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How healthy soils make for a healthy life

  • Written by Ee Ling Ng, Research fellow, University of Melbourne
imageSoils play an important role in the nutritional value of our food.

The next time you bite into an apple, spare a thought for the soils that helped to produce it. Soils play a vital role, not just in an apple’s growth, but in our own health too.

The formation of soil, pedogenesis, is a very slow process. Creating one millimetre of soil...

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After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain

  • Written by Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne

The federal government quietly announced last Saturday that it would effectively axe the Catalyst fund set up by former arts minister, George Brandis, with money drawn from the Australia Council’s budget.

The fund had been widely condemned by the arts industry. Brandis established the fund, initially called the National Program for...

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To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with

  • Written by Gill Hubbard, Reader in Cancer Care, University of Stirling
imageWe often hide behind a mask of wellness when we're really sick. Maybe it's time to be more open about our health.from www.shutterstock.com

Why are we so shocked when we, or someone we know, becomes ill? Why are many people scared of illness and unable to support their loved ones when illness strikes? And why do so many people still think “it...

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Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses

  • Written by Raymond Trau, Lecturer, RMIT University

Homophobia is costly to workers and the businesses that employ them, research shows. Unfortunately, it’s still prevalent in Australia and the latest lobbying from 34 business leaders for marriage equality emphasises the need for it to be addressed both within and outside the workplace.

It’s little wonder some of Australia’s...

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  1. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  2. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance
  3. How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action
  4. Apocalypse now: wifi and radiation sickness sweeping the world
  5. We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
  6. How we edit science part 2: significance testing, p-hacking and peer review
  7. After the robo-debt debacle, here's how Centrelink can win back Australians' trust
  8. Infographic: the truth behind Centrelink's waiting times
  9. Higher child support doesn't lead to welfare dependency for single mums
  10. When politicians listen to scientists, we all benefit
  11. Government needs to front up billions, not millions, to save Australia's threatened species
  12. What we may think are the healthiest bread and wrap options actually have the most salt
  13. Grammarians rejoice in the <br>$10 million comma</br>
  14. Secrecy on land titles registry sale helps keep bidders' tax haven links quiet
  15. How do you remember a rock god? The complicated legacy of Chuck Berry
  16. Contested spaces: the 'long-grassers', living private lives in public places
  17. Health Check: is sleepwalking problematic and can it be 'cured'?
  18. Government cracks down on secret company payments to unions
  19. When things go wrong in an automated world, would we still know what to do?
  20. With battery storage to the rescue, the Kodak moment for renewables has finally arrived
  21. Boards must do more to stamp out wrongdoing that damages trust in charities
  22. Planet or dwarf planet: all worlds are worth investigating
  23. Gas crisis? Energy crisis? The real problem is lack of long-term planning
  24. Women are dropping out of economics, which means men are running our economy
  25. Value capture: a good idea to fund infrastructure but not easy in practice
  26. How obesity causes cancer, and may make screening and treatment harder
  27. Why guaranteed Indigenous seats in parliament could ease inequality
  28. From pig hunting to quilting – why magazines still matter
  29. Free speech? It depends who you are, in Peter Dutton's view
  30. Why should we obey the law?
  31. How we edit science part 1: the scientific method
  32. Unpicking the labyrinth that is India's Adani
  33. Embracing the bots: how direct to consumer advertising is about to change forever
  34. Contested spaces: conflict behind the sand dunes takes a new turn
  35. South Australia's energy plan deals a blow to state-federal relations
  36. The power of 'our song', the musical glue that binds friends and lovers across the ages
  37. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the energy crisis
  38. Book review: Love, loss and madness in The Green Bell
  39. Economics isn't ideology-free and it's misleading to suggest it is
  40. Wide-ranging ban on gambling ads during sport broadcasts is needed to tackle problem gambling
  41. Stephen FitzGerald: Managing Australian foreign policy in a Chinese world
  42. Snowy Hydro gets a boost, but 'seawater hydro' could help South Australia
  43. Friday essay: from grotesques to frumps - a field guide to spinsters in English fiction
  44. Psychology turns to online crowdsourcing to study the mind, but it's not without its pitfalls
  45. There's no need to lock older people into nursing homes 'for their own safety'
  46. Why consumers fall for 'sales', but companies may be using them too much
  47. The Yahoo hack: Are the Russians now go-to bad guys, real spies, or just criminals?
  48. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull turns to water as power debate fires up
  49. Punishing medical errors won't improve hospital safety or quality
  50. Russia expands in the Middle East as America's 'honest broker' role fades

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