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Your postcode shouldn't determine your health – or whether you're admitted to hospital

  • Written by Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageSome regions have had rates of preventable hospital admissions 50% above the state average for more than a decade. Marcos Mesa Sam Wordley/Shutterstock

People ending up in hospital for diabetes, tooth decay, or other conditions that should be treatable or manageable out of hospital is a warning sign of system failure. And Australia’s health...

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There's a time to put down the smartphone, seriously!

  • Written by Brett Hutchins, Associate Professor in Media Studies and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Monash University
imageThe typical view at a concert when fans take out their smartphones.Shutterstock/Pressmaster

Fans of singer-songwriter Alicia Keys were greeted with a simple message earlier this year when they entered the Highline Ballroom, in New York, to watch her perform.

This is a phone free event.

Their smartphones were placed in a lockable pouch distributed by...

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Turnbull presses premiers for quick action on post-sentencing regime for terrorism prisoners

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

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked states and territories to finalise a post sentencing detention scheme for terrorism crimes so legislation can come in quickly.

The proposed regime will allow high-risk terrorist offenders to be held beyond their sentence. The court-supervised process will be similar to the arrangements in a number of...

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Wong wins foreign affairs in Shorten's new frontbench line up

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageBill Shorten announces his frontbench with deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek.AAP/Andrew Taylor

Bill Shorten has made some very sound decisions in his far-reaching frontbench overhaul, but the exercise contained some shockers as well.

Moving deputy leader Tanya Plibersek from shadow foreign minister to a beefed up education portfolio puts more heft...

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  2. What animal could a democracy be? Ape, fox, lion ... how about jellyfish?
  3. Trump and the Ugliness of the Charm Defensive
  4. Plibersek moves to high profile education job in ALP reshuffle
  5. How Russian doping could lead to Rio 2016 ban
  6. Turkey’s almost coup and the need for perspective
  7. Shorten provides Kim Carr with life raft
  8. Government needs to get balance right in regulating agriculture
  9. Asia’s 'shoot-to-kill' republic? The rising body count of the Philippines’ 'war on drugs'
  10. Is the end of Zika nigh? How populations develop immunity
  11. How gross inequality and crushed hopes have fed the rise of Donald Trump
  12. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the frontbench reshuffles
  13. What we really need from innovation in Australia
  14. Calls for deradicalisation programs after Nice attack should be met with caution
  15. How we lock accounts on The Conversation
  16. Five tips to get the government started on real health reform
  17. FactCheck Q A: has the Grand Mufti of Australia condemned terrorist attacks overseas?
  18. Friday essay: secrets of the Delphic Oracle and how it speaks to us today
  19. What Australia can learn from England's plan for vocational education
  20. Italians again migrate to Australia, but experience work exploitation
  21. Turnbull orders review of local threat from lone wolf extremists
  22. Inner-city bias: the suburbs need a fair go
  23. 'Slapped cheek' syndrome: a common rash in kids, more sinister in pregnant women
  24. New cancer treatment? Scientists have programmed bacteria to kill cancer cells in mice
  25. Apple is taking its first steps towards a more comprehensive post-PC world
  26. Science by stealth: secret missions of a visual science communicator
  27. Grattan on Friday: Time for Labor and Greens to find common ground with government on marriage plebiscite
  28. The Cold Logic of Doing Good
  29. Politics podcast: Jim Chalmers on Labor's approach to the economy
  30. Your guide to see five planets after sunset
  31. Australia ranks 20th on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
  32. Xenophon and Katter's concerns over Ausgrid sale ring hollow
  33. Blood pressure targets – what does the new guideline say and how low should you go?
  34. Here's how to close the gap on Indigenous women smoking during pregnancy
  35. Politics serves as therapy when Trump takes the stage
  36. Smoothies as talismans: the allure of superfoods and the dangers of nutritional primitivism
  37. Why we need to hear what controversial people say and not silence the debate
  38. Grey dawn or the twilight years? Let’s talk about growing old
  39. A tale of five cities: applying foresight to shape their futures
  40. Weekly Dose: Truvada, the drug that can prevent HIV infection
  41. As life imitates art, how are we to read terror plots in film and TV?
  42. There are bright spots among the world’s coral reefs – the challenge is to learn from them
  43. How do we uncouple global development from resource use?
  44. Sleep problems that persist could affect children's emotional development
  45. Study of top business innovators shows more is needed than being tech savvy
  46. Earning influence: what power might Bernardi's grassroots lobby have?
  47. Migraines in childhood and adolescence: more than just a headache
  48. Climate policy needs a new lens: health and well-being
  49. A new brain-warp technique that helps to reconstruct fossil brains
  50. Productivity Commission attacks competition 'effects test' and farm foreign investment rules
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