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Fact: in 2013, four out of five global deaths resulted from an NCD. Fact: the true face of the global epidemic of NCDs is not an older, richer, American male - but likely to be under 70, living in pov ...

Originally, to be honourable meant very different things for men and for women. Simon Ideas about personal honour are a major key to understanding violence. This is so today, when “honour” is often re ...

Could a work of fiction constitute a truth commission in its own right? NCinDC As we’ve marked the centenary of the first world war in 2014, the great poets of that conflict – Wilfred Owen, Siegfried ...

A US Marine covers a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with the US flag in Baghdad’s al-Fardous square in April 2003, before the statue was toppled. EPA PHOTO AFPI/RAMZI HAIDAR For at least a d ...

Flickr/d e x t e r d, CC BY As the United Nations warns of the dire consequences of global warming, the commitment of the current Australian government to the reality of climate change remains unclear ...

Children change and develop, but labels tend to stick. Boy image from www.shutterstock.com “ADHD”, “disruptive”, “behavioural difficulties”: labels like these are applied daily to our children. But th ...

Moving government services online assumes everyone is plugged into the internet. But who’s left out? Flickr/Patrick Finnegan, CC BY The ease of buying shoes or managing our banking over a mobile phone ...

Teachers and parents can help identify signs of mental ill health and connect adolescents with appropriate professional help. Shutterstock Mental disorders are debilitating and often emerge in adolesc ...

Feral cats are a triple threat to our wildlife through predation, competition and diseases such as toxoplasmosis. Eddie Van 3000/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Feral cats are a huge threat to our native ...

With the world watching, Australia’s FTA with China is likely to be more about diplomacy than economics. Parker Song/EPA/AAP Recent public comments of senior Australian government ministers suggest th ...