Switzer Daily
13 May 2021
For all the leaps and bounds in medical
science, the know-how behind detecting diseases hasn’t changed much in decades
– or even centuries.
Take X-rays, which are widely used
despite the wee problem of irradiating the patients. And that’s because they
are cheap and convenient.
The underlying tech hasn’t really moved
on since 1895, when Germany physicist Wilhelm Rongen stumbled on the idea with
a heated filament cathode that generates electrons in a vacuum tube.
Computed tomography (CT) scans – which
parses X-ray images into ‘slices’ of a body – have been around since the 1970s.
But now a new breed of ASX players are
Labor must be bold and consider changing leader before next election
12 May 2021, 19:52 GMT+10
To stand a chance of winning the next election, Labor must change its leader to someone who is well-known and has broad appeal, writes Paul Begley.
DEPOSED AT the 11th hour on 3 February 1983 by a Labor candidate with fire in his belly by the name of Bob Hawke, a despondent Bill Hayden observed philosophically that a drover s dog could have led Labor to victory in the 1983 election against a troubled Fraser Government. Hawke won that election in a landslide that might have been Hayden s landslide, or not. Labor did not want to take that risk and installed Hawke.
Lessons for Labor from realignment in Borisâ Britain
The Tory victory in the Hartlepool byelection should warn the ALP that it canât rely on Scott Morrisonâs prime ministership crumbling in some Twitter war.
May 11, 2021 â 1.55pm
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During the 2019 federal election, Labor was sometimes referred to as âthe Q&A partyâ after the ABCâs weekly tele-fest of indignation and complaint. On the doorsteps of Hartlepool in last weekâs byelection in the English north-east, voters called British Labour âthe student partyâ.
In both elections, conservative parties pulled off landmark victories against parties of the old left. The latter run the danger of morphing into middle-class protest parties, tweeters with no appeal to aspirational working-class voters in the mortgage belt who just want policies to help them get on.
PM pays tribute to Andrew Peacock11/05/2021|9min
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has paid tribute to the late former Liberal leader Andrew Peacock in parliament.
“He was a man of great lives, of achievements and exhilarations. Of course, these extended mostly to his family, but so many others. The Liberal Party, the track, the Essendon football club, each of them that left him with his shares of wins and of losses and near misses also,” Mr Morrison said.
“The 1984 and 1990 general elections nearly chasing down former Prime Minister Bob Hawke. And the 1974 Melbourne Cup, where Leilani was the favourite and appeared to have it in the bag. A Cup lost in the shadows of the post.
There has been much debate recently about the way women who work in our federal parliament are treated. This discussion has highlighted that society continues to place very different values on the way women and men behave.
Language – as a behaviour – holds a mirror up to these values. And changing the way we think about language is an important step toward changing the way we think about gender.
Smoke-and-mirror fixes for folksy sneer winces
Folk wisdom provides a dizzying array of misleading accounts of how women communicate, many of them riddled with sexism. Proverbs tell us “women’s tongues are like lambs’ tails; they are never still”. But research tells us men talk and interrupt more – especially when they’re speaking to women.