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Medicine And Health

Miranda Davies-Tuck NHRMC Early Career Research Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash Health

The hospital at home

With more women choosing to give birth at home, researchers are developing a clinical guideline for safe practices in Victoria.

With more women choosing to give birth at home, researchers are developing a clinical guideline for safe practices in Victoria.

Politics And Society

Kate Seear Associate Professor, Law Research Services

Time for decriminalisation

In the wake of the UN's groundbreaking drug policy commitment, the time is right for drug laws reform.

In the wake of the UN's groundbreaking drug policy commitment, the time is right for drug laws reform.

Environment

RISEing to the challenge in Indonesia

The five-year water-focused project is revitalising informal settlements in Makassar.

Jane Wardani PhD candidate

The five-year water-focused project is revitalising informal settlements in Makassar.

Environment

Paul Satur

Environment

Tapping into change

Safe and clean access to water and sanitation is still not a right afforded to everyone, even in Australia.

Paul Satur Lecturer, Water Sensitive Cities, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

Safe and clean access to water and sanitation is still not a right afforded to everyone, even in Australia.

Politics And Society

Bryan Horrigan Dean, Faculty of Law

Death knell: killing off capital punishment

A new institute is leading the push to eliminate the 'faulty' justice of the death penalty.

A new institute is leading the push to eliminate the 'faulty' justice of the death penalty.

Politics And Society

Bill Flanik Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations

Metaphors be with you

President Trump’s proposed wall on the US-Mexico border is more symbol than substance – just like Reagan's Star Wars program.

President Trump’s proposed wall on the US-Mexico border is more symbol than substance – just like Reagan's Star Wars program.

Stephen Gray Senior Lecturer, Law Resources

Falling through the gap

A genuine partnership needs to be established between the government and Aboriginal people to get Closing the Gap targets back on track.

A genuine partnership needs to be established between the government and Aboriginal people to get Closing the Gap targets back on track.

Becky Batagol Associate Professor at Monash Sustainable Development Institute and the Faculty of Law

Gender equality: it's everyone's business

We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.

We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.

Nick Faulkner Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

A communication change for the better

Governments around the world are turning to behavioural science to find better ways to persuade people to act.

Governments around the world are turning to behavioural science to find better ways to persuade people to act.

Kate Fitz-Gibbon Senior Lecturer in Criminology

NT child detention: what's changed?

One year after the royal commission into Northern Territory child detention recommended big changes, little of substance has been done to tackle the problem by the NT Labor government.

One year after the royal commission into Northern Territory child detention recommended big changes, little of substance has been done to tackle the problem by the NT Labor government.

John Bradley Associate Professor, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre

More than words: preserving Indigenous languages

Monash Country Lines archive founder John Bradley is 38 years into a journey tracing and recording vanishing oral traditions in an Indigenous heartland.

Monash Country Lines archive founder John Bradley is 38 years into a journey tracing and recording vanishing oral traditions in an Indigenous heartland.

Euan Wallace Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Sciences

Breakthrough to help babies breathe easy

An innovative stem cell trial offers hope in treating premature babies born with chronic lung disease.

An innovative stem cell trial offers hope in treating premature babies born with chronic lung disease.