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Three charts on: job prospects for refugees in Australia

  • Written by: Pilar Rioseco, Senior Research Officer, Australian Institute of Family Studies

While refugees will always face major challenges in making the transition to employment, new research indicates their job prospects improve the longer they are in Australia.

But for those who do find work, it’s not always in their chosen profession. Most are in low-skilled occupations.

The Building a New Life in Australia study is...

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Indigenous lives, the 'cult of forgetfulness' and the Australian Dictionary of Biography

  • Written by: Malcolm Allbrook, Managing Editor Australian Dictionary of Biography; Research Fellow, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Australian National University
imageA scene from Bangarra Dance Theatre's 2014 work Patyegarang. An Eora woman, Patyegarang became the main informant for William Dawes, the first European to sympathetically chronicle the language and culture of the Sydney landowners.Jess Bialek/AAP

In 1968 the esteemed Australian anthropologist Bill Stanner coined the term “the great...

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When it comes to redress for child sexual abuse, all victims should be equal

  • Written by: Kate Seear, Academic Director of Springvale Monash Legal Service & Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
imageThe redress scheme cannot be a truly 'just response' if it says some kinds of victims simply don’t count.AAP/Dave Hunt

The federal government last week announced details for its long-awaited redress scheme for victims of institutional child sex abuse. The proposed scheme is a response to recommendations from the ongoing Royal Commission into...

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Looking after a dying loved one at home? Here's what you need to know

  • Written by: Liz Forbat, Professor of Palliative Care, Australian Catholic University
imageCaring can be very rewarding for both the carer and the patient.from shutterstock.com

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


When someone dies at home, everyone in the family is affected. Looking after a relative who is at the end of their life can be...

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  1. Strength training can have unique health benefits, and it doesn't have to happen in a gym
  2. Can virtual nature and poo transplants solve city dwellers' health problems?
  3. Will technology take your job? New analysis says more of us are safer than we thought, but not all
  4. Citizen scientists count nearly 2 million birds and reveal a possible kookaburra decline
  5. Curious Kids: Do worms have tongues?
  6. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slide further. If Parry DQ'd, a Green may be unelected
  7. New citizenship bombshell – Senate President Stephen Parry may be British
  8. New citizenship bombshell – Senate president may be British
  9. World greenhouse gas levels made unprecedented leap in 2016
  10. Stranger Things 2 is darker and weirder, tempered with grief
  11. Do vitamin supplements prevent macular degeneration?
  12. Oral testimony of an Aboriginal massacre now supported by scientific evidence
  13. Australia's hidden history of slavery: the government divides to conquer
  14. Women can be psychopaths too, in ways more subtle but just as dangerous
  15. A Tale of Performance Testing
  16. Three reasons why the decisions of Joyce and Nash may be difficult to challenge
  17. A dragon-led recovery: how a community is reaping the benefits of a spooky Halloween festival
  18. Eight reasons not to be spooked by spiders this Halloween
  19. Business Briefing: questioning the economics of prison
  20. Revisiting the Reformation: how passions sparked a religious revolution 500 years ago
  21. Palliative care for children often involves treating the whole family
  22. Higher education cuts will be felt in the classroom, not the lab
  23. Galapagos species are threatened by the very tourists who flock to see them
  24. What should governments be doing about the rise of Artificial Intelligence?
  25. The Nationals will be battling to protect territory and clout amid Coalition angst
  26. Politics podcast: Kevin Rudd on avoiding Donald Trump
  27. Manus detention centre closure sparks safety fears for refugees
  28. Response from the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (NSW) for a FactCheck Q A on gun buybacks and gun deaths
  29. FactCheck Q A: did government gun buybacks reduce the number of gun deaths in Australia?
  30. An AI professor explains: three concerns about granting citizenship to robot Sophia
  31. Geostorm: the latest climate action blockbuster (that you shouldn't watch)
  32. Health Check: how to soothe yourself to sleep
  33. The ethics of human robots: Sam Jinks brings an artist's perspective to the discourse
  34. Why the government was wrong to reject an Indigenous 'Voice to Parliament'
  35. George Brandis suggests Joyce and Nash didn't really make their ministerial decisions
  36. The Conversation’s 2017 Yearbook - Articles from Australia's top thinkers
  37. What is palliative care? A patient's journey through the system
  38. History says department stores will struggle in the future
  39. Why #metoo is an impoverished form of feminist activism, unlikely to spark social change
  40. How should Australia respond to China's influence in our universities?
  41. Freeing up the huge areas set aside for parking can transform our cities
  42. Buying fresh potatoes and carrots all year round is destroying Australia's soil
  43. Why we're building a climate change game for 12-year-olds
  44. Federal Coalition will be watching the Queensland election anxiously
  45. Palaszczuk must grapple with One Nation, and history, in unpredictable Queensland election
  46. Labor should head left to win 25 November Qld election
  47. Joyce will be safe in New England but the High Court disrupts the government
  48. High Court rules Joyce and Roberts ineligible. SSM plebiscite turnout high
  49. The High Court sticks to the letter of the law on the 'citizenship seven'
  50. Not just available, but also useful: we must keep pushing to improve open access to research

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