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Maxine Peake brings warmth and likeability to raw, bitter pain in a candid tale of IVF failure

  • Written by: Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
Maxine Peake brings warmth and likeability to raw, bitter pain in a candid tale of IVF failureMaxine Peake in the stage production of Julia Leigh's Avalanche: A Love Story.The Other Richard

Review: Avalanche: A Love Story, directed by Anne-Louise Sarks, Sydney Theatre Company

Maxine Peake’s character needs to find “another way to be happy”, but she can’t.

In Julia Leigh’s play Avalanche: A Love Story, based on...

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3 ways to help sex offenders safely reintegrate back into the community

  • Written by: Jamie Walvisch, Lecturer, Monash University
3 ways to help sex offenders safely reintegrate back into the communityGovernments should adopt measures that have been proven to be effective or at least show promise. Shutterstock

Few categories of offender invoke as strong a response as sex offenders. There is a public desire to “do something” about sex offenders, which is taken seriously by politicians of all persuasions.

One way governments have...

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In the Democrats' bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?

  • Written by: Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
In the Democrats' bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?She's sitting third on the list of Democratic nomination contenders, but might Elizabeth Warren ultimately be the person to beat Donald Trump?EPA/AAP/Craig Lassig

Conservative former congressman Joe Walsh recently announced he would challenge Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s 2020 Presidential nomination.

Challenging an incumbent...

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IVF changes babies' genes but these differences disappear by adulthood

  • Written by: Jane Halliday, Professor Public Health Genetics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
IVF changes babies' genes but these differences disappear by adulthoodAdults born via IVF are as healthy as their naturally conceived peers. Shutterstock

Around one in 25 Australian children are now conceived through use of assisted reproductive treatments such as IVF.

These reproductive technologies appear to leave a biological “signature” on several genes that can be measured at birth.

This may explain...

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