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21 May

The question of conscientious objection in the voluntary assisted dying debate

21/05/2022
By 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...

07 May

Science & Health

Mapping climate policy

As the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions becomes increasingly urgent, governments of all levels, as well as private businesses and n...

02 May

Science & Health

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

02/05/2022
By 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 ...

29 Apr

Science & Health

Has Covid destroyed our trust in experts?

29/04/2022
By 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...

25 Apr

Science & Health

Religious chaplaincy is failing the Defence Force

09/05/2022
By 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...

02 Apr

Science & Health

Scientists, working together, can prevent future pandemics

02/04/2022
By 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...

30 Mar

Science & Health

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

30/03/2022
By 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...

13 Mar

Science & Health

Future-proofing research

The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by bringing ...

11 Mar

Science & Health

It’s time to decriminalise personal drug use

11/03/2022
By 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...

09 Mar

Science & Health

Population growth from Genesis to Revelations

09/03/2022
By 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...