‘Chook farms ruin lives!’. Australians consume a lot of cheap chicken, but not all of them appreciate an intensive chicken factory as a neighbour.
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As consumption has soared and prices have fallen, the realities of industrial chicken farming often clash with the values of people who live on the urban fringes where broiler farms are sited.
We need to do more to ensure teaching is an attractive profession.
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Low pay and status are the main factors turning potentially good teachers away from teaching. We need to work on making teaching an attractive profession.
GPs are finding the compensation process for work related mental health claims onerous and in some cases bad for their patient’s health, a study has found.
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Sal Clark, Swinburne University of Technology and Carly Copolov, Swinburne University of Technology
A school set up by asylum seekers and refugees in the West Java town Cisarua, Indonesia, is a community-led initiative that Australian and Indonesian governments should model and support.
Indonesia must carefully consider the cost and benefits of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is eyeing to join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, already signed by a dozen countries, including Australia.
A mob burnt down a compound of a religious cult in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation and Sasha Petrova, The Conversation
This body map brings together evidence on proven cancer causes. Using credible, scientific sources it answers questions about whether alcohol, red meat or sun exposure increase your cancer risk.
Relative risk is your risk compared to that of someone else.
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Better primary care could have prevented more than a quarter-of-a-million hospital admissions for health problems such as diabetes each year.
A third generation of Online Marketplaces that combine workflow and networks are changing the underlying economics of many industries.
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With internal party ructions and an unco-operative Senate to manage, Malcolm Turnbull needs a convincing election win to be able to govern as he wants to.
Nice day for the beach. In fact there have been rather a lot of those in Sydney lately.
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Sydney is in the process of smashing the record for the longest run of days above 26°C. Weather, El Nino and climate change are all playing their part.
Renewables could be a better answer to India’s power problems.
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Can software really be considered the “driver” of an autonomous vehicle? This is one question that needs to be resolved before driveless cars can hit the roads.
Australia has a lesson to learn from Germany when it comes to reconciling with a shameful past. Artists are taking the lead in ‘When silence falls’, a formidable exhibition.
It has been a week of political contests, both within party lines and across them. Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan take a look at the bitter rivalry between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott.
Australian Christian Lobby’s Lyle Shelton, speaking on Q&A.
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The Australian Christian Lobby’s Lyle Shelton said he was concerned about body modification, gender reassignment surgery and future suicide risk. We check the research.
The hidden costs of affordable housing in the outer suburbs include poorer access to services and long hours of commuting.
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Australian cities should be made to work for all inhabitants. This involves evenly spreading the disadvantages of industrial and commercial activities as well as the advantages of good access to services.
There is a different narrative to be had around China’s change to its banks’ required reserve ratios.
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This week China compelled its banks to lend more money, a move interpreted as propping up its currency. But was it?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is calling for innovation to improve the lives of Indigenous people, but must beware of causing instability with new policies that dismiss everything before them.
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Across Indigenous Australia, innovation is occurring locally, under the radar of government policies and support. We can look to this innovation and stop fixating on finding the elusive policy solution.
It’s unclear just how many infants are undergoing these procedures.
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Breastfed infants diagnosed with “tongue tie” are being unnecessarily treated with deep laser or scissors cuts under both their tongue and upper lip in the first weeks and months of life.
A tasty morsel: Victorian Opera’s Banquet of Secrets
Jeff Busby