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Doctors or activists? Who draws the line?

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

The Division of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has released a strongly worded statement about the harm caused to children in immigration detention. The statement in part asserts “as a country, we are failing the most vulnerable people in our care.” The RACP itself has been publicly...

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Winning Edge fails to deliver, so what now for Australia's Olympic hopes?

  • Written by: Lisa Gowthorp, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Bond University
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Rio 2016 is over and questions are being asked about why the Australian team didn’t perform any better. Making things worse is the fact that this worsening performance comes despite a new sports funding strategy that was supposed to boost the national medal tally.

Following a disappointing performance by the national team at the London 2012...

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Do you know a Bunji from a Boorie? Meet our dictionary's new Indigenous words

  • Written by: Bruce Moore, Visiting Fellow in the School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Australian National University
imageBalga is the Noongar name for the grass tree - seen here in the Flinders Ranges.Melanie Ball/AAP

A new edition of the Australian National Dictionary has just been published. It contains 16,000 words and while the first edition (published in 1988) included about 250 words from 60 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, the latest has more...

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Malaysia’s Bersih movement shows social media can mobilise the masses

  • Written by: Carmen Leong, Lecturer in School of Information Information Systems, Technology and Management, UNSW Australia

The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street are not the only media-driven civic movements that have advocated for social or political reform.

In Malaysia a civic movement called the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections – better known by its Malay name “Bersih”, which means clean – has enabled people to express their political...

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  1. Science or Snake Oil: is A2 milk better for you than regular cow’s milk?
  2. Shock horror: the big end of town has finally discovered Australia's media is a whitewash
  3. Australia's new focus on gas could be playing with fire
  4. Quantimentals, signal surfing and fast walkers: mapping the rise of weird data
  5. Universities Australia to survey prevalence of sexual abuse on campuses
  6. If you're going to ridicule research, do your homework
  7. Australia continues to be shamefully silent on Indonesia's human rights abuses
  8. The price of victory: comparing the cost of Olympic gold to an elite arts prize
  9. New Zealand is letting economics rule its environmental policies
  10. New modelling on bushfires shows how they really burn through an area
  11. Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard: how the media shape our view of leaders as 'women'
  12. Health Check: should kids be given antibiotics in their first year?
  13. Omran Daqneesh: the poster child for cognitive dissonance
  14. The Panopticons are coming! And they'll know when we think the grass is greener
  15. Genes are not destiny: environment and education still matter when it comes to intelligence
  16. A fortune built on slavery: the Bright Family Papers and their journey from UK to Melbourne
  17. Here's to coaches, unsung heroes and role models for social change
  18. Why Rio, like Sydney and London before it, won't turn locals into sports stars
  19. Viewpoints: is addiction a disease?
  20. Offshore detention: Australians have a right to know what is done in their name
  21. Can buying up fishing licences save Australia's sharks?
  22. New risks for disability care workers under the NDIS
  23. What role should universities play in today's society?
  24. Why the ACCC siding with the banks against Apple will not be in consumers' interests
  25. Shorten says grievance tribunal would not stop bank 'rip offs'
  26. Colin Barnett says same-sex marriage should be settled by parliament
  27. An historic handful of dirt: Whitlam and the legacy of the Wave Hill Walk-Off
  28. Turnbull's backbench muscles up
  29. Morrison gives final 'no' to Chinese on Ausgrid
  30. Research Check: do we really need to do five times as much exercise as we've been told?
  31. When ancient lovers meet: the best planet duo of 2016
  32. To future-proof our crops from drought, look to the Australian deserts
  33. Gaming trends show cities need to rethink how they tap into creative economy
  34. Disrupted businesses are struggling in the valley of death
  35. Will women ever be able to compete against men in Olympic events?
  36. How Australia's children's authors create magic on a page
  37. How we moderate off-topic comments
  38. When industry-sponsored research is on the nose
  39. Research Check: does paracetamol in pregnancy cause child behavioural problems?
  40. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on offshore detention
  41. 'Be careful posting images online' is just another form of modern-day victim-blaming
  42. Friday essay: the untold story behind the 1966 Wave Hill Walk-Off
  43. Cheating, bribery and scandal: how the ancient Greeks did the Olympic Games
  44. Equal but not the same: equestrian sport's unisex approach hides inequity
  45. Common lumps and bumps on and under the skin: what are they?
  46. When punitive media intrude on the courts' role, can justice be served?
  47. A task for Australia's energy ministers: remove barriers to better buildings
  48. Deliveroo strike win shows gig workers can subvert the rules too
  49. Want to be a space tour guide? Apply here... in 2025
  50. Grattan on Friday: Dutton should stop whinging and find solution to the offshore problem

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