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How sport can tackle violence against women and girls

  • Written by: Jonathon Louth, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Community Services Research, Flinders University
How sport can tackle violence against women and girlsThursday night football in the community of Wadeye, about 420 kilometres south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory.J. Louth

Sport is central to the lives of many Australians. This isn’t simply a reference to participation levels, but the importance of sport as a social institution. Organised sport, from the elite level though to local...

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Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?

  • Written by: Jessamy Gleeson, Research Officer, School of Global, Urban & Social Studies, RMIT University
Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944), the film that inspired the now widely used term. Metro Goldwyn-Mayer

Shortlisted for the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2018 word of the year, “gaslighting” has well and truly found its way into contemporary thought and vernacular.

The term has recently been employed to explain the...

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I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?

  • Written by: Seth Delpachitra, Clinical Tutor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?In a public hospital, a team of doctors will be looking after you.from shutterstock.com

If you’re about to, or have had, surgery in a public hospital, you may have wondered which doctor was actually operating on you. Was there one, or several? And what kind of training and expertise did they have? Would a junior doctor be allowed to cut you...

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Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand

  • Written by: Jesse Adams Stein, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building, University of Technology Sydney
Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demandPatternmaker Paul Kay is now used to the idea of working by himself.Jesse Stein, Author provided

With the re-election of the Andrews government in Victoria, the Free TAFE for Priority Courses policy will be rolled out in 2019. This is a positive step towards repairing the TAFE system, which has been damaged by years of funding cuts and competition...

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More Articles …

  1. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  2. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  3. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  4. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  5. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  6. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  7. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  8. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  9. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  10. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  11. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  12. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  13. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  14. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  15. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  16. how cities can make room for water
  17. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  18. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
  19. New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy
  20. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
  21. Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here's why
  22. free speech and Australian universities
  23. Here's the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)
  24. Operatic goddess Vivica Genaux reigns supreme in a lyrical study of conflicting desires
  25. Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks
  26. NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
  27. Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
  28. what it is and why it needs updating
  29. Australians think immigration should be cut? Well, it depends on how you ask
  30. here's how we avoid feeling guilty
  31. I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
  32. Fracking policies are wildly inconsistent across Australia, from gung-ho development to total bans
  33. Escher x nendo will surprise, delight and challenge
  34. Health impacts and murky decision-making feed public distrust of projects like WestConnex
  35. New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far
  36. Liberals adopt new rule to stop the revolving prime ministership
  37. Craig Kelly triumphs in the 'outwit, outplay, outlast' game of Survivor
  38. Adani's new mini version of its mega mine still faces some big hurdles
  39. what is nitrous oxide (or nangs) and how dangerous is it?
  40. G20 summit bring a truce in US-China trade relations – but it's likely to be temporary
  41. What existed before the Big Bang? Did something have to be there to go boom?
  42. Turnbull versus Morrison in Liberal crisis over Craig Kelly
  43. why more older Australians are living in share houses
  44. Yes, you can adopt a pet as a Christmas gift – so long as you do it correctly
  45. It's not just Newstart. Single parents are $271 per fortnight worse off. Labor needs an overarching welfare review
  46. How a candidate's looks may be swinging your vote (without you even realising it)
  47. why you might get the runs before a first date
  48. the origins of Rocky Horror's Frank-N-furter
  49. At last, Australia has a Modern Slavery Act. Here's what you'll need to know
  50. As they meet in Poland for the next steps, nations are struggling to agree on how the ambitions of the Paris Agreement can be realised

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