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Prisons need better drug treatment programs to control infectious diseases

  • Written by: Kate Dolan, Professor of Global Prisoner Health, UNSW Australia
imageThose who enter prison uninfected are at risk of becoming infected.josefkubes/Shutterstock

Worldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B infections.

In many countries, prisons are underfunded and overcrowded, and in...

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FactCheck Q A: who is responsible for going to war in the Westminster system?

  • Written by: Gabrielle Appleby, Associate Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Australia
imageAttorney-General George Brandis, speaking on Q&A to host Tony Jones and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Tanya Plibersek.Q&A

The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or...

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Should Tesla's autopilot cars be allowed on public roads following accidents?

  • Written by: Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61

Humans are terrible at driving. The US Department of Transport estimates that 94% of crashes are due to the driver.

We drive too fast. We get distracted. We make poor decisions.

If history is anything to go by, more than 1,000 people are likely to die on Australian roads in the next year. Each death is a tragedy for the families and friends of those...

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Vital Signs: it's time to borrow to build

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia
imageMoney is cheap right now, so where are the returns?Image sourced from shutterstock.com

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: A break from the...

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