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Patients paying more for health care as government tightens belt

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageAs the Australian government tightens its belt, consumers end up spending more of their own money on health.Nikki Short/AAP Image/AAP

Australians are picking up some of the slack of government belt-tightening by paying more for health, with experts concerned this could reduce the equity in Australia’s health system, a new report has revealed.

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Turnbull's honeymoon propels Coalition into narrow poll lead

  • Written by: The Conversation

The table below shows the results of the five polls that have been conducted since Malcolm Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott as Australia’s PM. Three of these polls have Coalition leads and the other two are tied. For ReachTEL, the tie may be a result of sampling the day after the spill, while Essential simply does not react as much as it...

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Sustainable Development Goals: a win-win for Australia

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageAustralians are major offenders when it comes to wasting food. Food waste image from www.shutterstock.com

On September 25 world leaders will meet in New York to formalise the new Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals will guide efforts to reduce poverty and increase well-being, without destroying the Earth. The Conversation is looking at how...

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  4. Report makes the case for a national redress scheme for sex abuse survivors
  5. What would a 21st-century education look like under PM Turnbull?
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  12. Diesel fumes and your health: VW cover-up shows we need to test local cars
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  14. Technology will play a starring role in Australia's future story
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  16. No place like home when playing in the Rugby World Cup
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  19. Can the 'real Malcolm' survive being PM?
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  21. Turnbull must break with past attempts to keep the future at bay
  22. Pyne leaves education having failed to sell a vision for the past
  23. Publish or perish culture encourages scientists to cut corners
  24. How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable
  25. Redefining the (able) body: disabled performers make their presence felt at the Fringe
  26. Sustained economic growth: United Nations mistake the poison for the cure
  27. High-tech fertilisers and innovation have to come to the Great Barrier Reef's rescue
  28. Will Senate voting reform end up in the too hard basket?
  29. Politics podcast: Kim Carr on Labor's new higher education policy
  30. COP 21 : pourquoi Paris ne sera pas un autre Copenhague
  31. Pope works to reconcile Catholic teaching, population pressures and sustainable development
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  33. Using family trusts to minimise tax is on the nose: so why are policy makers silent?
  34. The late Gordon Darling and the gentle art of philanthropy
  35. The war on online advertising is intensifying, and the ads are losing
  36. The wash-up from the Canning byelection
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  38. All eyes on the Aussie dollar as Australia stalks recession
  39. What is this thing called reform?
  40. Senate Inquiry into arts funding: South Australia takes a bow
  41. Aged-care funding creates dependency and lowers well-being of residents
  42. Explainer: the world's new sustainable development goals
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  44. Turnbull takes Coalition into lead and trounces Shorten in Newspoll
  45. Senate crossbencher's advice to new PM: come and walk the red carpet, Malcolm
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