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Menstrual cups vs tampons – here's how they compare

  • Written by: Melissa Kang, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
Menstrual cups vs tampons – here's how they compareTampons absorb menstrual fluid whereas menstrual cups collect it.Yulia Grigoryeva/Shutterstock

Around one-quarter of the world’s population menstruate. That’s more than 1.9 billion people in the world who will bleed, on average, for 65 days a year.

The reusable menstrual cup and disposable tampon were both developed in the 1930s. But...

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There is a problem with retirement incomes, but it isn't the super guarantee

  • Written by: Andrew Podger, Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
There is a problem with retirement incomes, but it isn't the super guaranteeThe problem is that extra savings cut the pension, it isn't the idea of extra savings.Shutterstock

There is a case for not proceeding with, or at least further deferring, the legislated increase in employers’ compulsory superannuation contributions from 9.5% to 12%.

But the Grattan Institute’s latest analysis, published in The...

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'Are you one of us or one of them?' Margaret Olley, Ben Quilty and a portrait of a generous friendship

  • Written by: Susan Ostling, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
'Are you one of us or one of them?' Margaret Olley, Ben Quilty and a portrait of a generous friendshipBen Quilty, Australia, born 1973. Margaret Olley 2011. Oil on linen / 170.0 x 150.0 cm. Collection of the artist. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Mim Stirling

Review: Margaret Olley: A Generous Life, and Quilty, QAGOMA


Margaret Olley’s exhibition at QAGOMA is titled A Generous Life, referring to her capacity to maintain enduring friendships,...

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Senate decides Pyne and Bishop have a few more parliamentary questions to answer

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

Martin Parkinson, secretary of the Prime Minister’s department, has cleared Christopher Pyne and Julie Bishop of breaching the government’s code of ministerial standards with their post-politics jobs. But it’s doubtful the average voter would take such a literal or generous view of their conduct.

Scott Morrison had flicked to...

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  13. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the next sitting week
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