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It's time to focus on an endgame for tobacco regulation

  • Written by: Kathryn Barnsley, Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
imageCurrent smoking cessation rates are not sufficient to meet public health goals. soelin/flickr , CC BY-NC-SA

New comprehensive research shows smoking imposes a heavy economic burden throughout the world, gobbling up almost 6% of global health spend and nearly 2% of the world’s GDP. In 2012 this amounted to US$1,436 billion (A$1.9 billion).

This...

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Listen up: a plan to help scientists get their research heard by decision-makers

  • Written by: Mark Quigley, Associate professor, University of Melbourne
imageIt's important to get the research across to and understood by decision-makers.Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com

Many scientists are keen to communicate research they believe can help inform the decisions people make, from public opinion to the policy of our governments.

But the will of scientists to abandon intellectual “ivory towers” does not...

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Dunstan, Christies and me: growing up in the ‘Athens of the South’

  • Written by: Chris Wallace, ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
imageChris Wallace (centre) in 1966 with brother Ron and father Arch.Chris Wallace

This piece is republished with permission from State of Hope, the 55th edition of Griffith Review. Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, presenting an in-depth analysis of the economic, social, environmental and cultural challenges facing...

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  21. China: globalisation’s unlikely champion
  22. Full response from Reverend Tim Costello
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