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Here's looking at: Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef by Janet Laurence

  • Written by: Prudence Gibson, Art writer and Tutor, UNSW Australia
imageJanet Laurence's new installation Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef. Supplied

Have you noticed how loud your breathing is when you’re swimming under water? It’s a muffled and eerie sound, but there is pleasure in the evenly timed movement of air through your lungs.

If you cover your ears, the same echoed inhalation and...

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The winners and losers in the race for driverless cars

  • Written by: Michael Milford, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageTaking the drive out of the car will change the transportation industry.Shutterstock/Rob d

The ridesharing service Uber is pretty close to getting the go-ahead in almost all states and territories in Australia, with Victoria set to follow Queensland in introducing new legislation.

In the short term, Uber has committed to creating tens of thousands...

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How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians?

  • Written by: Nicole Lee, Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
imageThere has been particular concern about methamphetamine use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.Matthew/flickr, CC BY

While rates of methamphetamine use in Australia have remained fairly stable at 2.1% over the past ten years, there has been a shift among people who use the lower-grade powdered form of methamphetamine (speed) to...

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Why are professional development standards for new and returning federal MPs so inadequate?

  • Written by: Colleen Lewis, Adjunct Professor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
imageHow well prepared are federal MPs to undertake the arduous tasks that will confront them daily?AAP/Mick Tsikas

MPs and senators, 226 in all, will soon commence proceedings in Australia’s newly elected 45th federal parliament. But how well prepared are they to undertake the arduous tasks that will confront them daily?

To address that question,...

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  1. Ticked off: let’s stop our dogs and cats dying of tick paralysis this year
  2. Why Weiner is Wonderful
  3. Albanese warns Labor over clean energy supplement in omnibus bill
  4. The BBC's top 100 21st century films? Give me a break!
  5. (Real) football: the reds buy the Reds?
  6. Labor easily wins NT election
  7. Adrift in a sea of violence: Obama’s legacy, and the prospect of a Trump or Clinton presidency
  8. The Miles Franklin winner: a dark, sorrowful story with moments of light and tenderness
  9. Same-sex marriage plebiscite appears doomed
  10. Is your employer watching you? Online profiling blurs the boundary of our public and private lives
  11. Abbott steps into budget debate, saying reform is a precondition for tax cuts
  12. Young people with cancer should have affordable options to preserve their fertility
  13. Australia's stance on nuclear deterrence leaves it on the wrong side of history
  14. EcoCheck: Australia's vast, majestic northern savannas need more care
  15. Telegraph story on research funding does nothing to advance Australian journalism
  16. VET FEE-HELP reforms will merely paper over the cracks of a system prone to abuse
  17. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on budget savings
  18. Two million Aussies are experiencing high financial stress
  19. Earthquakes don't kill, our collapsing structures do. So how can we build them to stay up?
  20. Electronic baby simulators could increase, not decrease, teen pregnancy
  21. America is moving to end its use of private prisons – should Australia follow suit?
  22. Friday essay: From Bowie to Bieber – the under-appreciated art of the music video
  23. Interview: Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and inventor of the home computer
  24. Why males are more likely to die from conception to old age
  25. Australia needs to lead again on democratic innovation
  26. Feral animals are running amok on Australia's islands – here's how to stop them
  27. Vital Signs: Jackson Hole could deliver the monetary change Xenophon wants
  28. Di Natale takes Hanson-Young out of asylum seeker area
  29. Grattan on Friday: Shorten wants to play hardball but can he dodge the 'opportunist' tag?
  30. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on becoming a senator
  31. Oil, gas and marine parks really can coexist in our oceans – here's how
  32. Scott Morrison has correctly diagnosed the problem, but needs to be flexible about solutions
  33. Touching, ferocious and poetic, the Miles Franklin shortlist is worthy of your attention
  34. How to manage weight issues with your teenager when you're not meant to talk about weight
  35. Turnbull steps in as promised, but don't expect a swift end to firefighter dispute
  36. Watch your language, Scott Morrison
  37. What you see is not always what you get: how virtual reality can manipulate our minds
  38. Why 100 years without slum housing in Australia is coming to an end
  39. A world with inequality everywhere is a moral and economic threat
  40. Why is sexual harassment in the AFP systemic? And can the culture be changed?
  41. Full response from SGS Economics and Planning
  42. FactCheck: does the average Australian family spend up to $22,000 every year on transport?
  43. Why obesity is not a 'left versus right' issue
  44. Australia should look overseas for ideas to increase its number of women MPs
  45. The Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised
  46. Sustainable housing's expensive, right? Not when you look at the whole equation
  47. 154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches the science
  48. An open letter to the Prime Minister on the climate crisis, from 154 scientists
  49. Explainer: arthrogryposis – the congenital disorder linked to Zika
  50. Rio 2016 was just the latest round in the long-running doping arms race

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