The natural or “alternative” health community is often held up as being vaccine hesitant. Yet, the relationship between the natural health community and vaccination is complex. Stories such as the Adelaide naturopath recently disciplined for using a newspaper column to spread vaccine misinformation may make headlines. But other stories
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As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversations’s politics team. In this week’s episode, politics + society editor
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Australia’s inability to formulate effective climate policy is the result of voters continuing to elect maladroit political leaders. read now…
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Some of the most prominent think tanks on defence and foreign policy are receiving funds from companies that rely on war and threats of war. read now…
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Today in Side View: assassination and electoral politics; CCS sucks, literally and figuratively; our changing sonic world; and decoding shadows. The post Side View: The danger of being an MP
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Few of us who have survived the last year aren’t grateful for technology. Zoom, email, connected workplaces and solid internet connections at home have made it possible to work, shop, study and carry on our lives in a way that wouldn’t have been possible had the pandemic hit, say, 20
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The WigglesWhen Emma Watkins took over as “The Yellow Wiggle” in 2012 there were huge headlines. Her casting was a seismic shift for those who grew up loving her male predecessors (Greg Page, and then briefly Sam Moran), but also a challenge to the status quo. As Forbes
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Our children are growing up in a volatile climate. It’s already damaging their health, wealth and well-being. Universities can be leaders in helping young people gain the knowledge they need to navigate this uncertain future. Curious Climate Schools, a project that connects young people directly with experts who can answer
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University of Auckland Department of Conservation, Author providedThe world’s rarest marine dolphin, Māui, is found only along the west coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on our surveys over the last two summers, during which we collected small tissue samples for DNA analysis,
read now Wounded Country is a provocative record of voices from the frontline of the land and water grab of the past two centuries, writes Tracey Carpenter.
read now Hundreds of fascists forced their way into the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) headquarters in Rome on October 9, reports Dave Kellaway.
read now Anthony Albanese has referred Labor MP Anthony Byrne to the finance department to investigate his employment of taxpayer-funded staff who didn’t turn up to his office. Albanese said he had first spoken to Byrne about whether he would refer himself to the department over the staff, who were taken on
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ShutterstockNature rarely recognises national borders. Many Australian birds, for example, are annual visitors, splitting their time between Southeast Asia, Russia, and Pacific Islands. Yet, most efforts to protect ecological processes and habitats are designed and implemented by individual nations. Not only are these traditional approaches to conservation
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Former Olympic champion Jo Clark OAM has been appointed General Manager at global software company BrainStorm Software. Clark was a member of the gold medal winning Australian water polo team at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. After her sporting career, Clark diversified into the marketing and events
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A senior NSW bureaucrat tells the NSW ICAC ‘it wasn’t necessarily a good use of funds’. The post Has Wagga ever staged the Olympics? No. So why did it need
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Content notification: This article discusses domestic abuse and gendered violence. Tender is a thoughtful podcast series about what happens when women leave abusive relationships. Each season follows one woman’s story as she slowly—but surely—gets to know herself again. Chronicling the life of domestic violence awareness advocate, mother and
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To achieve post-pandemic recovery, the NSW Government is advising an immigration surge that would be disastrous for the environment. read now…
read now A well attended online forum shows the growing community concern against plans for a new gas terminal project in Corio Bay. Sue Bull reports.
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In our series about aged care, we’ve been exploring some different and important ways of thinking about growing older and potential care and support needs, how we need to start normalising our conversations about it, and how women shouldn’t need to carry the full burden. If it’s
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Dominic Perrottet has made headway on some issues that will appeal to female voters, but his stance on abortion and same-sex marriage will not. The post Planned Perrottethood: how
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Viewers are really over the boring formats of SAS Australia: Hell Week and Love Island Australia. You listening, programmers? The post These turkeys won’t make it to Christmas appeared
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The LNP senator doesn’t need Australians to love him — in fact, he’s counting on the opposite. The post Matt Canavan’s mining cosplay and Twitter trolling are setting him up
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From getting the Nats onside to getting needles out of strawberries, the PM doesn’t shy away from invoking national security to push a message — or deter attention. The post
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Content warning: This article contains details of domestic violence and murder. Horror and heartbreak continues to spread around the world after news of Olympic runner Agnes Tirop’s murder in her home last Wednesday in Iten, Kenya. On Thursday, police arrested her husband, Ibrahim Kipkemoi Rotich, in the
read now The NSW government will spend nearly $500 million to help tackle domestic and family violence and establish extra women’s refuges across the state. The funding package, announced on Tuesday, is the single biggest investment in domestic and family violence in the state’s history. The investment includes $426.6
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Colin Powell was once a potential moderate Republican president. But his path was opposite to the one since taken by the Republican Party. The post A historical road not taken:
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We can’t expect Ted Cruz to have a real idea about what’s going on in ‘Texas of the Pacific’ Australia, but maybe he should do a little research. Plus more
read now Yesterday I wrote about the gall of Barnaby Joyce saying he won’t be held “hostage” by the Liberal party pushing for Australia to commit to more ambitious targets on addressing climate change. I shared disgust at Joyce and others in the Nationals declaring they need more time
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As the Biden administration and a new generation of US policymakers learn the hard lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, the words of the former secretary of state ring true: ‘you
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Politicians have far too much discretion in their use of taxpayers’ dollars, and that makes the system ripe for abuse. The post No shame, no accountability — Victorian Labor’s
read now A new report says the public service has reached ‘dangerously low levels’ of policy capability and recommend a swift and purposeful rebuild. The post Public sector reform could make Australia more resilient, report says appeared first on The Mandarin.
read now A coalition of groups are organising to protect parklands in Greater Sydney that are under threat from a new bill that aims to privatise land and buildings. Susan Price reports.
read now Victoria’s auditor-general has criticised the department of environment, land, water and planning (DELWP) for its failure to protect the state’s threatened species. The post Department use of old data contributing to Victoria’s biodiversity decline appeared first on The Mandarin.
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Climate change’s promise of death and destruction is violence, so why shouldn’t its victims be violent in self-defence? The post Violent anti-vaxxers are wrong. But can their tactics hold any
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Yamatji and Noongar woman Dorinda Cox has become the first Aboriginal woman to represent Western Australia in the federal senate. Cox was sworn in to the senate on Monday, after winning the Greens’ preselection to replace retired senator, Rachel Siewert. Cox’s entrance to the parliament takes the
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read now The Hunter Asylum Seeker Advocacy is commemorating those who drowned in the SIEV-X disaster, reports Dr Niko Leka.
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YWCA Australia has just kicked off Feminist Book Week this week, celebrating feminist authors and aiming to nurture young and diverse voices until the 22nd October. The week aims to start conversations on diversity and highlight the importance of intersectional voices in “to-read lists”. Event organiser
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For someone said to be one of the country’s best retail politicians, Joyce and his National Party have few achievements to brag about. The post Just what is the point
read now As global travel returns, government scientists have found a way to test the wastewater of flights for COVID-19. The post CSIRO study finds way to detect COVID-19 early from flights appeared first on The Mandarin.
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