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Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem

These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of Diagnosis.

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far
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"I know it has a 4 in it" Why our feelings are not to be trusted

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What’s your ikigai? A fascinating Japanese concept can be both very useful and very detrimental

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Therapy Won’t Make You a Better Person. Your therapist is positioned to always take your side — that’s both a good and bad thing.

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How to live in an absurd universe The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus

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Midlife Crisis Anyone? I offer a straight-up look into my early experience of returning to my roots to find my passion.

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Black Friday: why our brains love a bargain The art of looking away from the deal.

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What is Bluesky? Why tens of millions of people are heading for a ‘decentralised’ social media platform With a name that invokes freedom and a clean start and a design that promises to put control back in our hands, the Bluesky platform is attracting users away from Twitter/X en masse.

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