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Public hospital blame game – here's how we got into this funding mess

  • Written by: Jane Hall, Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
Public hospital blame game – here's how we got into this funding messThe five yearly negotiations have long generated controversy and angst.Jair Lázaro

Discussions between state, territory and Commonwealth leaders at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra today is likely to be heated, to say the least. Hospital funding is on the agenda, and we’ve already heard the states are...

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Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy tales

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling
Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy talesFairy tales are extremely moral in their demarcation between good and evil, right and wrong. Marcella Cheng/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA

Originally for adults, many fairy tales can be brutal, violent, sexual and laden with taboo. When the earliest recorded versions were made by collectors such as the Brothers Grimm, the adult content was...

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Vital Signs: future expectations causing sharemarket gyrations and interest rate doubts

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: hourly earnings and consumer in the United States; and job ads, cost of living and balance of trade in...

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Proposed new regulations for 3D printed medical devices must go further

  • Written by: Richard Matthews, PhD Candidate, University of Adelaide
Proposed new regulations for 3D printed medical devices must go furtherAdvances in technology mean it's now possible to 3D print everything from prosthetic limbs to skin, bones and organs.armymedicine/flickr, CC BY

3D printing has rapidly increased in quality and popularity over the past decade. In the medical sector, it has evolved from the creation of relatively simple prosthetics, to a silicon prototype of a...

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  2. This is how WestConnex can deliver Sydney a better city centre
  3. Friday essay: ‘It’s not over in the homes’ – impotence, domestic violence and former POWs
  4. Grattan on Friday: Is Barnaby's baby a matter of public interest or just of interest to the public?
  5. World-first genetic analysis reveals Aussie white shark numbers
  6. Does a sugar tax cause alcohol sales to spike? The research doesn't give a decisive answer
  7. Whistleblowers still in the firing line from foreign influence and official secrets laws
  8. I've been diagnosed with iron deficiency, now what?
  9. Politics podcast: Mark Dreyfus on changing the government's foreign interference bill
  10. The off-topic Conversation #151
  11. Closing the gap in Indigenous literacy and numeracy? Not remotely – or in cities
  12. CBA's board needs to take ultimate responsibility for the bank's failings
  13. Sense, think, act: the principle that governs everything from rocket landings to interest rates
  14. 2018 Winter Olympics set to begin against the backdrop of warm words and cold politics
  15. Australia's financial regulators need policing
  16. Unions can't just rely on promises of favourable laws to regain lost ground
  17. Labor's 2% cap on private health insurance premium rises won't fix affordability
  18. Listen to abuse survivors and advocates to clear the way to a national redress scheme
  19. How a German migrant planted citizen science in Australia – and why it worked
  20. Australia's jobs and migration policies are not making the best use of qualified migrants
  21. Explainer: the symbolism of The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry cycle
  22. NSW could lead the way in educating students with a disability
  23. Putting the pieces together to create safe public spaces for all
  24. George Brandis warns Liberals against rise of populist right
  25. Government unmoved by Labor MP Susan Lamb's emotional story
  26. Snowboarding and freeskiing got the Olympics by carving their own path
  27. How to use critical thinking to spot false climate claims
  28. Private health insurance rebates don't serve their purpose. Let's talk about scrapping them
  29. The Hendra vaccine has no effect on racehorse performance
  30. Russian Olympic doping saga shows need for a radically different approach
  31. Classroom design should follow evidence, not architectural fads
  32. If democracy is failing, why do so many lay claim to it?
  33. A sports car and a glitter ball are now in space – what does that say about us as humans?
  34. This is why you won't be able to swat that fly
  35. Cape Town is almost out of water. Could Australian cities suffer the same fate?
  36. Driverless cars could create new jobs in a welcome boost to Australia's motor industry
  37. Trump and Turnbull have little cause for satisfaction over progress in Afghanistan
  38. Craig McLachlan, defamation and getting the balance right when sexual harassment goes to court
  39. Curious Kids: why does rain only come from grey clouds?
  40. Lambie's Senate replacement Steve Martin flags that he won't stand aside
  41. How we're developing underground mapping technologies - lessons from the Beaumont case
  42. The smart strategy behind Tourism Australia's 'Croc Dundee' Super Bowl pitch to the Americans
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  44. ASX and Wall Street fall: investors should start to worry when volatility seems low
  45. Turnbull and the Coalition begin the year on a positive polling note – but it's still all about the economy
  46. From #MeToo to #RiceBunny: how social media users are campaigning in China
  47. Will a controversial sports funding strategy give Australia's Winter Olympians the winning edge?
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