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Our study found after-hours GPs actually do reduce visits to emergency rooms

  • Written by: Chris Ifediora, Senior Lecturer (Clinical Skills), Griffith University
imageSupporters of after-hours GP services say they reduce pressure on emergency rooms.from shutterstock.com

A taskforce reviewing more than 5,700 items covered by the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) released a preliminary report this week on urgent after-hours GP services funded through the MBS.

The government-appointed taskforce reviewed these...

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The Mummy struggles with the chemistry but gets the physics right with a crash

  • Written by: Michael Milford, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageSofia Boutella plays the new Mummy.Universal Pictures

It’s been 18 years since the cheesy but fun 1999 incarnation of The Mummy, and we were long due for another reboot. To meet that need, along came Tom Cruise accompanied by Russell Crowe and relative newcomers Sofia Boutella and Annabelle Wallis, in The Mummy.

imageTom Cruise and Annabelle...

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Three charts on: Australia's declining taste for beef and growing appetite for chicken

  • Written by: Elizabeth Taylor, Vice Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
imageAustralian consumption of chicken and pork both now far outstrip beef, mutton and lamb.Ben Phillips/Flickr, CC BY

Australians were once world champion beef-eaters but now you’re much more likely to find chicken than steak on Australian dinner tables.

Total meat consumption per capita in Australia has been stable since the 1960s, at around 110...

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Australia has stalled on car efficiency

  • Written by: Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
imageAustralia is falling far behind other countries in improving car pollution. , CSIRO/Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA

Last year, Australia’s new cars were just 1.1% less polluting than the year before, according to a report released this week by the National Transport Commission.

This is the smallest improvement on record, and largely due to our...

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  8. Grattan on Friday: Terrorism's footprint on our politics
  9. What's holding up the blockchain?
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  14. Explainer: what is a 'low emissions target' and how would it work?
  15. Schapelle Corby fails to draw a Twitter audience
  16. New Moroccan fossils suggest humans lived and evolved across Africa 100,000 years earlier than we thought
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  22. When do we stop vaccinating against an infectious disease?
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  25. Bob Dylan's Nobel speech: a splendidly eccentric performance
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  28. Deliberative democracy must rise to the threat of populist rhetoric
  29. As a peace loving warrior, might Wonder Woman unite feminists?
  30. Explainer: what causes alopecia areata and can you treat this type of hair loss?
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  32. Looking at terror attacks 'per capita' should make us rethink beliefs about levels of risk and Muslims
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  38. The dark side of mondegreens: how a simple mishearing can lead to wrongful conviction
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