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Why people born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of measles – and what to do about it

  • Written by: Kristine Macartney, Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
Why people born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of measles – and what to do about itPeople may unknowingly bring measles back from other countries, including Europe. Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock

Australia was declared free of measles in 2014. Yet this summer we’ve seen nine cases of measles in New South Wales, and others in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.

High vaccination rates in Australia means...

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Mary Jane Cain, land rights activist, matriarch and community builder

  • Written by: Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Mary Jane Cain, land rights activist, matriarch and community builderMary Jane Cain (centre) with granddaughters Miley Barker and Molly Chatfield and her great niece Josephine.The sun dancin' : people and place Coonabarabran (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994)

For the communities of Coonabarabran in New South Wales and her grasslands Gomeroi people, Mary Jane Cain is a revered figure. Cain lived from 1844 to 1929. In...

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The stubborn high-pressure system behind Australia's record heatwaves

  • Written by: Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
The stubborn high-pressure system behind Australia's record heatwavesParts of Australia have broken multiple heat records over the past week.Vicki/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

If you think the weather this month has been like Groundhog Day (albeit much hotter), you’d probably be right! Much like a stuck record, weather systems seem to have stalled over most of the country.

Brisbane residents are questioning the lack of...

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To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act now

  • Written by: Paul Salmon, Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act nowWhat would Artificial General Intelligence make of the human world?Shutterstock/Nathapol Kongseang

Artificial intelligence can play chess, drive a car and diagnose medical issues. Examples include Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, Tesla’s self-driving vehicles, and IBM’s Watson.

This type of artificial intelligence is referred to as...

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  1. Australia's trade history really is something to celebrate
  2. Liberals stir the culture war pot but who's listening?
  3. is rain better than tap water for plants?
  4. what does the law say?
  5. My possessions spark joy! Will the KonMari decluttering method work for me?
  6. New research reveals how the marriage equality debate damaged LGBT Australians' mental health
  7. How genes and evolution shape gender – and transgender – identity
  8. Alban Berg's Wozzeck, an apocalyptic descent into madness
  9. When to seek help after taking a pill
  10. Here's how a 100% renewable energy future can create jobs and even save the gas industry
  11. 'Growth' of community housing may be an illusion. The cost-shifting isn't
  12. why more older Australians are declaring bankruptcy
  13. How safe is Australia? The numbers show public attacks are rare and on the decline
  14. Record US government shutdown harms Trump's ratings, plus Brexit chaos and Australian Essential poll
  15. Henrietta Baird's The Weekend proves the enduring power of solo performance
  16. why the government's James Cook infatuation may further divide the nation
  17. Australia will never be HIV-free if access to prevention requires a medicare card
  18. How does ecstasy kill?
  19. here's how to throw your stuff out
  20. Australia can do more to attract and keep women in parliament – here are some ideas
  21. how to stop Australian miners abroad being linked to death and destruction
  22. lessons from Australia’s first e-scooter sharing trial
  23. a biomechanics expert explains how
  24. the priestess Pythia at the Delphic Oracle, who spoke truth to power
  25. Morrison's Gilmore candidate is the man who's been everywhere
  26. How a default union membership could help reduce income inequality
  27. Coastal seas around New Zealand are heading into a marine heatwave, again
  28. Why we don't know if Irukandji jellyfish are moving south
  29. Three Charts on who uses illicit drugs in Australia
  30. Curious Kids: how is water made?
  31. What's behind the increase in bowel cancer among younger Australians?
  32. How to identify, understand and teach gifted children
  33. The Liberal Party is failing women miserably compared to other democracies, and needs quotas
  34. Video games could teach spatial skills lost to a society dependent on devices
  35. How moving house changes you
  36. Guide to the classics: Wide Sargasso Sea
  37. Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging
  38. As work gets more ambiguous, younger generations may be less equipped for it
  39. Frydenberg warns of economic waves ahead
  40. advertisers can't just celebrate masculinity and ignore the #metoo movement
  41. Time for a Kondo clean-out? Here's what clutter does to your brain and body
  42. A good plan to help Darling River fish recover exists, so let's get on with it
  43. Yes, Morrison 'showed up' in the Pacific, but what did he actually achieve?
  44. why do spiders have hairy legs?
  45. Fleeing family violence to another country and taking your child is not 'abduction', but that's how the law sees it
  46. Liberals lose yet another high-profile woman, yet still no action on gender
  47. Stranger than fiction. Who Labor's capital gains tax changes will really hurt
  48. The state of Australia's Indigenous languages – and how we can help people speak them more often
  49. Why are teachers mostly female? Because men get better pay in other professions
  50. 100 years later, why don't we commemorate the victims and heroes of "Spanish flu"?

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