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More than one in seven Australian households is in a state of housing need, new research estimates. Some are priced out of the market and others pay much more for rent than they can afford – and the number in housing need is forecast to rise to 1.7 million by 2025.
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Cities
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Around one in seven Australia households either cannot get into housing at market rates or are struggling to pay the rent.
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Steven Rowley, Curtin University; Chris Leishman, University of Adelaide
One in seven Australian households is in a state of housing need. A shortfall in social housing supply means some are locked out of the market and others pay much more for rent than they can afford.
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Night-time lighting – seen here in Chongqing, China – is one of many aspects of city living that can make us more stressed.
Jason Byrne
Jason Byrne, Griffith University
Research shows planners and built environment professionals have surprisingly poor knowledge about how cities might harm mental health. The good news is that simple steps can make a big difference.
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Politics + Society
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The leaked transcript of the phone call between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull highlights the failure of Australia’s deal with the US to take refugees.
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Asher Hirsch, Monash University
Transcripts of a conversation between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull reveal Australia's refugee swap deal with the US may come to nothing.
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Both James Sutherland and Alistair Nicholson faced criticism for their handling of cricket’s pay dispute.
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Jack Anderson, University of Melbourne
Lack of trust between Australia's cricketers and the game's governing body delayed negotiations in their protracted pay dispute. This relationship will need to be rebuilt in the coming months.
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Health + Medicine
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Primary school-aged boys and girls can play in mixed teams until they reach high school, our research suggests.
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Marnee McKay, University of Sydney; Joshua Burns, University of Sydney
Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, our research shows.
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People have diagnosed Donald Trump with all sorts of disorders — but is this ethical?
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Chris Rudge, University of Sydney
There's a fierce debate about whether it's ethical for mental health professionals to diagnose politicians they haven't personally examined.
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Multimedia
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Tiernan Brady, a leader of the successful 'Yes' campaign on same-sex marriage in Ireland, has been working with activists in Australia to get marriage equality over the line.
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HILDA data shows we are less likely to think that children are negatively impacted by a mother returning to work.
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Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; Jenni Henderson, The Conversation
A snapshot of what HILDA survey results have to say about families, working mums and childcare.
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Education
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The ability to write quickly and effortlessly allows children to focus on translating ideas into writing.
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Anabela Malpique, Murdoch University; Deborah Pino-Pasternak, Murdoch University
Writing is a fundamental outcome indicator of learning across subjects and grades. The latest NAPLAN results tell us we need to do more to empower children with these skills.
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The Universities Australia action plan was released on Tuesday.
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Katelin Morris, The Conversation
Universities have responded to the release of the Australian Human Rights Commission report into sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus with a ten-point plan.
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Science + Technology
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Just because we can edit genes in human embryos, should we?
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Hannah Brown, University of Adelaide
A world first study shows CRISPR can remove a target gene from early stage human embryos. But with the advance in science come weighty ethical dilemmas.
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Climb on board - it won’t take a minute.
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Alice Mason, University of Western Australia
Whether booking in a colonoscopy or choosing where to buy coffee, your memory and ability to visualise future scenarios shape life's most important decisions.
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Business + Economy
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Since 2001, the proportion of full-time workers who believe they will not be with their current employer has been stable at about 7.5%; and the rate for part-time workers has decreased from 15.5 to 12.6%.
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Jeff Borland, University of Melbourne
Data show that people don't feel more insecure in their jobs now. In fact, that feeling is decreasing.
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Wealth in Australia is much more unequally distributed than income.
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Peter Whiteford, Australian National University
The two major sources of data show conflicting trends on income inequality.
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Arts + Culture
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The Greeks defend their ships from the Trojans in Alfred Churchill’s Story of the Iliad, 1911.
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Chris Mackie, La Trobe University
A central idea in the Iliad - a poetic work focused on the war for Troy - is the inevitability of death. The poem held a special place in antiquity, and has resonated in the millennia since.
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An aerial shot of discarded life jackets on the Greek island of Lesvos.
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Cameron Muir, University of Sydney
In late 2015, 200,000 refugees a month were arriving on the Greek island of Lesvos. Tasos Markou went there to photograph their plight - and ended up joining the locals to help the new arrivals.
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Environment + Energy
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Free-range egg producers trade heavily on their implied ethical and nutritional value. But what are you really getting?
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Heather Bray, University of Adelaide
After Snowdale Holdings was penalised A$1 million for lying about their eggs being free-range, here are some tips on getting what you pay for in the supermarket.
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The stereotype of the conventionally attractive female weather reporter is alive and well on Australian television.
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Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University
The weather segment at the end of news bulletins has stuck to a familiar format for more than 50 years. But the question of who should actually present the weather has been in a constant state of flux.
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