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It's no secret that exercise makes your heart bigger in a healthy way, helping it to pump blood more efficiently and lessening the potential for heart failure. Figuring out a way to mimic the way exercise manages to do this could be an extremely beneficial way to treat certain types of heart conditions. A study out this week shows how a protein called cardiotrophin 1 might in fact do this: have the same positive effects on the heart, minus the actual exersise part.

Queensland has recently undergone a redistribution of state electoral boundaries, the first in almost a decade. The existing boundaries were used at three elections: 2009, 2012 and 2015.

The number of seats was increased from 89 to 93. This resulted in the creation of five new electorates, with two seats merged.

The inner-city electorates of Indooroopilly and Mount Coot-tha were merged into the new seat of Maiwar. Maiwar is a marginal LNP seat, with a margin of 3%.

Five new seats were created:

By Chris Becker   Volatility deflates overnight as worries over Korea abated, sending stocks higher as safe havens like Yen and gold were dumped. Meanwhile, the USD returned to strength which emboldened European stocks that have been under the weight of the Euro, while oil dropped. Yesterday in mainland China the Shanghai Composite came back

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Iron ore charts for August 14, 2017: Tianjin benchmark was unchanged at $74.30 though I suspect that should read “unupdated” given big falls in steel and iron ore futures. I still think we’re at the top here. Everything is inflated, demand is fading, stocks are high. There’s no mileage in bidding prices up. The question

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By Leith van Onselen I’ve noted over recent months how a wide disconnect has opened up between the pay rises being received by federal politicians and senior bureaucrats compared with the rest of the population. This disconnect is shown clearly in the most recent wages price data from the ABS, which showed public sector wages

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...AND MY HAMMER, MOTHERF***ERS.THAT, my Beloved Throners, is how you make a reappearance four seasons after we last saw you. Quit your job no questions asked, kill two guys with your mighty f***ing warhammer, ignore Davos"s advice to play it cool and just f**ing bro up with Jon Snow.

Welcome back, Gendry. I don"t even mind that you had your shirt on.

Davos" recruitment of the last Baratheon bastard turned out to be everything I ever wanted. To misquote Homer Simpson, I"m a white woman, aged 18 to 49, and (finally) everyone listens to me: Jon and Gendry, together at last!

Successful completion of optimised turbine for low wind sites.

They say we can’t predict the future, but I’m damn sure we can do a lot to control the course of it. When we look back on our own past, our country’s past, or even the world’s past … there will be a hundred signposts that we missed that could have taken us down a…

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DXY rebounded with risk overnight: The Aussie was weak against both majors: It was also weak against other EMs: Gold fell: The Brent short squeeze ended with a bang: Base metals rose: Big miners too: EM stocks bounced: High yield too: US yields rose but the curve flattened: European spreads tightened: And stocks launched: The

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The Guardian reports that Essential Research’s fortnight rolling average has Labor’s two-party preferred lead unchanged at 54-46, with the Coalition (37%), Labor (39%), the Greens (9%) and One Nation (8%) all unchanged on the primary vote. The poll also records 39% approval of the postal ballot on same-sex marriage with 47% opposed, just one week after the same question elicited respective results of 43% and 38%.

From Essential via The Guardian: The latest weekly snapshot of voter opinion has Labor maintaining its election winning lead over the Coalition on the two-party-preferred measure, 54% to 46%. That result is the same as last week. The Coalition primary vote is on 37% to Labor’s 39%. The Greens are steady on 9%, as is

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By Leith van Onselen ABC’s Four Corners last night ran an investigative special report, entitled Inside the Greens: A party in turmoil, which examined the civil war taking place within its ranks. Here’s a summary of the episode from ABC News: A Greens senator is a “team wrecker”. Local members are “kept in the dark

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From Gottiboff today: The leading city in the fall will be Brisbane, where the situation might become quite ugly. In Sydney, Harry Triguboff says he expects apartment building rates to fall between 25 and 33 per cent over 12 to 18 months which, in anyone’s language, is a major decline. In Melbourne the scene is

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