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Among the many competing principles in healthcare delivery and policy are the notions of providing the ‘best possible care for any individual’ versus ‘doing the best for the most at a population level’. Tied up with this are questions of how to achieve the fairest distribution of healthcare resources, and of health. On such themes, [...] Comments (0)

[Laugh Track blogger Matt Smith weighs in with his thoughts on the new ABC1 sitcom Outland] There’s nothing particularly subtle about Outland, a new series which premiered its first episode on ABC1. If I say that it’s about a group of gay, science fiction geeks, you can probably join the dots on what you’re going to [...] Comments (0)

“A classic Broadway musical for a new generation,” goes the pitch. The Kids are certainly familiar with the tunes; Glee has bred familiarity (and perhaps contempt) of this show, like other dusty Broadway staples, with its covers of Sing! and show-stopping ballad What I Did For Love illegally downloaded to iPods everywhere. But they probably [...] Comments (0)

From a comprehensive study of our friends, we’ve been able why friends seem to get the wrong impression of Vietnam. And it's the guidebooks fault, says Tabitha Carvan. Comments (3)

Aidan Wilson writes… I am a big fan of the Macquarie dictionary. I am especially grateful to it because recently, it backed me up by listing ‘youse’ as a legitimate word in Australian English and thus defended my scrabble play (although I almost lost friends as a result). But in February each year for the [...] Comments (3)

To mix metaphors Airbus may have opened a pandora’s box of cabin envy between wide boys and girls with money, and broke wide boys, and small people, trapped in small seats, all in the confines of an economy class cabin. It is proposing that instead of all seats in a six across A320 economy cabin [...] Comments (0)

Earlier in the week the News Ltd tabloids were convinced that Peter Slipper was going to bring back the ABSURDLY ARCHAIC WIG OMG LOOK AT THAT IDIOT. Sure, they had to resort to Photoshop on Monday, but they knew that as the week progressed they’d be able to rely on all manner of ludicrous shots [...] Comments (1)

AFL fantasy football has exploded in this country since Dreamteam was introduced in 2003. Leigh Josey looks at the reasons behind its unquestionable popularity. Comments (4)

John Richards talks to Matt Smith about his upcoming show Outland, a new comedy show coming to the ABC about a gay science fiction club. In this podcast, John enlightens us with the show’s six year development, and explains who has the bigger closet to come out of. Podcast: A Talk with John Richards. Outland [...] Comments (0)

Lana Del Rey: Born To Die [Universal] The critical backlash against Lana Del Rey began even before her debut album Born To Die arrived. Hipsters initially bewitched by the immediately beguiling Video Games felt betrayed when it became clear her puffy-lipped persona and – no! – even her name were invented. Much internet scorn was [...] Comments (1)

The lack of agreement on the question of whether undue criticism of Gillard is sexist boils down to how we think about sexism. Is sexism something we view at an individual level or a wider social structural level? Is it still sexism, when gender discrimination occurs at a structural level? Before addressing this, I’d just [...] Comments (10)

Guest Post by Andrew Stafford In a new post for the ‘Returns to’ series, Andrew Stafford isn’t crying a river for the loss of his children’s books. I LOST my children’s books in the Queensland floods. The story of how that happened is banal enough. They had not left my mother’s home since I left [...] Comments (0)

“Fashion, for such a mainstream thing, has this amazing ability to absorb from other disciplines.” “Games, I would say, is at the other end of the spectrum. It really struggles, I find, to look at contemporary animation, look at contemporary fashion, and draw from those other media in a way that’s going to excite consumers. [...] Comments (1)