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Why Australian prisoners are smoking nicotine-infused tea leaves

  • Written by: Cheneal Puljevic, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland
Why Australian prisoners are smoking nicotine-infused tea leavesPrison represents only a temporary disruption in tobacco use for many smokers.TeodorLazarev

Following a ban on tobacco smoking in prisons, some Australian prisoners are creating substitute cigarettes from crushed nicotine lozenges mixed with tea leaves. More than half of the participants we sampled in our recent study have used this product, known...

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Turnbull beats Abbott over NEG, now Frydenberg has to win Victoria

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull has secured a decisive party room victory over Tony Abbott, taking the government’s signature National Energy Guarantee policy another step towards implementation.

Tuesday’s Coalition party room, in a 155 minute debate, gave strong support to the plan. But government sources said four MPs – Tony Abbott, Andrew...

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Substance abuse treatment relies on good brain function, which many users don't have

  • Written by: Julaine Allan, Senior research fellow, Charles Sturt University
Substance abuse treatment relies on good brain function, which many users don't haveA new study has found usual drug treatments won't work for half of patients. from www.shutterstock.com

Methamphetamine and opioid use has become a problem in Australia, and a recent New South Wales parliamentary inquiry recommended urgent action for more substance treatment services, especially residential rehabilitation.

People seek drug and...

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Matteo Garrone's Dogman needs more dogs

  • Written by: Nonie May, Researcher, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Matteo Garrone's Dogman needs more dogsMarcello Fonte stars as Marcello in Dogman. IMDB

Review: Dogman at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Set on an isolated stretch of beach in Italy’s south, Matteo Garrone’s Dogman is a grim and often bloody tale of dog-groomer Marcello (Marcello Fonte) whose foray into petty crime spirals into a violent crusade for retribution.

The...

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  4. The Meg! When the (giant prehistoric) shark bites, the science bites back
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  6. Finance drives everything — including your insecurity at work
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  8. Turnbull pushes the 'reset' button with China, but will it be enough?
  9. Time for the federal government to catch up on political donations reform
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  12. How far have we come since the ’80s vision of the 'non-sexist city'?
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  40. Michelle Grattan on Emma Husar, Barnaby Joyce and the NEG
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