New research into the health of newly arrived refugee children in Australia gives us clues about how we can help all refugee kids.
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It is our view vitamin “gummies” that contain food acids, and have a high sugar content, are not medicines consumers need and their sale should be prohibited on public health grounds.
Ken Thaiday Snr, an internationally-acclaimed artist from Erub Island in the Torres Strait, has been awarded a 2017 Red Ochre Award. Thaiday’s work draws on dance, the people and land of the islands to produce elaborate masks and headdresses.
Indigenous Australians have issued a statement calling for constitutional reform that is substantive and meaningful.
No problem too big #1: Artificial intelligence and killer robots
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In this special Speaking With podcast episode, a panel of artists and researchers speculates on the end of the world due to artificial intelligence and killer robots, as though it has already happened.
The National Gallery of Australia’s Third National Indigenous Art Triennial presents a passionate well-considered argument for an enduring Aboriginal culture.
Trump’s budget is bad in every way. But that doesn’t excuse us here of ridiculous assumptions.
Despite some recent problems, there are many advantages to going public.
Private renters’ security of tenure in Australia has less legal protection than in other countries with high private rental rates. A new study reveals mixed responses to this state of uncertainty.
Mr Burns is a dazzling meditation on the meaning of theatre through The Simpsons.
Nanoparticles are a form of transport for drugs and can go places drugs wouldn’t be able to go on their own. They make drug delivery more targeted, reducing collateral damage to healthy tissues.
Charles Darwin believed that humans evolved in Africa, because that’s where our closest ape relatives the chimpanzees and gorillas live. And during the twentieth century he was vindicated through a combination…
At Uluru, Indigenous representatives from across Australia will aim to reach consensus on what constitutional recognition means to them.
The 1967 referendum fell far short in giving people what they thought they were voting for, and in giving Aboriginal people what they wanted from it.
The AiGroup’s Innes Willox told Q&A that Australia has one of the highest progressive tax rates in the developed world. Is that true?
The government’s best ideas for how to grow wages and incomes do not inspire confidence.
Almost nowhere in our capital cities can low-income households – and those on average incomes in Sydney – afford the median rent. Mapping rental vulnerability finds it in regional areas too.
More of us are labelled as sick with the constantly changing diagnostic cut-offs for diseases. Now an international expert panel has drafted a list of things to consider before setting new thresholds.
There is an urgent need to reconsider steroid use as a public health issue as opposed to a criminal justice concern.
“It is time for a digital Geneva Convention to protect the internet.”
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Professor and Program Lead in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute; Clinical Psychologist, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNSW
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Lecturer, Journalism and Communication, UNSW
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Postdoctoral research associate, UNSW Canberra School of Business, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business, UNSW
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW
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Research Fellow, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University; UNSW ; Burnet Institute
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW
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Associate professor, UNSW International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW
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Visiting Fellow, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Business, UNSW
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Lecturer, UNSW Canberra School of Business, UNSW
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Pharmacist and Lecturer, UNSW ; University of Sydney