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21 May
Science & Health

The question of conscientious objection in the voluntary assisted dying debate

  • 21/05/2022
  • By author-avatar Ronli Sifris
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Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) has been legal in countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands for more than a decade.  In Austr...

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07 May
Science & Health

Mapping climate policy

  • 08/05/2022
  • By author-avatar Kathryn Davidson
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As the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions becomes increasingly urgent, governments of all levels, as well as private businesses and n...

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02 May
Science & Health

Pill testing really does reduce the risk of harm for drug users

  • 02/05/2022
  • By author-avatar David Caldicott
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Days out from the event, festival goers for Canberra’s Groovin the Moo festival were told the event would no longer be offering a free ...

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29 Apr
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Has Covid destroyed our trust in experts?

  • 29/04/2022
  • By author-avatar Carrick Ryan
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It started with a tweet. On 14 January 2020, as the world waited anxiously for news about the emerging virus in Wuhan, the World Health...

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25 Apr
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Religious chaplaincy is failing the Defence Force

  • 09/05/2022
  • By author-avatar Phillip Hoglin
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While the nation takes stock to remember our Anzacs this week, we need to take a moment to think about how we can better support the cu...

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02 Apr
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Scientists, working together, can prevent future pandemics

  • 02/04/2022
  • By author-avatar Grace Wangge
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Costly delays in reporting and responding helped COVID-19 spread. But the failures that saw it become a pandemic were of a different ki...

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30 Mar
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Assisted dying and palliative care: An argument for ‘chewing gum’

  • 30/03/2022
  • By author-avatar Richard Lugg
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In his classic book Straight and Crooked Thinking – now in its fifth edition (2011) – Robert H. Thouless describes many dishonest debat...

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13 Mar
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Future-proofing research

  • 13/03/2022
  • By author-avatar Christobel Saunders
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The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by bringing ...

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11 Mar
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It’s time to decriminalise personal drug use

  • 11/03/2022
  • By author-avatar Dan Lubman
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The global ‘war on drugs’ is one of the single-most catastrophic public policy failures in history. Now one Victorian MP has put forwar...

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09 Mar
Science & Health

Population growth from Genesis to Revelations

  • 09/03/2022
  • By author-avatar Robyn Friend
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The Book of Genesis is a romantic fiction written by a woman. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea, for surely any creat...

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