Articles tagged ‘Health’.
Dear CI The decision by the Mount Alexander Shire Council to slug the CWA with hall hire fees in excess of $2,500 per annum is the most stunning evi...
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A new study has looked into how our psychology concerning war and conflict may have been shaped by our evolutionary past. Following a review of curren...
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By Andrew McKenna In Australia we are suffering from a massive failure of public policy. The decision made today at the VCGR is a symptom of a deep il...
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In a shock decision announced this afternoon, the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation has ruled in favour of a proposal to treble the number ...
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Swinburne PhD candidate Matthew Pase is investigating whether dietary supplements can help counter the slowing of brain function with age. In the most...
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Dear CI, I read with interest some of the commentary on the Aquatic Centre/Western Oval debate. I keep puzzling over several issues, one of which was ...
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This week’s pay decision affecting thousands of Australians working in the community sector is a long-awaited and hard fought for recognition of the...
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A new study shows the production of sperm is more biologically taxing than previously thought, and expending energy on it has significant health impli...
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam said yesterday that the Australian Defence Force posture review – an inquiry into Australian defence...
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The Government must end uranium sales to Russia if it is serious about stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Australian Greens said on Fri...
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The Federal Government could save $2.3 billion in the 2012-13 Budget by scrapping wasteful and inefficient tax breaks to the oil and gas sector and ot...
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Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden When I was around 16 years old I was sitting in the back of my parents’ car as we drove along on our way t...
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An open letter to the Mayor and Councillors of Macedon Ranges Shire Council Dear Councillors, Please allow me the opportunity to put forward some obse...
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Residents of America’s healthiest city have reacted with anger to a decision to open a McDonald’s restaurant in their midst. Loma Linda, C...
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Photos and story by CI photographer Matt Wobbly The Mt Alexander Shire Souncil held their Aquatic Centre information session at the Town Hall yesterda...
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There are some very important things to be said on the issue of flooding in Castlemaine. The lower part of the town is actually built in a dam with th...
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Researchers from the University of Queensland’s Centre for Mothers & Babies have explored the reasons for the rising rates of caesarean sect...
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Dear CI, I am an enthusiast of renewable energy. Regardless of all the ongoing debate about climate change, with the end in sight for fossil fuels, ou...
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By Chris Hosking The Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation conducts hearings to grant licenses – or not grant them – to applicants seeking ...
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At the VCGR hearing last week, Mount Alexander Shire Council and local residents, including EPIC, presented overwhelming evidence that showed this c...
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Dear CI, At the end of its last Council meeting for 2011, our Councillors quietly voted to stop rubbish collection in the Shire … (while you pic...
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By Alison Pouliot The start to 2012 was marred by the tragic news of the deaths of two people following consumption of Death Cup mushrooms (Amanita ph...
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From The Argus, 3 January 1889 CASTLEMAINE, January 2. The drought has broken up at last. It may be may be that those cyclonic changes about which a...
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CI has made its 17th loan to an entrepreneur in a poor country: María Ubaldina Zhingri Tuba, of Cuenca, Ecuador. María is a member of the communal...
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Video footage has emerged of Indonesian police firing on protesters – killing three people and wounding nine – over a planned gold mine co...
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From ABC Adelaide A young mother-of-two killed herself because she could not cope with her poker machine addiction, the South Australian coroner has f...
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Last week Council voted to not support the application by the Maryborough Highland Society for new gaming premises approval at the old Goods Shed in K...
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The red zone is run away climate change, what we get if we can’t keep the global temperature rise below the ‘safe-ish’ two degrees rise. T...
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Video game addiction could have serious effects on the mental health and relationships of gamers, according to one Victoria University researcher. PhD...
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From: The Australian December 05, AUSTRALIA will have to consider selling uranium to Pakistan in the future after agreeing to export it to India, acco...
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Carcinogenic chemicals stored at the Country Fire Authority (CFA) headquarters in regional Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s have been linked to the dea...
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) have condemned the Australian Labor ...
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