Kate Spade has been found dead in New York, age 55. Her handbags, first released in the early-1990s, introduced young professional women to affordable luxury.
Paramedics have higher rates of mental health problems than other emergency services workers.
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Paramedics face traumatic situations every day. They need policies to ensure support is provided in the immediate aftermath of trauma, and early access to mental health care.
Lifeguards and volunteers run across an ash covered slope after the June 3 eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala.
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Important points about volcanoes: location matters, explosiveness can be predicted to an extent, and fast-moving flows of volcanic materials (known as pyroclastic flows) are deadly.
Planning and design for healthy, liveable communities in the Australian tropics can involve quite different considerations from those that apply down south.
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There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all plan for sustainable, healthy urban living. Urban diaries help identify what works – and doesn’t work – for tropical cities like Cairns or Townsville.
US leaders have lashed out at China, but would likely be unwilling to start a war in the South China Sea.
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China has taken an incremental approach to cementing its control over the disputed waters, making the US and its allies powerless to stop it.
With strong female leads such as Rey, Star Wars merchandise has tended to be sold in its own ‘destination’ section of stores rather than gendered toy aisles.
Ken dolls with a ‘man bun’. Female superhero action figures. At long last, the gendered distinctions of the pink and blue toy aisles are starting to break down.
The growing global market in cyber crime is projected to hit US$6 trillion by 2021.
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Cyber deterrence is based on outdated ideas developed during the Cold War, but with cyber crime projected to hit US$6 trillion by 2021, cyber security requires new approaches.
You may need to pop your ears by yawning when you go up in a plane.
Listen up. Today we’re hearing all about why your ears pop when you go up, up, up and away.
In short, less advantaged students require significant additional supports, well beyond acknowledging their diverse pathways for entry into a degree program.
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From 2020, ANU will require students to meet co-curricular requirements alongside ATAR. This significant policy shift is meant to improve equity of access, but won’t change much.
Argentina is just one of a handful of crisis-stricken nations asking the International Monetary Fund for help.
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Some US$4.6 trillion has been made available to stave off financial crises across the world. The problem is that much of this funding is now spoken for, and the list of stricken nations is growing.
The protection of the flu vaccine is minimal, and may not be worth it.
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Australia’s willingness to include Huawei and ZTE in its 5G mobile infrastructure should be based on a rational analysis of risks. We take a look at current and past court cases brought against them.
Bill Shorten and the ALP will need to work hard to win July byelections in Longman and Braddon.
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Rather than solving any problems, sex bots could be empowerment tools for those who sexually offend against women and children. But more evidence is needed to know for sure.
It’s not easy to tell, but about a quarter of Airbnb properties in Sydney are essentially commercial letting operations.
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One problem with Airbnb is that it isn’t transparent about how many properties are truly ‘shared’ and how many are just part of a letting business. Regulators need to know that to manage the impacts.
Melita Jurisic as the mother who confines her four daughters to their house for eight weeks of mourning.
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At least half the food eaten by the first Australians came from plants. And in terms of medicines, many different parts of plants were used.
Happy and Holy: Barry Otto as Tockey, Ruth Cracknell as Cecilia McManus, Graham Rowe as Denny, Ron Hadrick as O'Halloran in a 1982 production by the Sydney Theatre Company.
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Just when we thought the dual citizenship debacle was coming to an end, there may be another sting in our Constitution’s tail.
Businesses are weighing up the costs of queuing and using innovative ways to do away with queues, or at least make the perceptions of waiting less painful.
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Same person or different person? Most people are extremely good at recognising faces of people they know well, but not so much strangers. See how well you perform on the tests in this story.
Indigenous Australians have a strong relationship with the natural world.
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Traditional Aboriginal healers are recognised as having special facilities for healing in childhood and are encouraged to develop their skills. They are often taught by their grandparents.
Students at Monash University are provided integrated medical and surgical teaching in year three of the new curriculum.
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