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Most people don't benefit from vaccination, but we still need it to prevent infections

  • Written by: Allen Cheng, Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University
Most people don't benefit from vaccination, but we still need it to prevent infectionsEveryone has to be vaccinated for immunisation programs to work. from www.shutterstock.com

A recent article in The Conversation questioned whether we should all get flu vaccinations, given 99 people would have to go through vaccination for one case of flu to be prevented.

But this position ignores the purpose of immunisation programs: whole...

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Is Australia's current drought caused by climate change? It's complicated

  • Written by: Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne

Much of southern Australia is experiencing severe drought after a very dry and warm autumn across the southern half of the continent. Australia is no stranger to drought, but this recent dry spell, and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s visit to drought-stricken parts of the country, has prompted discussion of the role of climate change in...

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Government needs to slow down on changes to spying and foreign interference laws

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Government needs to slow down on changes to spying and foreign interference lawsAttorney-General Christian Porter wants the legislation passed before the "Super Saturday" byelections on July 28.AAP/Lukas Coch

What’s the rush? If you believe Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter, unless two pieces of security legislation are in place in the remaining two weeks of parliament before the winter recess, the country will...

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A bird’s eye view of New Zealand's changing glaciers

  • Written by: Andrew Lorrey, Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Climate Observations and Processes, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
A bird’s eye view of New Zealand's changing glaciersSmall aircraft carry scientists high above the Southern Alps to survey glacier changesHamish McCormick/NIWA, CC BY-SA

Every March, glacier “watchers” take to the skies to photograph snow and ice clinging to high peaks along the length of New Zealand’s Southern Alps.

This flight needs to happen on cloud-free and windless days at...

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  2. Traffic is complex, but modelling using deceptively simple rules can help unravel what's going on
  3. Male dolphins use their individual 'names' to build a complex social network
  4. what might heaven be like?
  5. Bees join an elite group of species that understands the concept of zero as a number
  6. what's the difference between formative and summative assessment in schools?
  7. Why breakups are so hard and how to cope with them
  8. Twenty years on, One Nation is still chaotic, controversial and influential
  9. Criminal charges against banking 'cartels' show Australia is getting tough on competition law
  10. Liberals' Georgina Downer trailing in early Mayo poll
  11. Government and Labor unite to erect the barriers against foreign interference
  12. Passing the brumby bill is a backward step for environmental protection in Australia
  13. Here's what a privacy policy that's easy to understand could look like
  14. Fewer men who have sex with men are using condoms when taking PrEP, and that's OK
  15. Tony Albert’s politically charged kitsch collection confronts our racist past
  16. Australian fished populations drop by a third over ten years, study finds
  17. Manifeste pour les entreprenants… Par-delà les premiers de cordée
  18. Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls
  19. Nature's traffic engineers have come up with many simple but effective solutions
  20. Religious freedoms should include spiritual beliefs too
  21. Haitch or aitch? How a humble letter was held hostage by historical haughtiness
  22. Five things parents can do to improve their children's eating patterns
  23. Many Australian school students feel they 'don't belong' in school: new research
  24. Live sheep exporters get longer 'grace' period for sub-standard ships
  25. 'Western civilisation'? History teaching has moved on, and so should those who champion it
  26. What's driving the sky-high child marriage rates in South Sudan
  27. Kate Spade, the archetypal New Yorker, sold whimsical, affordable luxury to women
  28. Paramedics need more support to deal with daily trauma
  29. three things you should know about volcano risk
  30. the quiet rise of gender-neutral toys
  31. Despite strong words, the US has few options left to reverse China's gains in the South China Sea
  32. Making a global agenda work locally for healthy, sustainable living in tropical Australia
  33. ANU's new entrance criteria won't do much to improve equity
  34. Why do our ears pop?
  35. Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutions
  36. The world’s economic crisis-fighting mechanisms are dangerously inadequate
  37. Greens release annual figures for income tax package
  38. Turnbull wants Joyce to have continuing 'prominent role' in public life
  39. The flu vaccine is being oversold – it's not that effective
  40. why Chinese telecoms participating in Australia's 5G network could be a problem
  41. Labor trailing in Longman and Braddon, and how Senate changes helped the Coalition
  42. No evidence that sexbots reduce harms to women and children
  43. Airbnb regulation needs to distinguish between sharing and plain old commercial letting
  44. The House of Bernada Alba is an extraordinary portrait of imposed silence and female misogyny
  45. Why industrial manslaughter laws are unlikely to save lives in the workplace
  46. five medicinal plants used by Aboriginal Australians
  47. Australian drama in the 1970s
  48. Traditional Aboriginal healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
  49. Combining the facial recognition decisions of humans and computers can prevent costly mistakes
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