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Camel beauty pageants are multi-million-dollar events on the Arabian Peninsula.
We read about and watch other people moving to the coast or country and, in doing so, sometimes we’re persuaded to join the seachangers and treechangers ourselves.
Doctors have long acknowledged heart attacks are more likely to occur in cold weather. But now a major study has confirmed it.
The participants who chose more organically grown foods over 4.5 years had slightly lower rates of cancer. But it doesn’t necessarily mean one thing caused the other.
Being outside helps kids learn. Here are some ways to get them to spend more time in nature.
The early suffragists would be rolling in their graves to know that women joining the ranks of parliamentarians barely changed their male colleagues’ outlook and demeanour at all.
New research shows shallow, near-land seas similar to Bass Strait were critical in the early days of fish evolution. These are the waters we need to protect now to ensure ongoing biodiversity.
Former prime minister Paul Keating wants to divert an extra 2-3% of our salaries to ‘longevity insurance’. It’s what the pension was meant to be for.
We should ignore out-of-date and failed theories and test what full employment really means in 2018.
Leonard Cohen’s final (posthumous) book was released in Australia this week. Another new book sheds light on Cohen’s life on Hydra in the 1960s and the relationships he forged with Antipodeans seeking liberation there.
Scott Morrison, unless his prayers for a political miracle are answered, will go down as the fireman who arrived late armed only with leaky buckets to confront a building ablaze and collapsing.
The biggest system failure in aged care is staffing. We don’t need to wait until the royal commission is over to fix it – this can be done now.
Nobel Prizewinning health researcher Peter Doherty reflects on the challenge of delivering a healthy climate for the world. From hydrogen power to wooden skyscrapers, the options are endless, but all require leadership.
You could take the bus to work, or eat less meat. But how do you know if your efforts are making a difference? A new approach aims to break global environmental budgets down into digestible chunks.
Having a gender identity that does not match one’s sex on a birth certificate can cause confusion and embarrassment and potentially lead to discrimination.
A new study provides fascinating data on how people prioritise who to save in hypothetical driverless car crashes. But it takes more than just numbers to really create ethical machines.
If the food movement’s goal is to reclaim a corporatised food system by ‘rebuilding the public sphere from the ground up’, what does this look like?
Banks have viewed their codes of conduct as non-binding statements of comfort. They need to enforce them under pain of legal penalty.
Schiff persuaded his near-capacity audience to remain completely silent until the very end of each half of the program – a major coup.
The question of whether a person can “become” Aboriginal after discovering ancestry through a DNA test is more complicated in Australia.
With the often prohibitive costs of dental treatment in Australia, travelling overseas to have dental work done is increasingly common. But it’s important to exercise caution.
Australians already enjoy a relatively high level of religious freedom. However, discrimination and vilification on the basis of people’s faith still exists.
Lifting the standards of rural and remote students to the those of urban students could boost the economy by 3.3%
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