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why Australia’s hospitals and health care is failing

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
why Australia’s hospitals and health care is failingHealth is the largest single component of state government expenditure.Shutterstock/hxdbzxy

This week we’re exploring nine different policy areas across Australia’s states, as detailed in Grattan Institute’s State Orange Book 2018. Read the other articles in the series here.


Australia has a good health system by international...

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The search for the source of a mysterious fast radio burst comes relatively close to home

  • Written by: Elizabeth Mahony, Research Scientist, CSIRO
The search for the source of a mysterious fast radio burst comes relatively close to homeAntennas of CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope first picked up the Fast Radio Burst.CSIRO/Alex Cherney, Author provided

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are just that – enormous blasts of radio waves from space that only last for a fraction of a second. This makes pinpointing their source a huge challenge.

Our team...

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Australian cricket's wake-up call on a culture that has cost it dearly

  • Written by: Steve Georgakis, Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy and Sports Studies, University of Sydney
Australian cricket's wake-up call on a culture that has cost it dearlyAn independent report has found that Australian cricket's culture of win-at-all-costs has come at a high price.AAP/Dean Lewins

On the face of it, there is much to celebrate about Australian cricket right now. The sport has money to burn thanks to recent large pay-TV deals, the Big Bash has strong TV ratings; the women’s cricket team is one of...

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How to pitch to The Conversation

  • Written by: Alexandra Hansen, Chief of Staff, The Conversation
How to pitch to The ConversationThe Conversation receives lots of pitches. Here's how to make yours successful.

What we’re looking for

The Conversation is a source of independent news and analysis written by experts and read by a general audience. Our aim is to get good, evidence-based information to the public, for free.

The types of articles we’re looking for are ones...

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  1. Five questions (and answers) about casual employment
  2. The Conversation wins a UN Day Media Award
  3. how political donations could be reformed to reduce potential influence
  4. Indian diaspora in New Zealand and Australia
  5. If we're to have another inquiry into mental health, it should look at why the others have been ignored
  6. Why Australia should be wary of the Proud Boys and their violent, alt-right views on race
  7. Expecting autistic people to 'fit in' is cruel and unproductive; value us for our strengths
  8. How flashing lights and catchy tunes make gamblers take more risks
  9. Infrastructure splurge ignores smarter ways to keep growing cities moving
  10. It's clear why coal struggles for finance – and the government can't change that
  11. how to tell the difference between hay fever and the common cold
  12. Some questions for Simon Birmingham, from two researchers whose ARC grant he quashed
  13. Uncomfortable comparisons. Why Rod Sims broke the ACCC record
  14. Dancing Grandmothers offers a moment of communion
  15. Morrison's ratings slump in Newspoll; Wentworth's huge difference in on-the-day and early voting
  16. diverting population growth to the regions
  17. Is there anything hotter than the Sun?
  18. Shorten proposes investment bank to help Pacific nations' development
  19. State governments are vital for Australian democracy: here's why
  20. Grattan Institute Orange Book 2018. State governments matter, vote wisely
  21. Ensuring children get enough physical activity while being safe is a delicate balancing act
  22. Why car sharing had a slow start in Australia
  23. How a near-perfect rectangular iceberg formed
  24. Crowd-mapping gender equality – a powerful tool for shaping a better city launches in Melbourne
  25. The ancient origins of werewolves
  26. Simon Birmingham's intervention in research funding is not unprecedented, but dangerous
  27. The rise of sponges in Anthropocene reef ecosystems
  28. Spinifex grass would like us to stop putting out bushfires, please
  29. Michelle Grattan on the Wentworth washup
  30. Three charts on: how and what Australians eat (hint: it's not good)
  31. Heart attacks more frequent in colder weather
  32. Imagining your own SeaChange – how media inspire our great escapes
  33. Inside the world of million-dollar beauty pageants – for camels
  34. More than a century on, the battle fought by Australia's suffragists is yet to be won
  35. Being in nature is good for learning, here's how to get kids off screens and outside
  36. can you cut your cancer risk by eating organic?
  37. Government to set up new multi-billion Future Drought Fund
  38. Australia's 5% jobless rate is not full employment; pushing up interest rates would be wrong
  39. Please, not another super scheme, Mr Keating. It's what the pension is for
  40. Ancient fish evolved in shallow seas – the very places humans threaten today
  41. a fresh perspective on Leonard Cohen and the island that inspired him
  42. Morrison fights political fire with leaky buckets
  43. Want to improve care in nursing homes? Mandate minimum staffing levels
  44. We have so many ways to pursue a healthy climate – it's insane to wait any longer
  45. Can your actions really save the planet? 'Planetary accounting' has the answer
  46. Why we need more than just data to create ethical driverless cars
  47. why removing sex from birth certificates matters to gender diverse people
  48. Working to reclaim and rebuild our food systems from the ground up
  49. add bars to the window dressing and make them legally binding
  50. Pianist Sir András Schiff returns to Sydney for a sublime recital

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