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things to consider before going that extra mile for your smile

  • Written by: Madhan Balasubramanian, NHMRC Sidney Sax Research Fellow, University of Sydney
things to consider before going that extra mile for your smileMany Australians travel overseas for dental surgery.From shutterstock.com

Australians spend up to A$300 million each year on health-care costs abroad. As part of this phenomenon, each year around 15,000 of us are travelling overseas for cosmetic surgery tourism, including dental procedures.

We don’t have firm numbers on exactly how much...

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Why DNA tests for Indigenous heritage mean different things in Australia and the US

  • Written by: Elizabeth Watt, Research Fellow, Deakin University

Last week, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren released a video strongly suggesting two things: she is running for US president in 2020, and she has Native American ancestry.

The second claim was apparently confirmed by the results of a DNA test, which compared genetic data from Warren’s whole genome with that from people of known Central...

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Sabrina the teenage witch is back, with a darker look for our times

  • Written by: Emma Quilty, PhD Candidate, School of Humanities and Social Science. Research Officer at Everymind, University of Newcastle
Sabrina the teenage witch is back, with a darker look for our timesKiernan Shipka as Sabrina in the new Netflix series.Netflix

Netflix is releasing the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina this week. Unlike its predecessor, the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), this version looks like it will be a much darker revamp.

The previous Sabrina series featured the comedic high school adventures resulting from...

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how to spot and suggest a fact check

  • Written by: Lucinda Beaman, FactCheck Editor

Between now and November 24, when Victorians will choose their next government, they’re sure to be hit with more than their fair share of political spin, misinformation, half-truths, and maybe even a few brazen falsehoods.

That’s why we’ll be turning our fact-checking efforts to the issues facing Victorians as they decide the...

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  1. The best way to boost the economy is the best way to improve the lives of disadvantaged students
  2. Former Home Affairs officer calls for all refugees to be brought to Australia
  3. Here's how to design cities where people and nature can both flourish
  4. What causes multiple sclerosis? What we know, don't know and suspect
  5. Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation right
  6. The fair go is a fading dream, but don't write it off
  7. foreign donations and political influence
  8. Boy Erased is a safe and predictable take on the horrors of gay conversion
  9. Why is a magpie's poo black and white?
  10. The internet has done a lot, but so far little for economic growth
  11. the myth that obscures the real problem
  12. New research shines light on sexual violence at Australian music festivals
  13. What is 'quality' in aged care? Here's what studies (and our readers) say
  14. Do chatbots have a role to play in suicide prevention?
  15. Working out what makes a good community where young children can thrive
  16. We must look past short-term drought solutions and improve the land itself
  17. Scott Morrison eases refugee policy while talking tough
  18. Barnaby Joyce on facing the drought and rural women
  19. As children are airlifted from Nauru, a cruel and inhumane policy may finally be ending
  20. 'Soil probiotics' promise bigger, healthier crops, but there's a downside
  21. The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages
  22. A priest says sceptics should stop demanding proof of climate change, as that's not how science works
  23. Requiem or renewal? This is how a tropical city like Darwin can regain its cool
  24. Helping farmers in distress doesn't help them be the best: the drought relief dilemma
  25. How your smartphone or wearable device could forecast illness
  26. Blood type, Pioppi, gluten-free and Mediterranean – which popular diets are fads?
  27. Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriation
  28. Report recommends overhaul of My Health Record, but key changes not supported by Coalition
  29. Chocolate Labradors die earlier than yellow or black, and have more disease
  30. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini's opera, Otello
  31. Why children in institutional care may be worse off now than they were in the 19th century
  32. how much physical activity is enough in older age?
  33. Why do flies vomit on their food?
  34. The five stages of grief don't come in fixed steps – everyone feels differently
  35. The national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse matters. Here's why
  36. is the Coalition spending '$1 billion extra, every year' on aged care?
  37. David Goldblatt's kind, calm photographs of South Africa exist in a morality minefield
  38. Nauru's life on the frontlines
  39. Some cybersecurity apps could be worse for privacy than nothing at all
  40. Turning 'big brother' surveillance into a helping hand to the homeless
  41. Wentworth mightn't be typical but it's the shrill canary in the mine
  42. Phelps consolidates her lead in Wentworth after nail biting day
  43. what is a hung parliament and how would it affect the passage of legislation?
  44. Wentworth byelection called too early for Phelps as Liberals recover in late counting
  45. Australia's native rhododendrons hide in the high mountain forests
  46. Liberals trounced in huge Wentworth swing, bringing a hung parliament
  47. William Forsythe's A Quiet Evening of Dance is surprising, amusing, but precise
  48. what's on the menu for Australia's top predator?
  49. With a billion reasons not to trust super trustees, we need regulators to act in the public interest
  50. One year on for Ardern's coalition government in New Zealand

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