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Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth

  • Written by: Vicki Flenady, Professor, Mater Research Institute; Director, Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth, The University of Queensland
Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirthUp to half of stillbirths happen unexpectedly and a clear cause is never identified.from shutterstock.com

Six Australian babies are stillborn each day. This equates to more than 2,000 babies each year.

Stillbirth is defined as the death of a baby of at least 20 weeks’ gestation or 400 grams in weight. Most stillbirths occur during pregnancy.

T...

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The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its posterLeah Ashwood, Jasper Lloyd, and Texas Watterston in The School (2018).Bronte Pictures, Head Gear Films, Kreo Films FZ

Review: The School

There’s something about the Australian context that lends itself to explorations of horror. As I have argued elsewhere, the combination of what historian Geoffrey Blainey famously described as the...

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how working parents manage school holidays and their jobs

  • Written by: Candice Harris, Professor of Management, Auckland University of Technology
how working parents manage school holidays and their jobsWorking parents have to piece together different childcare arrangements to get through the summer school holidays.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

The countdown is on towards the summer school holidays – a time many working parents approach with a mix of anticipation and trepidation.

School holidays are important for children as they offer...

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Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content

  • Written by: Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, PhD Candidate, Arts/Media & Law, UNSW

The social networking and microblogging site Tumblr announced on Monday that from December 17 it will no longer host adult content on its platform. The Washington Post reported that the policy “removes one of the last major refuges for pornography on social media”.

But the move will affect more than just porn.

Over time, Tumblr has...

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  2. love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
  3. Men get postnatal depression too, and as the mother's main support, they need help
  4. Darwin port's sale is a blueprint for China's future economic expansion
  5. 35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us
  6. Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?
  7. Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war
  8. Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger
  9. Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about
  10. Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring
  11. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  12. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
  13. Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it
  14. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  15. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  16. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  17. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  18. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  19. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  20. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  21. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  22. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  23. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  24. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  25. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  26. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  27. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  28. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  29. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  30. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
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  32. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  33. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  34. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  35. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  36. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  37. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  38. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  39. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  40. how cities can make room for water
  41. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  42. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
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  44. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
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