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Hospital staff – don't hide when something goes wrong, listen to patients and ask what they need

  • Written by: Jennifer Moore, Senior Lecturer in Health Law and Torts, UNSW
Hospital staff – don't hide when something goes wrong, listen to patients and ask what they needWhen staff make a mistake, hospitals should follow three simple steps to better care for patients and avoid litigation.Nick Cooper

Litigation may sound like an obvious route for someone who experiences a medical injury. But it’s a lengthy and stressful process, and may not provide relief to patients and their families.

In the past, hospitals u...

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Utopia or nightmare? The answer lies in how we embrace self-driving, electric and shared vehicles

  • Written by: Jake Whitehead, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Utopia or nightmare? The answer lies in how we embrace self-driving, electric and shared vehiclesFour major disruptions of urban transport are set to transform city life, but exactly how remains uncertain. Taras Makarenko/Pexels, CC BY

Emerging transport disruptions could lead to a series of nightmare scenarios and poorer transport systems unless we have sensible and informed public policy to avoid this. Of course, some foresee a utopian...

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Airbnb is blamed for Tasmania's housing affordability problems, but it's actually helping small businesses

  • Written by: Louise Grimmer, Lecturer in Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
Airbnb is blamed for Tasmania's housing affordability problems, but it's actually helping small businessesAirbnb opens up more tourism in rural Tasmania. Shutterstock

Housing affordability is a central issue in the Tasmanian election, but regulating Airbnb is not the answer.

Our ongoing research shows that Airbnb is beneficial for the economy, especially in remote areas. In addition to creating accommodation for tourists and providing income for...

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Friday essay: species sightings

  • Written by: John Kinsella, Professor of Literature and Environment, Curtin University
Friday essay: species sightingsAn echidna in the Western Granites at Jam Tree Gully.John Kinsella

A Rare Sight

The bird seen first time here in forty years sings lightly on the wire, you turn to touch the shoulder of a friend and turning back together find nothing but sky and wire trembling.

Brushtail possum evidenced. We had not seen one here in nine years, and there might not...

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  1. Essays On Air: When did Australia’s human history begin?
  2. Abuse in care versus not in care: we need to tackle potential bias in a national redress scheme
  3. States' dummy-spit over the Murray-Darling Basin Plan clouds the real facts
  4. Charging ahead: how Australia is innovating in battery technology
  5. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull's excoriation of Joyce has changed the game, but how?
  6. Turnbull announces sex ban – and signals Joyce should consider his position
  7. When galaxies collide, size matters if you want to know the fate of our Milky Way
  8. Barnaby Joyce dumped as acting prime minister next week
  9. I've always wondered: do fluorescent lights emit UV, and can it harm me?
  10. Myer once stood for the aspirational middle class but now it's lost sight of who its customers are
  11. Police in schools: helpful or harmful? It depends on the model
  12. Semitransparent solar cells: a window to the future?
  13. What makes a winning halfpipe snowboarder like Scotty James?
  14. Be realistic – demand the impossible: the legacy of 1968
  15. Governments shouldn't be so hasty in declaring victory on wages policy
  16. Without mandatory safety standards, indoor trampoline parks are an accident waiting to happen
  17. Latest twist in the Adani saga reveals shortcomings in environmental approvals
  18. How the new mozzie emoji can create buzz to battle mosquito-borne disease
  19. The dystopian mash-up Altered Carbon is peak Anthropocene TV
  20. Neighbourhood living rooms – we can learn a lot from European town squares
  21. Three ways East Asia can avoid a North Korean refugee 'crisis'
  22. Making sexual consent matter: one-off courses are unlikely to help
  23. Nationals rally behind Joyce's leadership but he is on notice
  24. Liberals gain a Tasmanian long Senate term due to citizenship saga, while polling on Adani is mixed
  25. Explainer: how Winter Olympic athletes cope with the cold
  26. The off-topic Conversation #152
  27. No science minister, and it's unclear where science fits in Australia
  28. Is Perth really running out of water? Well, yes and no
  29. As selling pets online becomes normal, we need to regulate it
  30. This is why health has to be at the heart of the New Urban Agenda
  31. FactCheck Q A: are 'almost 60%' of small business owners paid '$50,000 or less'?
  32. Curious Kids: How does pain medicine work in the body?
  33. Almost every young person in WA detention has a severe brain impairment
  34. Six lessons on how to make affordable housing funding work across Australia
  35. Beyond #MeToo, we need bystander action to prevent sexual violence
  36. In Harley Windsor, Australia has its first Indigenous Winter Olympian – why has it taken so long?
  37. Why social media is in the doghouse for both the pollies and the public
  38. Sex and the sisterhood: how prostitution worked for women in 19th-century Melbourne
  39. A new definition of 'worker' could protect many from exploitation
  40. To really close the gap we need more Indigenous university graduates
  41. 'Epic Duck Challenge' shows drones can outdo people at surveying wildlife
  42. Nationals president urges party: Don't act hastily on Barnaby
  43. The Barnaby Joyce affair highlights Australia's weak regulation of ministerial staffers
  44. As the world looks to put cities on a sustainable path, the Australian government goes missing
  45. The New Payments Platform may mean faster transactions, but it won't be safer
  46. Why the not-for-profit cultural sector needs tailor-made copyright safe harbours
  47. What is your real 'biological age', and what does this mean for your health?
  48. The shocking facts revealed: how sharks and other animals evolved electroreception to find their prey
  49. What makes a winning mogul skier like Matt Graham?
  50. Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income?

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