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PNG women’s wartime memories cast new light on Kokoda and the Pacific War

  • Written by: Victoria Stead, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
image(From L-R) researcher Margaret Embahe, interviewees Angela Arasepa and Alberta Doiko, and researcher Mavis Tongia.Author supplied

November 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Kokoda Track Campaign. The campaign involved a series of battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the second world war, along the mountainous 96km track...

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Vital Signs: the US economy is outpacing Australia's and we should all ask why

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
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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: housing credit is still propping up lending in Australia, while the...

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We need to make sure the international student boom is sustainable

  • Written by: Julie Hare, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
imageInternational students brought an estimated A$28bn to our economy in 2016-17.Shutterstock

In the first seven months of this year, a staggering 685,000 international students came to Australia to study. About half headed to university to study for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, most often following on from an intensive English-language...

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It's not all about death: conversations with patients in palliative care

  • Written by: Matthew Grant, Research Fellow, Palliative Medicine Physician, Monash University
imagePalliative care patients talk far more of life than of death.Photo by Yaoqi LAI on Unsplash, CC BY

This article is part of our series on demystifying palliative care, where experts explain the process of end-of-life care in Australia.

When I introduce myself to a patient as a palliative care doctor, the question that often follows is: “Am I...

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  13. Social media study points to a close result in the same-sex marriage vote
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  18. Extreme weather leads to public health crises – so health and climate experts must work together
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