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how poverty makes it hard to escape mental illness

  • Written by: Graham Meadows, Professor of Adult Psychiatry, Monash University
how poverty makes it hard to escape mental illnessSocioeconomic disadvantage is a known risk factor for mental illness.From shutterstock.com

The poorer people are, the higher their chances of contending with domestic violence, crime, social conflict, homelessness and unemployment.

All these factors contribute to increased levels of psychological distress, which is associated with common mental...

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Ultra-low unemployment is in our grasp. How Philip Lowe became the governor who lifted our ambition

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Rarely does a Reserve Bank governor get to remake Australia.

HC “Nugget” Coombs, the first Reserve Bank governor, did.

As director general of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction from 1943, he was instrumental in creating the White Paper on Full Employment in Australia that was adopted as a guide by prime ministers from Chifley to...

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it's Jeremy Hunt (who?) vs Boris Johnson (yes, really), with the future of the UK at stake

  • Written by: Ben Wellings, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University

The United Kingdom will have another prime minister by the end of July, when members of the Conservative party choose between Jeremy Hunt (who?) and Boris Johnson (yes, really).

Aside from the morbid fascination of watching this from afar, this leadership contest matters because it will determine who will (presumably) lead the UK out of the...

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6 charts on the inner cities of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne

  • Written by: Seetu Bajracharya, Graduate student of master of urban and regional planning, The University of Queensland
6 charts on the inner cities of Brisbane, Sydney and MelbourneFrom 2006 to 2016, the population of Melbourne's inner city grew by 78%. Shutterstock

In just ten years, the inner city populations of Australia’s biggest state capitals have boomed.

We examined Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census data comparing the population in 2006 and 2016 and found, in Brisbane, the inner-city population grew by...

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