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Editor's note
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Let’s put a trite saying to rest: you may have tripped over your words once or twice, but you’ve never been tongue-tied.
Tongue-tying is the practice of winding a strap around a horse’s tongue and tying it to the lower jaw. It’s widespread in Australian horse racing and is thought to prevent breathing issues and increase the rider’s control.
But a recent ban in Germany raises the question, does it help or harm horses? Two researchers explain how tongue-ties work and ask if they’re something Australia should allow.
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Madeleine De Gabriele
Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment
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Top story
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Tongue-ties are used to tie horses’ tongues to their lower jaw.
Horses & People Magazine
Samantha Franklin, University of Adelaide; Paul McGreevy, University of Sydney
Tongue-ties are used in Australian horse racing but are banned in most other horse sports.
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Arts + Culture
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Jason Gibson, Deakin University; Helen Gardner, Deakin University; Stephen Morey, La Trobe University
Ngár-go (Fitzroy), Quo-yung (Richmond), Yálla-birr-ang (Collingwood), and Bulleke-bek (Brunswick), are just some of the Woiwurrung names uncovered in the notebooks of a 19th century anthropologist.
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Science + Technology
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Greg Austin, UNSW
Universities are uniquely placed to ensure that those who manage security of networks and data work closely with those who research and study the same problem.
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Dan Crimston, The University of Queensland
Of course we should have sympathy for the soccer team trapped in the cave. We should extend similar compassion to those caught up in long-term crises that are harder to tackle.
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Janie Hoormann, The University of Queensland
The pull created by a black hole is so strong that if you get too close to one – even if you are travelling away from it at the fastest speed it is possible to go – you will never be able escape.
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Politics + Society
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Mark Triffitt, University of Melbourne
Public trust in government is declining in democracies around the world, particularly among young people. Democratic reform is needed to re-engage disaffected citizens.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
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Tim Lindsey, University of Melbourne
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Education
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Mandie Shean, Edith Cowan University
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Rachel Wilson, University of Sydney; Susan McGrath-Champ, University of Sydney
Public school teachers are working longer hours, which they believe will have a negative impact on their ability to teach students.
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Health + Medicine
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Megan Lee, Southern Cross University
Being a mindful eater is about ending your obsession with food and weight loss and listening to your body.
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Michelle Rodrigues, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
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Business + Economy
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Hugh Batrouney, Grattan Institute
Billions of taxpayer dollars are committed before all the evidence for, and against, infrastructure projects is in. As well as missing business cases, basic rules of economic modelling are broken.
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Cities
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Aaron Magro, University of Melbourne
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FactCheck
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Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University
In addition to the jobs claim, Liberal MP Sarah Henderson said 65,000 new businesses had started in the last year, compared to the closure of 61,000 businesses in Labor's last year. Is that right?
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