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Some diseases, like mine, deteriorate rapidly – disability services need to keep up

  • Written by: Justin Yerbury, Research Fellow in molecular genetics of Motor Neurone Disease, University of Wollongong
Some diseases, like mine, deteriorate rapidly – disability services need to keep upThe NDIS is failing to cater for the changing symptoms and short life expectancy of Australians with rapidly degenerating diseases.

Many people living with the cruel and often rapidly progressing motor neurone disease (MND) are going underfunded during what is likely the most stressful time of their life.

An independent evaluation of the National...

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Why do people grow to certain sizes?

  • Written by: Anna Vinkhuyzen, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Why do people grow to certain sizes?Children grow up to look somewhat like their parents. Flickr/d26b73, CC BY

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter at the bottom. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a...

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How Australian cities are adapting to the Asian Century

  • Written by: Dallas Rogers, Program Director, Master of Urbanism. School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
How Australian cities are adapting to the Asian CenturyMore than 25% of Hurstville residents were born in China, but the Sydney suburb is the exception to the rule.Philip Terry Graham/Flickr, CC BY

This is the first article in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century. These articles draw on research, just published in a special issue of Geographical Research, into how Australian cities are...

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The US midterm elections are being billed as a referendum on Trump, but it's not that simple

  • Written by: Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
The US midterm elections are being billed as a referendum on Trump, but it's not that simpleWes Mountain/The Conversation , CC BY-ND

From afar, the US midterm elections might seem to be all about Donald Trump, and there is some truth to this. The man, as has been the case for some years now, is unavoidable.

More than 700 days after the host of The Apprentice was elected to lead the world’s largest military and economic power, this...

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  1. Dressing up for Melbourne Cup Day, from a racehorse point of view
  2. The great movie scenes: The Matrix and bullet-time
  3. Better data would help crack the drought insurance problem
  4. Bullying and harassment of health workers endangers patient safety
  5. how the pension and super could leave you behind
  6. Stringybark is tough as boots (and gave us the word 'Eucalyptus')
  7. How our red blood cells keep evolving to fight malaria
  8. The Uncomformity festival embraces the power and peculiarity of Tasmania's wild west
  9. Michelle Grattan on Turnbull and Morrison, Shorten's bank idea, and children off Nauru
  10. There's a reason your child wants to read the same book over and over again
  11. How Eurasia's Tianshan mountains set a stage that changed the world
  12. As she prepares to leave politics, Germany's Angela Merkel has left her mark at home and abroad
  13. Anne Summers' new memoir and the bitter struggle over memory narratives of feminism
  14. Australia has eliminated rubella – but that doesn't mean it can't come back
  15. how speculative fiction gained literary respectability
  16. Five projects that are harnessing big data for good
  17. Making developments green doesn’t help with inequality
  18. States and territories have improved integrity measures, but Commonwealth lags far behind
  19. New Caledonia's independence referendum, and how it could impact the region
  20. Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasure
  21. Now Malcolm Turnbull is the sniper at the window
  22. What does the future newsroom look like?
  23. Anne Summers on #MeToo and women in politics
  24. Earth’s wilderness is vanishing, and just a handful of nations can save it
  25. Tick-tock – for healthy mums and kids, dad’s age counts
  26. Abolish stamp duty. The ACT shows the rest of us how to tax property
  27. how using everyday items for play benefits kids
  28. To tackle inequality, we must start in the labour market
  29. What are ‘decodable readers’ and do they work?
  30. Phubbing (phone snubbing) happens more in the bedroom than when socialising with friends
  31. Why are unions so unhappy? An economic explanation of the Change the Rules campaign
  32. After a deadly month for domestic violence, the message doesn't appear to be getting through
  33. Cricket Australia's culture problem is it still doesn't think fans are stakeholders in the game
  34. Ideas of home and ownership in Australia might explain the neglect of renters’ rights
  35. State governments can transform Australia’s energy policy from major fail to reliable success
  36. Your poo is (mostly) alive. Here's what's in it
  37. How new spinal injury treatments help some people to walk again
  38. What teeth can tell about the lives and environments of ancient humans and Neanderthals
  39. Facebook delivers traffic but no money for news media
  40. the protest songs of New Caledonia's independence referendum
  41. While I Was Waiting captures the tragedy of the Syrian civil war in Damascus
  42. what any country can and can't do in Antarctica, in the name of science
  43. Traditional culture may help Indigenous households manage money better
  44. Food fraud, the centuries-old problem that won't go away
  45. I have an exam tomorrow but don't feel prepared – what should I do?
  46. National interest test for research grants could further erode pure research
  47. which human uses are OK for protected areas?
  48. To make housing more affordable this is what state governments need to do
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