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Health Check: can stress during pregnancy harm my baby?

  • Written by: Monique Robinson, Early Career Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia
imageWomen are vigilant about avoiding alcohol and smoking during pregnancy, but what about stress?Camila Cordeiro/Unsplash

Most pregnant women are aware of the advice to quit smoking, avoid alcohol, and wholeheartedly fear soft cheese in all its forms, but we hear very little official public health advice about stress during pregnancy.

Yet we know that...

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Politics podcast: Mathias Cormann on the same-sex marriage postal survey

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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When the government didn’t get the numbers to pass legislation for a same-sex marriage plebiscite it put the wheels in motion for its second-best plan: a postal survey.

Since announcing that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) would be responsible for carrying out the postal survey, Acting Special Minister of...

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Coalition position worsens in Newspoll to trail 46-54%

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The government has lost further ground in Newspoll, now trailing Labor 46-54% in two-party terms, in the wake of the crisis over citizenship.

This is the 18th consecutive Newspoll in which the government has been behind. The two-party fall comes after several polls in which the Coalition trailed 47-53%.

The early part of the poll fortnight was...

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Dry winter primes Sydney Basin for early start of bushfire season

  • Written by: Matthias Boer, Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University

It might feel like the depths of winter, but Australian fire services are preparing for an early start to the bushfire season. Sydney has been covered with smoke from hazard reduction burns, and the New South Wales Rural Fire Service has forecast a “horrific” season.

Predicting the severity of a bushfire season isn’t easy, and...

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  1. Where to take refuge in your home during a bushfire
  2. Being exploited and breaching your visa: the limited choices of the food delivery worker
  3. Curious Kids: Why do we count to 10?
  4. As Australia becomes less religious, our parliament becomes more so
  5. Australia's screen future is online: time to support our new content creators
  6. This is why apartment living is different for the poor
  7. Women who sexually abuse children are just as harmful to their victims as male abusers
  8. Religious classes in schools must adapt to fit a changing Australia
  9. No legal doubt over decisions Joyce and Nash take: Brandis
  10. National poll vs sample survey: how to know what we really think on marriage equality
  11. Tech companies can distinguish between free speech and hate speech if they want to
  12. Striking in al-Ándalus: why Islamic State attacked Spain
  13. How we inherit masculine and feminine behaviours: a new idea about environment and genes
  14. From the edge of the Solar System, Voyager probes are still talking to Australia after 40 years
  15. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's dual citizenship issues
  16. This may not be the 'biggest flu season on record', but it is a big one – here are some possible reasons
  17. If High Court decides against ministers with dual citizenship, could their decisions in office be challenged?
  18. Controlled experiments won't tell us which Indigenous health programs are working
  19. Barcelona attack: a long war against Islamic terrorism is our reality
  20. For sniffing out crime and missing persons, science backs blood-detection dogs
  21. Finding balance on marriage equality debate a particular challenge for the media
  22. Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero
  23. Lessons from Adelaide in how a smart city can work to benefit everyone
  24. Walking the fine line between healthy weight advice and fat shaming
  25. Vital Signs: RBA rates decision stuck between jobs growth and household debt
  26. Noise from offshore oil and gas surveys can affect whales up to 3km away
  27. Grattan on Friday: Malcolm Turnbull's government has finally defied fiction
  28. New shock rocks government: Nationals' deputy Fiona Nash a dual British citizen
  29. Unrepentant Hanson hopes burqa stunt will create debate
  30. Father and son: Saturn and Jupiter in the northern sky
  31. Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on Airbnb and its impact on cities
  32. What businesses can do to stamp out slavery in their supply chains
  33. We all need to forget, even robots
  34. From Charlottesville to Nazi Germany, sometimes monuments have to fall
  35. Of renewables, Robocops and risky business
  36. High Court challenge to offshore immigration detention power fails
  37. Five commonly over-diagnosed conditions and what we can do about them
  38. Mythbusting Ancient Rome -- did all roads actually lead there?
  39. Grooming the globe: denying fairness, complexity and humanity
  40. Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity
  41. When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect
  42. Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see
  43. Australia emits mercury at double the global average
  44. When artists get involved in research, science benefits
  45. A new approach to culture
  46. Health Check: do joint and muscle aches get worse in the cold?
  47. The Buy Queensland strategy breaks international trade deals
  48. Is The Bachelor anti-feminist, or is conventional heterosexual romance the real problem?
  49. Melbourne shows up Sydney in funding the most disadvantaged suburbs
  50. Bored reading science? Let's change how scientists write

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