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Vitamin D may protect against severe asthma attacks and hospitalisation

  • Written by: Julia Walters, Senior Research Fellow, Primary Health Care/Cochrane Airways Australia Coordinator, University of Tasmania
imageVitamin D seems to play a protective role when the lungs are inflamed and infected.from shutterstock.com

There has been some debate in recent times about the association between vitamin D levels and the risk of developing certain conditions such as diabetes, colon cancer, arthritis and infections. Studies show conflicting results. But when it comes...

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Improving teaching in rural schools - we need to stop borrowing approaches from overseas

  • Written by: Simone White, Professor, Chair of Teacher Education, Monash University
imageWe need to invest much more into those who teach the teachers.from www.shutterstock.com

In our series, Better Teachers, we’ll explore how to improve teacher education in Australia. We’ll look at what the evidence says on a range of themes including how to raise the status of the profession and measure and improve teacher quality.

While...

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The ethical and cultural case for culling Australia's mountain horses

  • Written by: Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
imageWild horses are wreaking havoc in Australia's mountainsLong Road Photography (formerly Aff)/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The fate of wild horses in Australia’s alps is once again stirring passions, particularly the idea of shooting them. The suggestion has prompted street protests against it, and public statements from academics (including myself) endo...

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With energy, ideas and cheek to spare, Richard Neville was the boy of OZ

  • Written by: Rebecca Daly, Associate Director, Collections & Scholarly Communications, University of Wollongong
imagePages one and two of issue 31 of OZ magazine.UPS via Wikimedia

This week saw the passing of Sydney-born Richard Neville – Australian enfant terrible of the 1960s, editor of OZ magazine (published from 1963-73) and leading spokesperson for the counterculture.

imageIssue one of OZ. (Click to enlarge.)Supplied

In looking at Neville’s life, both...

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  2. Company results wrap: retail sales flat, but some retailers buck the trend
  3. FactCheck Q A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia?
  4. Absurdist, poignant slapstick – plus a brass band – in En Avant, Marche!
  5. US-China ratification of Paris Agreement ramps up the pressure on Australia
  6. Can, or should, we save ARENA?
  7. Brazil ousting demonstrates the new coup rocking Latin America
  8. Health Check: is it bad to regularly sleep wearing earplugs?
  9. Protected areas are helping save our favourite animals – but let's not forget the others
  10. If the TPP dies, Australia has other game changing trade options
  11. Paranoid politics: how does Donald Trump get away with it?
  12. Habitat III: the biggest conference you’ve probably never heard of
  13. New Grattan research shows what is at stake in the superannuation debate
  14. Vital Signs: all eyes on the central bankers
  15. Explainer: what's meningococcal meningitis and what are the signs?
  16. Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways – we need to stop using unproven, harmful methods
  17. The Climate Change Authority report: a dissenting view
  18. Careful surveillance and pet wearables: at home with animals
  19. Why old theories on Indigenous counting just won't go away
  20. Will airlines ban Samsung phones after their recall for exploding batteries?
  21. Liberal Party 'internals' have a bad attack of acid stomach
  22. Victorian ReachTEL: Labor leads, but Andrews damaged by CFA dispute
  23. Boyer Lectures: Episode 1 – Health inequalities and the causes of the causes
  24. Turnbull flays colleagues after government's humiliation
  25. Food for thought: feeding our growing population with flies
  26. Creatine: what is it and should we supplement our diets with it?
  27. A Chinese company gave $3.6 million to Labor while bidding for government work – and it's totally legal
  28. Graf all you want, but don't you dare be poor!
  29. It's time to speak up about noise pollution in the oceans
  30. ACCC unlikely to secure compensation for Volkswagen customers
  31. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the shambles in the lower house
  32. Explainer: what treatment do young children receive for gender dysphoria and is it irreversible?
  33. Australian small businesses could be stretched by changes to commercial credit cards
  34. ACCC takes VW to court -- but will it help consumers?
  35. Questioning the 'miracles' of Saint Teresa
  36. Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?
  37. Direct Action not as motivating as carbon tax say some of Australia's biggest emitters
  38. Interactive: what powers does ASIO have to question and detain terror suspects?
  39. Explainer: what are drug cryptomarkets?
  40. To raise status of teaching, Australia needs to lift pay and cut teacher numbers
  41. The Climate Change Authority's gamble on political pragmatism
  42. Beneath the surface of tourism in Bali
  43. Friday essay: on listening to new national storytellers
  44. Human trials on Earth are the key to how we will survive on Mars
  45. Turnbull government loses discipline and votes in House chaos
  46. Grattan on Friday: Labor's Sam Dastyari suffers Chinese burn
  47. Politics podcast: Eric Abetz on the conservatives in the Liberal Party
  48. China hosts the G20: prepare to be underwhelmed?
  49. Lucy's shattered bones prove our ancestors lived a dangerous life in the trees
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