Good news! Three coffees a day may help your heart stay regular
Recent Australian research finds drinking a moderate amount of coffee can help protect people from developing irregular heart beats, or arrhythmia The researchers say there [...]
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Syrian football fans send a special message to Trump after air strike
The fans from the Syrian Tishreen Football Club sent US President a special message after the weekend airstrike on Syria. At a weekend game, the fans unfolded a banner [...]
Australia: 20% of childhood asthma due to gas stoves and damp houses
A recent study by researchers at the University of Queensland has found that 20% of childhood asthma in Australia is associated with gas stoves and damp houses. The [...]
‘Renewable energy breeding’ can stop Australia blowing the carbon budget – if we’re quick
Mark Diesendorf, UNSW Moving to a future powered mainly by renewable energy will be crucial if we are to stay within the global warming limits set out by the Paris Agreement. [...]
Further strikes on Syria unlikely – but Trump is always the wild card
Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University A head-spinning series of events in the past few weeks have taken us from the United States pulling out of Syria, to analysts [...]
Can the Liberal Party hold its ‘broad church’ of liberals and conservatives together?
John Howard, pictured here with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, is fond of describing the Liberal Party as a “broad church”. But that breadth has led to increasing [...]
Indigenous voices are speaking loudly on social media but racism endures
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University and Ryan Frazer, Macquarie University Social media are a vital resource for Indigenous [...]
Why you stink at fact-checking
We don’t automatically question information we read or hear. Gaelfphoto/Shutterstock.com Lisa Fazio, Vanderbilt University Here’s a quick quiz for you: In the biblical [...]
North Korea: North Korean Athletes To Go To Tokyo 2020
North Korean President Kim Jong-un has met with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in Pyongyang regarding the North’s future participation in the [...]
Unions have a history of merging – that’s why the new ‘super union’ makes sense
Peter Holland, Monash University and Marjorie Jerrard, Monash University Australian trade unions have always changed and merged to reflect the shifting nature of work and [...]
