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If we are to counter medical misogyny, women can no longer be treated as unreliable witnesses of their own experience 👈🏽
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The sample sizes differ, as do the rate of non-responses between 2020 and 2025 it appears.
Dr Liz Allen
Dr Liz Allen
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How everything went so wrong at the ANU.
Everyone from Elon Musk to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to the pope have opinions on declining fertility rates - here’s why it really matters theconversation.com/birth-rates-...
Is the world headed for a human catastrophe with declining birth rates? theconversation.com/birth-rates-...
Lots of talk of life satisfaction in Australia being worse now than during COVID. I hate to be the bearer of bad news/reality, but it’s a beat up. There’s NO appreciable difference between 2020 and 2025 rates. Decline since 2014 is a worry though. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...
JFC. Please vaccinate your children. You could be saving lives. (This is gut wrenching) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
University House is the beating heart of ANU. It’s a meeting place where students, scholars, senior officials and the ANU community come together. I cannot wait to get back there. It feels like coming home. ❤️ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/928587...
A damning report by Australia's audit office makes explosive revelations about the Australian National University's financial management.
On Sunday Switzerland votes on capping its population at 10 million. Called, without irony, the Sustainability Initiative. My essay in the Green European Journal's summer edition traces this (il)logic it: Too Many, Too Few: Malthusianisation and the Politics of Population Anxiety. Link in comments
Dr Liz Allen
Dr Liz Allen
Dr Liz Allen
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Rather than an exploding overpopulation bomb, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to lacking supports to help raise much-wanted children.
Rather than an exploding overpopulation bomb, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to lacking supports to help raise much-wanted children.
Measles killed Rebecca Archer's daughter Renae slowly and silently over a decade. She has a message for the growing number of parents hesitant to have their children vaccinated.
Our summer edition, Life Lines: Navigating Demographic Shifts, is out now.
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Adjusting to the new demographic reality requires that we pivot away from productivity and growth, and towards care for one another and for the planet.