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FactCheck: Is suicide one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia?

  • Written by: David Ellwood, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Griffith University
imageSuicide is uncommon during pregnancy -- it occurs more frequently when a pregnancy is over.Mikel Garcia Idiakez/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

The Committee notes that … suicide has become one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia. – The Obstetrics Clinical Committee, report to the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review, August 2016.

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Politics podcast: Simon Birmingham on the new VET student loan scheme

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

A new vocational education and training student loan scheme will aim at putting a stop to rorting by dodgy private colleges. Education Minister Simon Birmingham tells Michelle Grattan the new scheme is being built from the ground up.

“First and foremost, [there will be] strong barriers to entry for the types of vocational education providers...

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Lockerbie experience is no model for the effective prosecution of MH17 bombers

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Newcastle
imageDemands for justice for the victims of Flight MH17, including war crimes prosecutions for those responsible, persist.AAP/Lloyd Jones

An investigative team, comprising authorities from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine, recently concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a BUK missile on July 17, 2014. The...

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Banks make millions in delaying interest rate cuts

  • Written by: Abbas Valadkhani, Professor of Economics, Swinburne University of Technology

When Australia’s central bank moves interest rates as part of its monetary policy, it’s not just politicians who stand to lose if banks don’t follow suit.

Retail lending markets form an integral part of the monetary policy transmission mechanism. If interest rate rises are passed on at a different rate to cuts it can adversely...

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  1. Business Briefing: Trusting business to take care of your data
  2. Trimming the excess: how cutting down on junk food could help save the environment
  3. Lessons from South Australia's blackout: we need to make infrastructure more resilient to climate change
  4. Philanthropic foundations cost taxpayers – and so should be made accountable
  5. US election: what impact do celebrity endorsements really have?
  6. Mellow yellow? The mood and cognitive effects of curcumin from turmeric
  7. Opening doors and minds: the Open House phenomenon
  8. New VET loan scheme to exclude shonky providers
  9. Bank inquiry won't take royal commission off the political agenda
  10. AFL and NRL grand final TV ratings show codes still rely on their traditional heartlands
  11. Big four bank chiefs face parliamentary committee: experts react
  12. The uncanny and Changwon Sculpture Biennale
  13. Has auto-translation software finally stopped being so useless?
  14. South Australian blackout: renewables aren't a threat to energy security, they're the future
  15. Inconsistency bedevils Australia's prosecution of war criminals
  16. What's the link between hay fever and asthma, and how are they treated?
  17. Australian corporate social responsibility reports are little better than window dressing
  18. Victoria needs a big-picture transport plan that isn't about winners v losers
  19. Simpler account switching would help keep our banks honest
  20. Governments and central banks should stop trying to stimulate the economy
  21. Women should be told about their breast density when they have a mammogram
  22. Marine parks and fishery management: what's the best way to protect fish?
  23. Why ‘green cities’ need to become a deeply lived experience
  24. Is protectionism a 'siren song' to the poor or to the wealthy?
  25. Why health implants should have open source code
  26. From Shakespeare in Hindi to tackling human trafficking: the best of OzAsia festival
  27. 'No jab, no pay' disadvantages migrant children
  28. Consumers don't understand smartphone contracts
  29. How to Think About 1.5 Degrees
  30. Health Check: what should breastfeeding women eat?
  31. The Conversation working with The ABC
  32. R D tax incentives need to be simple and underpin investor confidence
  33. Shrinking Mercury is all it's cracked up to be
  34. Yes, some Australian private schools are overfunded – here's why
  35. Art for innovation's sake? Lessons from our Canadian cousin
  36. Volatility, thy name is Trump
  37. 'We must keep the lights on': how a cyclone was used to attack renewables
  38. Wyatt Roy's trip to Iraq was nothing short of irresponsible
  39. How can Australia build on a century of struggle over Indigenous citizenship?
  40. 20 years on, what impact has the Nobel Prize for medicine had on our immune systems?
  41. The Nobel Prizes’ controversial push for popularity
  42. The story behind Australia's marine reserves, and how we should change them
  43. The superannuation myth: why it's a mistake to increase contributions to 12% of earnings
  44. Religion and the US election: does faith matter anymore?
  45. Cities in the sky: how do we decide where this urban journey is taking us?
  46. It's never been more important to keep an eye on space weather
  47. Trump, the media, and the populist politics of the pogrom
  48. The human clitoris is an object of beauty, pleasure and intrigue
  49. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the South Australia blackout
  50. SA blackout politics overshadow the real issues on power generation

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