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Essential reading to get your head around Australia's aged care crisis

  • Written by: Sasha Petrova, Deputy Editor, Health + Medicine
Essential reading to get your head around Australia's aged care crisisAlmost half of residents in Australia's residential aged care facilities suffer from depression.from shutterstock.com

Tonight ABC’s Four Corners will air the first of a two-part investigation into the often shocking treatment of the elderly in aged care homes around Australia.

The timing coincides with Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s...

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How do you know that we aren't in virtual reality right now?

  • Written by: Tim Dean, Honorary Associate in Philosophy, University of Sydney
How do you know that we aren't in virtual reality right now?Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy? Nan Palmero/Flickr, CC BY-SA

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 – serious, weird or wacky! You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production...

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After a long struggle, the Uniting Church becomes the first to offer same-sex marriage

  • Written by: Robyn J. Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
After a long struggle, the Uniting Church becomes the first to offer same-sex marriageFor some, this recent decision is a source of celebration and perhaps even symbolic, finally, of full equality in the church for gay and lesbian members.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

From Friday, September 21, the Uniting Church (UCA) will be the first of the three major Australian Christian denominations to endorse same-sex marriage, and...

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Young Australians' prospects still come down to where they grow up

  • Written by: Gerry Redmond, Associate Professor, College of Business, government & Law, Flinders University

Australia as a nation has never been richer. But it is now also more unequal than at any time since the early 1980s. This inequality takes many forms, not least between suburbs and neighbourhoods. And our research suggests the few celebrated examples of famous Australians who emerged from disadvantaged neighbourhoods are the exceptions to the rule...

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  2. Daily low-dose aspirin doesn't reduce heart-attack risk in healthy people
  3. the rise and rise of an unlikely hero
  4. Why yet another visa for farm work makes no sense
  5. How better tests and legal deterrence could clean up the sticky mess left behind by fake honey row
  6. Morrison faces the challenge of community-based candidate in Wentworth
  7. Outrage over schoolgirl refusing to stand for anthem shows rise of aggressive nationalism
  8. It's hard to spread the idiot fruit
  9. Evictions versus holdouts. How to painlessly dissolve a strata title
  10. Michelle Grattan on the Liberal pick for Wentworth and Morrison's bad week
  11. New law won't safeguard medicine supply – it'll only ensure we know there's a shortage
  12. Vital for life, heat and power – what you never knew about salt water
  13. How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect them
  14. Wentworth preselectors' rebuff to Morrison caps week of mayhem
  15. Once upon a time ... 'sleeping beauties' and the importance of storytelling in science
  16. who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo
  17. Vital signs. When cutting interest rates might not help
  18. Gender diversity is more accepted in society, but using the pronoun 'they' still divides
  19. We mapped cancer rates across Australia – search for your postcode here
  20. We need more flexible housing for 21st-century lives
  21. Year 11 and 12 students in NSW will no longer learn about women's contributions to physics
  22. How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle? Typically just 14 pieces
  23. Cathy McGowan and Rebekha Sharkie on the role of community candidates
  24. you're gonna need a bigger rope to tie down this alien hunter
  25. As Witness K trial opens, questions over how much of Timor-Leste spying case to keep secret from public
  26. knee arthroscopy is one of the most common but least effective surgeries
  27. Independent isn't necessarily better. Why appointing independent directors can achieve little
  28. Sharing your meter data might help cut your power bill, but it needs secure regulation
  29. the poetry of Rosemary Dobson
  30. World politics explainer: The Holocaust
  31. New body for complaints against police in Victoria is a good move, with some caveats
  32. double standards a double fault
  33. where do clouds come from and why do they have different shapes?
  34. The paradox of choice. Why made-to-order might not solve the fashion industry's problems
  35. In defence of conspiracy theories (and why the term is a misnomer)
  36. Yes, AI may take some jobs – but it could also mean more men doing care work
  37. Where Australian states are up to in decriminalising abortion
  38. Why anti-American sentiment is weaker under Trump than it was under George W. Bush
  39. what is energy security, and how has it changed?
  40. Why driverless vehicles should not be given unchecked access to our cities
  41. how Australia scrambles to regulate Chinese technology
  42. Communist aristocrat, Soviet spy and activist filmmaker
  43. Why education about gender and sexuality does belong in the classroom
  44. Wentworth goes to the polls on October 20
  45. Three billion per year. How the financial system rips us off
  46. Artemisia Gentileschi, a Baroque heroine for the #MeToo era
  47. Why it's so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robots
  48. Happiness hinges on personality, so initiatives to improve well-being need to be tailor-made
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