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Banked breast milk is a safe source of shared human milk, and can be a life-saver for very premature babies.
As Australia’s fastest growing economic sector, tourism is long overdue for a level of government investment which matches its contribution to economic growth and employment.
Brexit and Trump pave the way for more financial market uncertainty.
The Federal Court has narrowed the definition of what can be deemed “personal information” in any data stored about you.
Sport remains the most evocative public demonstration of difference between the sexes, so its importance to feminist politics cannot be neglected.
Information on hospital deaths hasn’t always been so hard to find. Back in the 1860s Melbourne’s one hospital published regular stats on the number of patients dying.
Mike Baird is the fifth New South Wales premier in ten years, and only one of them lost their job to an election. There’s little time, it seems, to learn and grow as a political leader.
2016 is the third consecutive hottest year on record. How can we adapt?
What challenges will Arthur Sinodinos face as he becomes the latest to take up the science portfolio?
New minister Arthur Sinodinos seems all for the innovation catch-cry but perhaps it’s time he dropped it.
The announcement of Chelsea Manning’s commutation raises questions regarding the future of other high-profile leakers, like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
It’s time we saw past the mental illness in people living with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to check their physical health too. Here’s why.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition features sumptuous images: from giant cuttlefish courting to a vertigo-inducing portrait of an orangutan taken with a GoPro camera.
If it is so easy to fix a nation’s economic ills – just run the printing presses round the clock – then why doesn’t everyone do it?
Australia needs stronger policy aimed at curbing air pollution, but the options currently on the table fall short. For now, we could all aim to drive less and turn off the engine when the car is idle.
Federal politicians and the public like the idea of abolishing the states. But consider the likely result: a more powerful Canberra, with regional governments amounting to glorified shire councils.
We humans are capable of vocalising many different words in a range of languages. But what is it that gives us a remakable and variable voice?
The search for MH370 has been officially suspended without having found the plane. Where could MH370 be? Was the search in vain?
Lower completion rates for rural and remote universities are not necessarily a reflection on the quality of the educational experience they provide, but reflect the demographics of their students.
From My Island Home to Treaty, Indigenous musical luminaries gathered in Sydney on Tuesday to sing classic songs marking the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 referendum.
According to the latest Oxfam report, the richest eight people in the world are as wealthy as the bottom 50% of the world’s population. But let’s scrutinise these numbers a bit more.
Sussan Ley launched a series of major reviews of health spending programs. The proposals from these reviews are now on the table, and Greg Hunt will have a series of difficult tasks in implementation.
The relationship between commercialised sport and junior sport has largely been left to the periphery of Australian sporting analyses.
The education minister says that under Labor there were child care price spikes of up to 14% over a 12 month period, but under the Coalition those have fallen to “around 6% on average”. Is that right?