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People with mental illness still die a decade earlier than those without

  • Written by: Annette Erlangsen, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University
imageThe largest differences in early death between those with and without mental disorders were for respiratory diseases and alcohol misuse.Jake Oates

Men who are diagnosed with a mental health condition can expect to live 10.2 years less than those who aren’t, according to our new research, published this week in The Lancet Psychiatry. The life...

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Queensland finally has a government, but the path ahead for both major parties looks rocky

  • Written by: Chris Salisbury, Lecturer in Australian Studies, The University of Queensland
imageThis is not the clear-cut election result Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor hoped for.AAP/Glenn Hunt

After going to the polls on November 25, Queenslanders finally have a state election result as Liberal National Party leader Tim Nicholls conceded defeat on Friday.

Following a four-week campaign, votes were counted for almost a fortnight until...

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Wall Street at 30: is greed still good?

  • Written by: Siobhan Lyons, Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
imageMichael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.20th Century Fox/IMDB

December 11 marks the 30th anniversary of Oliver Stone’s darkly perceptive Wall Street. The film exemplified the ’80s yuppie era during Ronald Reagan’s conservative presidency: a time when a celebrity suddenly became president and greed was good.

Wall...

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Health Check: how can I make it easier to wake up in the morning?

  • Written by: Crystal Grant, PhD Student, Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory, University of South Australia
imageWaking up is hard to do.Kinga Cichewicz/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Getting a good sleep can be tough, and this can lead to feeling less than refreshed when you wake up in the morning. Falling asleep and waking up are brain processes we don’t fully understand, but research suggests these transitions are a lot more gradual than the flip of a switch.

Even...

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  2. From postal survey to parliament: how Australia legalised same-sex marriage
  3. Spare a thought for Bethlehem this Christmas as politics and tourism collide
  4. World's scientists turn to Asia and Australia to rewrite human history
  5. Friday essay: monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths
  6. It would cost you 20 cents more per T-shirt to pay an Indian worker a living wage
  7. Looking beyond the sandstone: universities reinvent campuses to bring together town and gown
  8. Losing weight is hard, but it's not any harder if you have type 2 diabetes
  9. Sustainable shopping: how to buy tuna without biting a chunk out of the oceans
  10. How parents and teens can reduce the impact of social media on youth well-being
  11. We have marriage equality, now we need LGBTQi+-inclusive sexuality education in schools
  12. Grattan on Friday: Bill Shorten faces a summer of uncertainty
  13. Flood of same-sex weddings in January, after historic parliamentary vote
  14. Australia has finally achieved marriage equality, but there's a lot more to be done on LGBTI rights
  15. What is meningococcal disease and what are the options for vaccination?
  16. Barbara and the Camp Dogs turns pub theatre into an impassioned call to listen to Indigenous Australians
  17. Why digital apps can be good gifts for young family members
  18. Explainer: how lending startups like Afterpay make their money
  19. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on new foreign interference laws
  20. Would you buy a theatre ticket for someone who can't afford it? Now you can
  21. Nationals elect Bridget McKenzie as new deputy
  22. A new species of marsupial lion tells us about Australia's past
  23. New foreign interference laws will compound risks to whistleblowers and journalists
  24. Drought on the Murray River harms ocean life too
  25. What happened to the price of Bitcoin? The truth behind big bubbles and crashes
  26. Ban on foreign political donations is both too broad and too narrow, and won't fix our system
  27. Travelling these holidays? Follow tips the Socceroos use to conquer jet lag
  28. They know where you go: dockless bike sharing looms as the next disruptor – if key concerns are fixed
  29. From 'demented' to 'person with dementia': how and why the language of disability changed
  30. Children have strokes too and doctors often miss them. New guidelines will help
  31. Out of character: how acting puts a mental strain on performers
  32. High Court to rule on two Labor MPs, but partisan row protects others
  33. Russia's humiliating ban from the Winter Olympics is the right move to protect integrity in sport
  34. International study shows many Australian children are still struggling with reading
  35. Bali's Mt Agung eruption shows how businesses should and shouldn't react to uncontrollable events
  36. My favourite album: Miles Davis’s A Tribute to Jack Johnson
  37. I've got varicose veins. What can I do about them?
  38. Near enough may not be good enough as parliament's dual citizenship crisis deepens
  39. A new approach to regional higher education is essential to our economic future
  40. How the excuse of 'pure fantasy' works in online child sex abuse cases
  41. Green groups and charities could be collateral damage in government's foreign donation ban
  42. People love parklets, and businesses can help make them happen
  43. What makes us sign up to subscription boxes
  44. From Oregon to Belgium to Victoria – the different ways suffering patients are allowed to die
  45. China’s growing footprint on the globe threatens to trample the natural world
  46. Still counting: why the visual arts must do better on gender equality
  47. Curious Kids: Where does the oxygen come from in the International Space Station, and why don’t they run out of air?
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  49. Speaking with: Emrys Westacott on the virtue of frugal living
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