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Ticked off: let’s stop our dogs and cats dying of tick paralysis this year

  • Written by: Richard Malik, Veterinary Internist (Specialist), University of Sydney
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Tick paralysis is one of the most common preventable causes of death in dogs and cats along the east coast of Australia.

Some 10,000 dogs are affected each year, 5% of them fatally. That means 500 dogs will die from ticks each year, with the remainder undergoing discomfort and suffering.

What’s more, there is a great cost to owners. Bills for...

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Why Weiner is Wonderful

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

Another life time ago, I was standing in a bathroom putting on mascara. The man I was sleeping with - who was in a long term relationship with someone who wasn’t me - stood in the doorway watching .

Not quite in an afterglow sense, but it was pleasantly post-coital and I had assumed the silence was relaxed. Pleasant.

“I really miss...

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Albanese warns Labor over clean energy supplement in omnibus bill

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

Federal MPs reassemble in Canberra on Monday ahead of Tuesday’s opening of parliament, with the government talking up what the Coalition used to call a budget emergency and Labor keeping maximum pressure on Malcolm Turnbull on a range of issues.

Turnbull on Sunday rejected Tony Abbott’s Friday claim that when it came to budget repair...

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The BBC's top 100 21st century films? Give me a break!

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageLaura Harring and Naomi Watts in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, recently ranked 1st on the BBC's list of 21st century filmsMulholland Drive (2001)

The BBC recently released a list of the “greatest films of the 21st century.” This kind of list immediately raises hackles and heckles all over the place.

Unsurprisingly, a conventional kind...

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