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Flu: it's not just about you
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Coming into winter you’re probably wondering if you should get the flu vaccine to avoid a few days off sick. But this isn’t actually the worst outcome you should be trying to avoid. It’s spreading it to more vulnerable people who would suffer a lot more than a few days of ill health if they caught it off you. Allen Cheng and Kristine Macartney tell us some things we probably didn’t know about the flu vaccine.
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While the flu vaccine cuts your chance of coming down with influenza, that’s not the whole story.
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Allen Cheng, Monash University; Kristine Macartney, University of Sydney
As we head towards flu season, many people are wondering if it's worth getting vaccinated against influenza and if so, when. Here's what you need to know.
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Politics + Society
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David Peetz, Griffith University; Georgina Murray, Griffith University
Today the world is dominated by 30 financial corporations that hold more than half the shareholdings of its corporate giants. And they follow the logic of finance capital – the logic of money.
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Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University
Today’s release of data from the 2016 Census allows us to identify some of Australians' more common characteristics, how they vary across states and territories, and how they are changing over time.
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Business + Economy
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Libby Sander
While companies are committing to hot-desking and activity-based work, research is finding negative outcomes for workers.
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Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne
The latest Census shows Australians spend between five and 14 hours a week on unpaid domestic work, but it's women who suffer the most from this.
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Arts + Culture
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Mathew Turner, Deakin University
The new film Denial chronicles Holocaust denier David Irving's 2000 legal action against US historian Deborah Lipstadt.
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Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney
ABC TV's Rage has so far weathered the storm of digital disruption to remain an important, and nostalgic, part of Australia's music industry.
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Environment + Energy
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Justin Marshall, The University of Queensland; Chris Roelfsema, The University of Queensland; Diana Kleine, The University of Queensland
As the Great Barrier Reef suffers a second wave of mass bleaching, there is a way to get involved.
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Science + Technology
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Karl Glazebrook, Swinburne University of Technology
The recipe book for galaxy formation may need to be rewritten after the discovery of a massive galaxy that stopped making new stars early in the Universe's history.
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Dino Pisaniello, University of Adelaide
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact Finding Team has not yet revealed the nature of the chemicals used in Khan Sheikhoun.
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David Glance, University of Western Australia
ABS figures show that Australia's appetite for faster broadband is growing apace.
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Cities
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Nick Patorniti, University of the Sunshine Coast; Nicholas Stevens, University of the Sunshine Coast
Ambience is a result of a whole range of processes and physical objects. We can use a systems approach to examine and describe what needs to be done to achieve such a subjective quality in a street.
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Health + Medicine
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Katie Hirono, UNSW; Katherine Smith, University of Edinburgh
Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows.
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