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Australia could alleviate its youth justice crisis by importing the right ideas from the US

  • Written by Vincent Schiraldi, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard University
imageRiots have hit youth detention centres in both Australia and the US.AAP

There continues to be a barrage of bad news coming out about juvenile justice systems in Australia and the US. But rather than temporary crackdowns or cosmetic fixes, officials in both countries should enact permanent solutions that replace large and ineffective youth prisons...

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Painkillers like ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart disease and should be restricted

  • Written by Michael Stokes, Cardiologist and PhD Candidate, University of Adelaide
imageOver-the-counter medicines such as Ibuprofen and Voltaren are not without some risk.from shutterstock.com

Medications such as ibuprofen and aspirin, known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs, are widely available over the counter from pharmacies and supermarkets. But health providers have known for some time they can be unsafe for...

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Vital Signs: if it looks like a bubble and sounds like a bubble...

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageThe foundations of Australian house prices could shift at any time.Shutterstock.com

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: Australia’s...

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Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them

  • Written by Erin O'Donnell, Senior Fellow, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environment Law, University of Melbourne
imageThe Whanganui River: now a legal person.Joerg Muller/Ulanwp/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

In the space of a week, the world has gained three notable new legal persons: the Whanganui River in New Zealand, and the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers in India.

In New Zealand, the government passed legislation that recognised the Whanganui River catchment as a legal...

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  1. How we edit science part 5: so what is science?
  2. Grattan on Friday: Barnaby Joyce is telling the government to listen to politics in the pub
  3. The metapolitical long game of the European New Right
  4. Let me entertain you – that's how to get a science message across
  5. Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind
  6. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  7. Research suggests motherhood has changed my brain.
  8. How 19th century fairy tales expressed anxieties about ecological devastation
  9. FactCheck Q A: Has confidence in the media in Australia dropped lower than in the United States?
  10. Despite escalating prescriptions, nerve pain drug offers no relief for sciatica
  11. Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on union misconduct
  12. Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
  13. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  14. NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing
  15. Flying into uncertainty: Western Sydney's 'aerotropolis' poses more questions than answers
  16. Here's how much it would cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family with mental illness
  17. It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality
  18. 'Empowerment' feminism is not working – we need a far more radical approach to gender equality
  19. Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?
  20. Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains
  21. How we edit science part 4: how to talk about risk, and words and images not to use
  22. The US just made flying harder for millions. Tips for dealing with the laptop ban
  23. National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
  24. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  25. Western Australia's welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
  26. Swisse cheese: there are too many holes in complementary medicine regulations already
  27. Film review: A Plastic Ocean shows us a world awash with rubbish
  28. Commercialise my footy: how the AFL's grip on the game shrinks the fans' role
  29. You can't rely on fish oil supplements in pregnancy to make your children smarter
  30. Proposed changes may confuse rather than clarify the meaning of Section 18C
  31. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  32. Trump's credibility takes a hit as FBI finds no evidence of Obama 'wiretap'
  33. How to reduce dependency on drugs like Valium with alternative therapies
  34. How electric cars can help save the grid
  35. How we edit science part 3: impact, curiosity and red flags
  36. In a miserable year, the Adelaide Festival brought us joy
  37. Conservatives have captured Turnbull for culture war crusade
  38. Coalition rebounds in Newspoll following Snowy announcement, but Essential moves to Labor
  39. Section 18C change appears doomed in Senate
  40. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
  41. How healthy soils make for a healthy life
  42. After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain
  43. To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with
  44. Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses
  45. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  46. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance
  47. How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action
  48. Apocalypse now: wifi and radiation sickness sweeping the world
  49. We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
  50. How we edit science part 2: significance testing, p-hacking and peer review

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