21 May Science & Health The question of conscientious objection in the voluntary assisted dying debate 21/05/2022 By Ronli Sifris 0 comments Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) has been legal in countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands for more than a decade. In Austr...Continue reading
07 May Science & Health Mapping climate policy 08/05/2022 By Kathryn Davidson 0 comments As the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions becomes increasingly urgent, governments of all levels, as well as private businesses and n...Continue reading
02 May Science & Health Pill testing really does reduce the risk of harm for drug users 02/05/2022 By David Caldicott 0 comments 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 ...Continue reading
29 Apr Science & Health Has Covid destroyed our trust in experts? 29/04/2022 By Carrick Ryan 0 comments 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...Continue reading
25 Apr Science & Health Religious chaplaincy is failing the Defence Force 09/05/2022 By Phillip Hoglin 0 comments 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...Continue reading
02 Apr Science & Health Scientists, working together, can prevent future pandemics 02/04/2022 By Grace Wangge 0 comments Costly delays in reporting and responding helped COVID-19 spread. But the failures that saw it become a pandemic were of a different ki...Continue reading
30 Mar Science & Health Assisted dying and palliative care: An argument for ‘chewing gum’ 30/03/2022 By Richard Lugg 1 comment In his classic book Straight and Crooked Thinking – now in its fifth edition (2011) – Robert H. Thouless describes many dishonest debat...Continue reading
13 Mar Science & Health Future-proofing research 13/03/2022 By Christobel Saunders 0 comments The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by bringing ...Continue reading
11 Mar Science & Health It’s time to decriminalise personal drug use 11/03/2022 By Dan Lubman 0 comments The global ‘war on drugs’ is one of the single-most catastrophic public policy failures in history. Now one Victorian MP has put forwar...Continue reading
09 Mar Science & Health Population growth from Genesis to Revelations 09/03/2022 By Robyn Friend 0 comments 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...Continue reading