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Sciences & Technology | Analysis

Your dog is talking to you, but you need to learn how to listen

People talk to their dogs a lot – but what many may not realise is dogs are communicating back, just not in our language

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Politics & Society | Opinion

‘What version of the past is promoted and what’s obscured?’

As the Yoorrook Walk for Truth travels through western Victoria, we reflect on the colonial pastoralists from that area who dispossessed Indigenous people while enriching our university

Boy pushing a tyre past a graffitied wall

Politics & Society | Book extract

Remembering the BUMIDOM

A new book explores BUMIDOM, the controversial mass migration program from the Caribbean to France from 1963-1982, and the creative works keeping this memory alive

Health & Medicine | Opinion

‘My brother is one of the lucky ones. He survived a cardiac arrest.’

Environment | Research

Changing the architecture of death

Health & Medicine | Research

Cutting the diagnosis journey for children born with rare genetic diseases

Politics & Society | Analysis

Labor’s historic election victory continues to reshape Australian politics (and its opposition)

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In Pursuit of Knowledge

Explore ‘In Pursuit of Knowledge’, our series that brings together experts to examine and illuminate the critical issues of our time

Politics & Society

Research

What 174 years of bushfire records teach us about emergency management

Over the course of almost two centuries of settler fire history, a clear pattern has emerged – Victoria learns from fire

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Disabled Male Patient Sitting in the Wheelchair Getting Vaccinated at His Home by Female Doctor

Health & Medicine|Research

But I got my flu shot? Why the flu vaccine works for some and not others

Research has found out why some people aren’t immune to the flu even after they’ve had the vaccination

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Health & Medicine

Your cold house is bad for your mental health

New research finds that the poorest Australians in the worst health are living in the coldest homes during Australian winter and it’s putting their mental health at risk

Health & Medicine|Go Figure

Do you really get sick as soon as you go on holiday?

We all look forward to holidays. But does it ever seem that as soon as you take a break, you get sick?

Arts & Culture

Research

How much should parasitic gig companies contribute to city resources?

Every employee needs toilets and break facilities, but gig companies don’t provide these, leaving workers dependent on public amenities, creating a burden for them and the urban infrastructure

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