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How drug companies are playing hardball with Australia’s PBS
International drug companies are threatening to remove medicines from the market if Australia doesn’t offer them a better price. Here’s what’s at stake.
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‘Narcissist’ bosses are more likely to oppose work from home, studies show. But are they right?
A mix of work-from-home flexibility, with two to three days in the office, appears to be the sweet spot for looking after both employers’ and employees’ needs.
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New trial of AI-powered traffic lights will be a test for who gets priority on public roads
Australia’s first AI traffic-light trial could cut delays. It also raises hard questions about fairness, safety and who gets priority on public roads.
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Why the latest blow to the HIV/AIDS response at the UN should have everyone sounding the alarm
If political agendas hijack the global HIV/AIDs response, it will devastate the 40 million people living with the disease worldwide, especially the most marginalized.
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NZ parties want to make rooftop solar more affordable. We found cost isn’t everything
Both major parties want to boost household solar. But new research suggests wider uptake also depends on policy certainty, design and long-term returns.
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Children’s cereals promise breakfast fun and nutrition, but are still high in sugar
Using government developed criteria for marketing to kids, none of the child-targeted cereals examined would be permitted to be advertised to children, and 96 per cent surpassed sugar thresholds.
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Rapidly thawing permafrost is acidifying streams across North America
Researchers found that some bodies of water have become highly acidic within only a few years.
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Canadians love outdoor play and land-based learning — but regulations get in the way
Reform needs to address liscencing regulation, curriculum frameworks, standards of practice for early childhood educators and post-secondary preparation.
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Burnout isn’t new — 18th-century farm records show workers describing the same exhaustion
The language of burnout turns up in agricultural records from more than 200 years ago, long before the term entered popular use.
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Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted a war he cannot win
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Two American service members are dead. Another is missing. Four more were medically evacuated after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck a US base in Jordan on Friday night. The American death toll in this war now stands at 16, with more than 430 wounded. And none of it needed to
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Shadows of past political violence shape the lives of young Africans for years – a study of nine countries
A child born into a community with a history of political unrest is at higher risk of abuse as they grow into a young adult.
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Where do the world’s biggest diamonds come from? Geology now has answers
Studying the mineral olivine in kimberlite sheds some light on diamond origins.