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Autistic kids low on vital social hormone, study suggests

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imageVasopressin may be used to treat social deficits in children with autism.kids with ball, from shutterstock.com

Increasing autistic children’s levels of vasopressin, a hormone that regulates social behaviour, could help treat the social deficits common to autism, research suggests.

Vasopressin is one of two key hormones (together with oxytocin)...

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What an equitable GST reform package should look like

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imageAustralia's government leaders are yet to unite on tax reform.Mick Tsikas/AAP

Discussion of an increased GST at this week’s leaders' retreat is based on two motivations.

Firstly, state governments expect future structural budget deficits if they are to meet growing outlays for expenditure on health, education and the national disability...

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What are the best ways to discipline kids?

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imageResearch says this is not a constructive option.from www.shutterstock.com.au

“To smack or not to smack?” is still the question at the forefront of many parents’ minds. Gone are the days, it seems, when a simple clip over the ears was considered an appropriate way of restoring order.

Corporal punishment has largely been outlawed in...

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Literary awards and Joan London’s The Golden Age

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imageDeciding on the winner of a literary award is, in the end, a highly subjective process.RebeccaVC1

Does Australia have too many literary awards? Almost every year there seems to be a new one, a far cry from the 1950s when Miles Franklin left a bequest to establish the award that now bears her name.

My response has always been that few Australian...

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