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A Word
Every year in May, the Federal Treasurer hands down the government’s budget to great fanfare and nit-picking. Health spending is always one of the big ticket items that receive much scrutiny – and every year the Australian Institute of Policy and Sci
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Associate Professor Michelle Jongenelis is a Principal Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne’s School of Psychological Sciences and Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change. She has expertise in health promotion, interven
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Regions Rising: The New Frontier
As Australia’s frontier was developed by its newest settlers, its prosperity grew, as did its standing in the modern world and, at Federation, two-thirds of the country’s people lived in the regions. Then in the 1950s, as technology evolved and socie
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Good Policy is Not a Zero-Sum Game: Minister Mark Butler
Now the current Minister for Health and Aged Care, he is responsible for one of the federal budget’s largest expenditures, regularly making decisions on issues that directly affect the wellbeing of all Australians. In his current and former portfolio
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Senator Anne Ruston
You’ve been in politics for over a decade. Were there any science or health issues you wanted to address when you first started? When I entered politics, health and aged care were certainly not policy areas that I came to with hands-on experience. I
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Not Quite Out of the Cold: Resurgence, Retreat, and Resurfacing of Psychedelic Research
The word, ‘psychedelics’, was coined by Humphrey Osmond in 1957, “connoting that they have a mind-manifesting capability, revealing useful or beneficial properties of the mind”.2 The 1950s and 1960 were a time of enormous scientific interest in psych
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Shortage or Surplus: Is it Worth Going to University?
The Report has been received favourably, even being described as a document that deserves bipartisan support.1 Yet despite a favourable reception, it is doubtful if its recommendations can be taken seriously. The problem for the Accord is not that it
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References
1. https://www.regionalaustralia.org.au/libraryviewer?ResourceID=10 2. https://www.regionalaustralia.org.au/libraryviewer?ResourceID=100 1. Nichols, D. E. (2016). ‘Psychedelics’, Pharmacological Reviews, 68:264–355, p.268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1124/p

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