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do we have to poo every day?

  • Written by: Alexandra Hansen, Health + Medicine Section Editor/Chief of Staff, The Conversation
do we have to poo every day?The Goldilocks rule of pooing says you should go between three times a day and three times a week. from www.shutterstock.com

Some days you might find yourself in and out of the toilet, and some days might go by without a single visit for a Number Two. Should this be a cause for concern?

We asked five experts if we have to poo every day.

Five out of...

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making progress, could do better on inequality and climate

  • Written by: John Thwaites, Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University

Visiting drought-affected farmland in NSW last week, new PM Scott Morrison said he was not interested in considering the role of climate change on the drought because he was “practically interested in the policies that will address what is going on here, right now.”

A narrow focus on the short term is common in politics, but it...

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How unearthing Queensland's 'native police' camps gives us a window onto colonial violence

  • Written by: Lynley Wallis, Senior research fellow, University of Notre Dame Australia
How unearthing Queensland's 'native police' camps gives us a window onto colonial violenceAmmunition found at a mounted police camp at Eyre Creek.Lynley Wallis

In 19th century Queensland, the Native Mounted Police were responsible for “dispersing” (a euphemism for systematic killing) Aboriginal people.

This government-funded paramilitary force operated from 1849 (prior to Queensland’s separation from New South Wales)...

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Our urban environment doesn't only reflect poverty, it amplifies it

  • Written by: Jenny Donovan, Urban Designer and Sessional Lecturer, La Trobe University
Our urban environment doesn't only reflect poverty, it amplifies itIn poorer communities, shared spaces tend to be poorly maintained and utilitarian.from shutterstock.com

The poorer you are, the harder it is to participate in and contribute to society. My experience as a practising urban designer and my research in the area have led me to conclude that the way people’s surroundings are designed reflects and...

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  2. Judith Troeth on the Liberal party's woman problem and asylum seekers
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  4. Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our planet's
  5. Explainer: can you copyright furniture?
  6. How will Indigenous people be compensated for lost native title rights? The High Court will soon decide
  7. with more families in apartments, such attitudes are changing
  8. How to co-parent after divorce
  9. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  10. Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?
  11. Introducing land rent, the ACT's excellent idea for making houses cheaper
  12. Facebook's new video 'Watch' option enters an already crowded market
  13. Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer says Liberals were "subject to threats" in leadership battle
  14. To whack the CFMMEU, Morrison needs first to get the right stick
  15. What is fake honey and why didn’t the official tests pick it up?
  16. When I met James Mirrlees, perhaps the word's greatest tax theorist
  17. Should writers only write what they know? What I learned from my research
  18. how has it come to this in Western democracies?
  19. Political leadership cannot be disentangled from collective psychology
  20. law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us
  21. what are nightshade vegetables and are they bad for you?
  22. Labor to propose new measures to put downward pressure on gas prices
  23. Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini
  24. Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense
  25. Five of the scariest antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past five years
  26. A new project shows combining childcare and aged care has social and economic benefits
  27. The great movie scenes: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
  28. World politics explainer: The Great War (WWI)
  29. Full response from Mathias Cormann for a FactCheck on corporate tax cuts and the US economy
  30. have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages?
  31. Look up Australia, cable cars could ease our traffic woes
  32. Party leaders need to address federal parliament's intolerable workplace culture: Phelps
  33. How Australia can fix the market for plasma and save millions
  34. Australian universities to benefit in Australia-Indonesia free trade deal
  35. Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
  36. Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
  37. What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
  38. Peter Dutton's decisions on the au pairs are legal
  39. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals' leadership spill and the controversy around au pair visas
  40. whose name on the laws of physics for an expanding universe?
  41. Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warnings
  42. What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled down
  43. Australian politics and the psychology of revenge
  44. Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero
  45. what role does ministerial discretion play in the Chelsea Manning visa case?
  46. For Pacific Island nations, rising sea levels are a bigger security concern than rising Chinese influence
  47. Children’s well-being goes hand in hand with their dads’ mental health
  48. why the UN has found Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya
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