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Elevated lead levels in Sydney backyards: here's what you can do

  • Written by Marek Rouillon, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University

In our recent study we found that 40% of 203 Sydney homes we sampled contain lead in garden soil above the Australian health guideline of 300 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg).

This presents a hazard because soil lead can adhere to or get absorbed into edible plants. An additional pathway of exposure occurs when contaminated soil dust enters homes...

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When care becomes control - financial abuse cuts across cultures

  • Written by Supriya Singh, Professor, Sociology of Communications, Graduate School of Business & Law, RMIT University
imageThe study examined how women experienced financial abuse across cultures.www.shutterstock.com

Carol, in her late 60s, had a joint bank account with her second husband. She put her A$60,000 in savings into it. Her husband didn’t have a regular wage but controlled the money, Carol also had a credit card but her husband monitored its use.

“I...

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What's the point of sex? It's good for your physical, social and mental health

  • Written by Fiona Kate Barlow, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
imageCommitting to a safe and active sex life could boost your health in 2017. pedrosimoes7/flickr , CC BY-NC

The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But there’s more to sex than just the meeting of two sets of genes. The ‘What’s the point of...

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Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?

  • Written by Joel Hodge, Senior Lecturer in Theology, Australian Catholic University
imageAlison Whyte in Sydney Theatre Company's The Testament of Mary.Supplied

Colm Tóibín’s play and Booker-nominated novella The Testament of Mary aims to “demythologise” the story of Mary (the mother of Jesus). The play has toured globally and is now having its Australian premiere at the Sydney Theatre Company with...

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  1. Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?
  2. A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy
  3. What we can all learn from the VW emissions saga
  4. Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city
  5. ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks
  6. How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms
  7. Health Check: is snoring anything to worry about?
  8. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
  9. Heed Hawke's call – Australian federalism is an idea whose time has ended
  10. The mosquito-borne Zika virus can also be transmitted by sexual activity
  11. What's the point of sex? It's communication at a biological level
  12. Game, set and match-fix: what more can be done to stop corruption in tennis?
  13. What can the medieval King Roger teach us about tolerance?
  14. Thinking about a sustainable retrofit? Here are three things to consider
  15. Australia must make the environment integral to economic decision-making
  16. Why did US President Obama seek to punish female Russian hacker Alisa Shevchenko?
  17. WA ReachTEL: 52-48 to Labor, but One Nation at 10.8%
  18. Ley goes, and Turnbull's reforms pave way for fewer expenses scandals
  19. Centrelink data-matching problems show the need for a government blockchain
  20. Should over 50’s avoid that afternoon coffee? Maybe.
  21. Trump, Putin and the new international order
  22. Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
  23. 9 ways 'won’t-power' is better than 'willpower' for resisting temptation and helping you eat better
  24. What is heart failure? It's not as common a cause of death as reports would have us believe
  25. How the insights of the Large Hadron Collider are being made open to everyone
  26. Is FIFA expanding the football World Cup for the good of the game?
  27. Are our busy doctors and nurses losing empathy for patients?
  28. For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there’s no such thing as bad publicity
  29. Myuran Sukumaran's voice in his first exhibition is raw, premature and unsettling
  30. Hot dogs and cool cats: keeping pets cool without blowing your energy bill
  31. We need to find new ways to measure the Australian labour force
  32. Five things to consider when designing a policy to measure research impact
  33. How to manage Russia becomes one of the most pressing questions in US, and world, affairs
  34. Shorter or longer tennis matches: what's the right balance?
  35. Putin, the political technologist
  36. Explainer: why has Rod Culleton been disqualified from the Senate?
  37. Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
  38. 'I'm not a mind reader': understanding your partner's thoughts can be both good and bad
  39. Expenses reform is easy and essential – the only thing lacking is politicians' resolve to do it
  40. Beyond La La Land: the top ten toe-tapping film musicals
  41. Life in a post-flying Australia, and why it might actually be ok
  42. There is no silver bullet to stop fraudsters
  43. Trump and Showering Golden
  44. Note to Centrelink: Australian workers' lives have changed
  45. Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts
  46. Bright Lights – a TV farewell to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
  47. School dress 'debate' is a nonsense: just have a range of options, and let students choose
  48. Children learn empathy growing up, but can we train adults to have more of it?
  49. James Hird's suspected drug overdose: invasive reporting breaches a right to privacy
  50. Can poetry stop a highway? Wielding words in the battle over Roe 8

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