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Medical tourism: having an op overseas adds to the everyday risk of surgery

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageIf surgery is a third of the price elsewhere, it can be a tempting option.from www.shutterstock.com.au, CC BY-SA

Medical tourism is the practice of travelling outside one’s home country for medical or surgical treatment. It includes dental tourism, but not wellness tourism, which usually refers to visiting spas, homeopathy treatments or...

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On public trust and The Conversation's fifth birthday

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

The Conversation celebrated its fifth anniversary last night with a party at RMIT University.

The event was hosted by RMIT Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean, with speeches from Victoria’s Deputy Premier and Education Minister James Merlino, Universities Australia Chief Executive Belinda Robinson and Conversation founder and Editor-in-Chief Andrew...

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Labor pledges royal commission into bank behaviour

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised a Labor government would set up a royal commission into misconduct in the banking and financial services industry.

Shorten said public confidence in the sector had taken “hit after hit” in recent years, which have seen a string of revelations about bad behaviour.

“Many Australians have...

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  1. Suburbanising the centre: the Baird government's anti-urban agenda for Sydney
  2. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on a royal commission into the banks
  3. Arrium's collapse shows Australia must get a lot smarter about steel
  4. Vital Signs: all eyes on the Aussie dollar
  5. FactCheck: are two-thirds of all industrial disputes in Australia in the construction sector?
  6. Greater police powers and penalties threaten civil liberties in NSW for 'public safety'
  7. Cape York's ecosystems are worth billions of dollars: time to share the wealth
  8. CSIRO must ensure climate science is maintained
  9. Grattan on Friday: Banks' bad behaviour becomes latest pre-election jousting ground
  10. Why we should design smart cities for getting lost
  11. Flawed GST system skews state transport projects
  12. A grim future for Arrium, Ford and Queensland Nickel workers?
  13. Kitchen Science: everything you eat is made of chemicals
  14. Twisted light could dramatically boost internet speeds
  15. Friday essay: Fury Road, The Force Awakens and the 'real' vs digital effects furphy
  16. Politics podcast: Peter Whish-Wilson on the need for a royal commission into banks
  17. Death of a partner can endanger your heart health
  18. BBSW – too dumb to understand?
  19. Indigenous youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder need Indigenous-run alternatives to prison
  20. We've found a Shakespeare folio but a swag of original plays are still missing
  21. New relaxed drone regulations will help the industry take off
  22. If not Gonski funding, then what?
  23. Do women take their husband's surname after marriage because of biology?
  24. High housing costs create worries for city tourism and hospitality
  25. Lessons in living heritage from Tokyo to Adelaide
  26. Virtual reality brings new dimension to conservation
  27. Labor takes lead in Newspoll as state income tax plan bombs
  28. Superannuation 'objective' likely to be captured by industry
  29. Coral Bleaching Taskforce: more than 1,000 km of the Great Barrier Reef has bleached
  30. We can't trust drug companies to wine, dine and educate doctors about the drugs they prescribe
  31. Invisible influence: why sales reps are forming relationships with nurses
  32. Hillary Clinton as president will not necessarily be a feminist coup
  33. Nudges, not legislation will drive people to save more for retirement
  34. The banking sector can do its bit to combat family violence
  35. How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
  36. Turnbull needs to act on bank royal commission to boost his credibility on the unions
  37. Politics podcast: Glenn Lazarus on the government's industrial relations legislation
  38. The Carmichael mine lease shows that decisions on coal need a much wider perspective
  39. Weekly Dose: ecstasy, the party drug that could be used to treat PTSD
  40. Banking – the culture wars
  41. Banks get a bollocking from Turnbull on ethics
  42. Hidden housemates: Australia's huge and hairy huntsman spiders
  43. St Vincent's scandal: what is cancer chemotherapy and why is correct dosing important?
  44. How council mergers and reforms imperil local government democracy
  45. Higher education policies could result in big increase to federal debt: experts respond
  46. The Walking Dead: why that final point-of-view shot tells us nothing
  47. Panama Papers' dodgy middlemen are nothing new, as our own tax scandals show
  48. Trees versus light rail: we need to rethink skewed urban planning values
  49. Benefits of the census retaining names and addresses should outweigh privacy fears
  50. The leakers of Panama

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