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Take control over the end of your life: what you need to know about advance care directives

  • Written by: Nola Ries, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
imageHaving an advance care directive ensures your values and wishes are known, even beyond a time when you can no longer speak for yourself.from shutterstock.com

Many agree on the factors contributing to a good death. People want to be treated with dignity, have relief from pain and, as much as possible, to control what happens to them.

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When process becomes product – repacking science communication

  • Written by: Kate Patterson, Visual Science Communicator, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Lab Research Fellow, 3D Visualisation and Aesthetics Lab UNSW Art and Design, UNSW Australia

I like deadlines. They punctuate my projects.

Deadlines and deliverables force me to package my projects into consumable chunks, into a ‘product’ that is necessary for sharing and showing my work and also for reaching my desired audience.

Most of the time I find myself working towards the end goal of creating something visual for someone...

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NHMRC fluoride paper: relax, Australian citizens, your pineal glands are safe

  • Written by: Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Deakin University

When not being forced to waste their time and formidable expertise researching furphies like wind turbine syndrome or homeopathy, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) can get on with producing exemplary public health statements like their newest one on water fluoridation.

Begun in 2014 in response to this sort of...

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After Tasmania's year of disasters, bushfire tops the state's growing list of natural hazards

  • Written by: Christopher J. White, Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, University of Tasmania
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Tasmania has had a damaging year, with the island state hit by a series of bushfires and floods.

Now a comprehensive new assessment of Tasmania’s exposure to natural disasters shows that bushfire remains the number one hazard to people and property, while also highlighting a range of new threats. These include coastal flooding, pandemic...

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  1. Race to the White House – Episode One
  2. Social media and defamation law pose threats to free speech, and it's time for reform
  3. FactCheck: Have eight of Australia's 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years?
  4. Breaking news: marriage has very little to do with religion (and vice versa)
  5. Media owners steer government away from reform in the public interest
  6. Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?
  7. Shadow banking increases the risk of another global financial crisis
  8. Here’s looking at: John Olsen, Summer in the You Beaut Country, 1962
  9. What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many people get it wrong?
  10. Squandering riches: can Perth realise the value of its biodiversity?
  11. Into the spotlight: media coverage of the Paralympic Games has come a long way
  12. Making drug development less secretive could lead to quicker, cheaper therapies
  13. Pauline Hanson 20 years on: same refrain, new target
  14. Newspoll steady, with Turnbull's poor ratings continuing
  15. Senator, You're No Socrates
  16. Foreign donations on agenda for parliamentary inquiry
  17. Shorten shoots down plebiscite
  18. To get young people into work, we first need to understand how the workplace is changing
  19. Despite the funding cut, ARENA's glass is still half full – here's how to spend the money
  20. Weekly Dose: cannabis has been used medicinally for millennia, why is legalising it taking so long?
  21. Explainer: why Hanjin's ships are stranded around the globe
  22. A day for turning parking spaces into pop-up parks
  23. How Game of Thrones' Emmy-award-winning battle scene was made
  24. Going bankrupt is a life changing decision – so why is the process to do it so easy?
  25. Yes, education funding has increased – but not everyone benefits
  26. Politics podcast: Don Watson on the rise of Trump
  27. Explainer: the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  28. Section 18C is an important part of a civilised society and no threat to free speech
  29. Why is the advertising industry still promoting violence against women?
  30. Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
  31. Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions
  32. First person: how the Paralympics changed my life
  33. We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
  34. Australia is locking up too many women but the UK offers a blueprint for a radical new approach
  35. Guide to the classics: Ovid's Metamorphoses and reading rape
  36. Confused? Don't worry because that can be a good thing
  37. People are 'blind' to plants, and that's bad news for conservation
  38. Australian Renewable Energy Agency saved but with reduced funding – experts react
  39. What is the role of a teacher?
  40. Gay Liberal senator denounces marriage plebiscite
  41. Australia's housing affordability problem explained in five historical steps
  42. Risky business: how companies are getting smart about climate change
  43. Government gets a deal for $6.3 billion in savings to pass parliament
  44. Here's why we need nurse-resident ratios in aged care homes
  45. Dickensian approach to residential tenants lingers in Australian law
  46. Australia's Health 2016 report card: experts respond
  47. Young people worldwide fear a lack of economic opportunities – it's easy to see why
  48. LNP abandons hope of challenging Herbert result
  49. Chris Mitchell writes a love letter to himself
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