - in real time.Dan Himbrechts/AAP

If anyone needs further evidence of the self-defeating weird places the Liberals seem to find themselves in, consider what happened on Tuesday.

Malcolm Turnbull made another intervention in the political debate, this time talking about the...

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  2. free speech and Australian universities
  3. Here's the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)
  4. Operatic goddess Vivica Genaux reigns supreme in a lyrical study of conflicting desires
  5. Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks
  6. NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
  7. Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
  8. what it is and why it needs updating
  9. Australians think immigration should be cut? Well, it depends on how you ask
  10. here's how we avoid feeling guilty
  11. I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
  12. Fracking policies are wildly inconsistent across Australia, from gung-ho development to total bans
  13. Escher x nendo will surprise, delight and challenge
  14. Health impacts and murky decision-making feed public distrust of projects like WestConnex
  15. New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far
  16. Liberals adopt new rule to stop the revolving prime ministership
  17. Craig Kelly triumphs in the 'outwit, outplay, outlast' game of Survivor
  18. Adani's new mini version of its mega mine still faces some big hurdles
  19. what is nitrous oxide (or nangs) and how dangerous is it?
  20. G20 summit bring a truce in US-China trade relations – but it's likely to be temporary
  21. What existed before the Big Bang? Did something have to be there to go boom?
  22. Turnbull versus Morrison in Liberal crisis over Craig Kelly
  23. why more older Australians are living in share houses
  24. Yes, you can adopt a pet as a Christmas gift – so long as you do it correctly
  25. It's not just Newstart. Single parents are $271 per fortnight worse off. Labor needs an overarching welfare review
  26. How a candidate's looks may be swinging your vote (without you even realising it)
  27. why you might get the runs before a first date
  28. the origins of Rocky Horror's Frank-N-furter
  29. At last, Australia has a Modern Slavery Act. Here's what you'll need to know
  30. As they meet in Poland for the next steps, nations are struggling to agree on how the ambitions of the Paris Agreement can be realised
  31. Why battery-powered vehicles stack up better than hydrogen
  32. Yes, Knickers the steer is really, really big. But he's far short of true genetic freak status
  33. Why Tony Abbott's appointment as Indigenous envoy was a diplomatic blunder and policy failure
  34. Warty hammer orchids are sexual deceivers
  35. the science of sleep and the economics of sleeplessness
  36. Michelle Grattan on the government's week from hell
  37. Why Australia's anti-vilification laws matter
  38. Stone tools date early humans in North Africa to 2.4 million years ago
  39. What makes the G20 a force for global good – when its members agree they want it to be
  40. Four in ten Australians think women lie about being victims of sexual assault
  41. Happy birthday, SA's big battery, and many happy returns (of your recyclable parts)
  42. Why daily doses of nature in the city matter for people and the planet
  43. X-rays of rocks show their super-fluid past, and reveal mineral deposits vital for batteries
  44. How believers in 'white genocide' are spreading their hate-filled message in Australia
  45. Young children with autism can thrive in mainstream childcare
  46. garish feminism and the new poetic confessionalism
  47. why now is the right time to clamp down on negative gearing
  48. Crossbench women give Morrison a break after week from hell
  49. scorching heat and heightened bushfire risk
  50. The Indigenous community deserves a voice in the constitution. Will the nation finally listen?

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