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Business as usual? The Sustainable Development Goals apply to Australian cities too

  • Written by: Wendy Steele, Associate Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University

We are still settling Australian cities on unceded Aboriginal lands. With the global agreement on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, development has finally come home to the developed world. Yet in Australia we still often proceed as if development goals are about foreign aid, somehow separate from our own development...

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I can't sleep. What drugs can I (safely) take?

  • Written by: Ric Day, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, UNSW
I can't sleep. What drugs can I (safely) take?There are many pharmacological options available for insomnia. But they will mostly make you reliant upon them for sleep. from www.shutterstock.com

If you’re having trouble sleeping, medicines shouldn’t be your first option. Exercise regularly, cut back on coffee (and other caffeinated drinks) after midday, eat less in the evening, ease...

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Trump versus China means picking sides

  • Written by: Giovanni Di Lieto, Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
Trump versus China means picking sidesIf the trade war with China escalates, siding with the US is going to cost, but Australia's long-term national interests still lie with it. Shutterstock

As Donald Trump escalates his trade war with China, slapping a 10% tariff on roughly $US200 billion of imports that will climb to 25% if China retaliates, he appears to found something of a soul...

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Do you 'zombie check' your phone? How new tools can help you control technology over-use

  • Written by: Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University
Do you 'zombie check' your phone? How new tools can help you control technology over-useDo you pull out your phone the instance you're bored? You're a zombie checker. rawpixel/Unsplash, CC BY

Technology has undoubtedly become essential for productivity and communication in our professional and personal lives.

However, the most prominent reason users of all ages reach for their device is not to work, but to “zombie check”....

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  1. Eulogy for a seastar, Australia's first recorded marine extinction
  2. Morrison's challenge with women goes beyond simple numbers
  3. antipsychotic drugs are rarely effective in 'calming' dementia patients
  4. How understanding animal behaviour can liberate us from gender inequality
  5. Legalising medical marijuana shows no effect on crime rates in US states
  6. Why NZ's emissions trading scheme should have an auction reserve price
  7. World politics explainer: the Iranian Revolution
  8. Why it's time to end the culture of bullying on reality TV
  9. New research shows Australian teens have complex views on religion and spirituality
  10. There's a gap between what people expect when they report cybercrime, and what police can deliver
  11. Giving environmental water to drought-stricken farmers sounds straightforward, but it's a bad idea
  12. Rising cyclist death toll is mainly due to drivers, so change the road laws and culture
  13. which one is most to blame when it comes to weight gain?
  14. It's hard to make money in aged care, and that's part of the problem
  15. The Beehive, a documentary in 1,344 versions, explores the unsolved murder of Juanita Nielsen
  16. Australian tertiary education funding is not as low as it seems in OECD metrics
  17. Morrison tells Liberal organisation to act on bullying after second woman flags she'll quit
  18. Labor's lead shrinks in federal Ipsos, but grows in Victorian Galaxy; Trump's ratings slip
  19. university publishing houses and the national creative estate
  20. Twenty-five years after the Oslo Accords, the prospect of peace in the Middle East remains bleak
  21. Essential reading to get your head around Australia's aged care crisis
  22. How do you know that we aren't in virtual reality right now?
  23. After a long struggle, the Uniting Church becomes the first to offer same-sex marriage
  24. Young Australians' prospects still come down to where they grow up
  25. An artist's surreal view of Australia – created from satellite data captured 700km above Earth
  26. Daily low-dose aspirin doesn't reduce heart-attack risk in healthy people
  27. the rise and rise of an unlikely hero
  28. Why yet another visa for farm work makes no sense
  29. How better tests and legal deterrence could clean up the sticky mess left behind by fake honey row
  30. Morrison faces the challenge of community-based candidate in Wentworth
  31. Outrage over schoolgirl refusing to stand for anthem shows rise of aggressive nationalism
  32. It's hard to spread the idiot fruit
  33. Evictions versus holdouts. How to painlessly dissolve a strata title
  34. Michelle Grattan on the Liberal pick for Wentworth and Morrison's bad week
  35. New law won't safeguard medicine supply – it'll only ensure we know there's a shortage
  36. Vital for life, heat and power – what you never knew about salt water
  37. How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect them
  38. Wentworth preselectors' rebuff to Morrison caps week of mayhem
  39. Once upon a time ... 'sleeping beauties' and the importance of storytelling in science
  40. who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo
  41. Vital signs. When cutting interest rates might not help
  42. Gender diversity is more accepted in society, but using the pronoun 'they' still divides
  43. We mapped cancer rates across Australia – search for your postcode here
  44. We need more flexible housing for 21st-century lives
  45. Year 11 and 12 students in NSW will no longer learn about women's contributions to physics
  46. How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle? Typically just 14 pieces
  47. Cathy McGowan and Rebekha Sharkie on the role of community candidates
  48. you're gonna need a bigger rope to tie down this alien hunter
  49. As Witness K trial opens, questions over how much of Timor-Leste spying case to keep secret from public
  50. knee arthroscopy is one of the most common but least effective surgeries

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