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Not all terrorist incidents have mental illness as a causal factor, and most violent acts are committed by people without a mental illness.
Japanese encephalitis virus is rare and doesn’t usually cause symptoms. But in a small proportion of cases it can result in long-term neurological impairment and death.
While social media can serve to amplify social divisions, it can also be a tool for resolving conflict between groups.
Virgin Australia’s great military blunder of 2018 is a case study in corporate social responsibility gone wrong.
One of the state’s most significant powers is the ability to remove children from their families. Potential reforms in NSW could expand this already racialised power in frightening ways.
While broad-based counter-terrorism strategies aren’t very effective at preventing lone-actor attacks, community outreach efforts are having success turning troubled young lives around.
Emoji can be used on social media to spread racism in ways that make it seem normal, mundane and acceptable.
There is conclusive evidence that in most cases, suspension only reinforces negative behaviour.
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said “you can’t reflect society if 90% of your members of parliament were chosen from trade unions and worked in trade unions”. Let’s take a look at the numbers.
The city where the Kyoto Protocol was signed resolved some years ago to move away from cars and towards low-emission alternatives for getting around. And it’s making real progress towards that goal.
In the midst of the information technology revolution, Australia’s productivity growth has been slowing. It ought to have been the other way around.
Adenomyosis is a different condition to endometriosis, though many women who have one will have the other.
The images of Mary Magdalene made by Australian artist George Baldessin in the years before his sudden death in a car accident in 1977 are some of his most powerful works.
Probiotics might avert a case of diarrhoea, or they could mean your gut takes longer to return to normal.
Fijians go to the polls this week in only the second general election since a 2006 coup in which the current prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, seized power. He won an election in 2014.
Important research questions can almost always be answered better with a combination of methods – where both quantitive and qualitative data play a role.
This play is in fact two plays woven together, one being a tragic love story, the other a farce set in a mythical land.
And for the first time since the 1999 republic referendum, those opposed to a republic outnumber those in favour of it.
The energy needed to pull magnets apart comes from you, and you get it from the food you eat. And the plants or animals you eat get their energy from other plants and animals, or from the Sun. All energy comes from somewhere.
The marriage equality debate brought the rights of LGBT Australians to the fore - now we need to turn our attention to the ways they are still discriminated against.
Children in the early stages of learning to read should be given decodable books to practise and generalise their developing alphabetic skills.
Many foods that seem healthy contain various hidden fats, sugars and salts. If you’re trying to lose weight, it pays to know where they’re hiding.
The reality is that without human intervention, ecosystems will reshape themselves in response to climate change. The Queensland government has launched a climate plan for the state’s ecosystems.
Digital technologies put an abundance of data at our fingertips, but we must ensure questions of what should, and should not, be measured are answered before we use them in official statistics.