On Q&A, government minister Zed Seselja remarked that surveys showed confidence in media has fallen globally. In Australia, he said, it has dropped lower than in the US. Is he right?
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Dr James Brown answered questions on Facebook Live from how much exercise you need to what you should eat afterwards.
There is a growing body of evidence available on how many people are using euthanasia and assisted dying laws in places where it is legal.
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie responded to The Conversation’s request for sources and comment regarding our FactCheck on her climate change comments.
In a time of slippery weasel words and ‘alternative facts’, we are delighted to see the return of the ABC fact-checking unit in collaboration with RMIT.
Has the Coalition government cut $35 million from frontline legal services for victims of domestic and family violence?
After Australia announced a refugee deal with the US, Labor’s Kate Ellis told Q&A that millions of dollars were spent on an earlier deal with Cambodia, yet very few lives were changed. Is that right?
On Q&A, panellists duelled over the numbers of migrants Australia takes a year. Is it 200,000 or 800,000? How many permanent and how many temporary? Let’s check the facts.
Regardless of whether the suicide rate went down, it is far too blunt an instrument to measure the potential distress same-sex marriage debates cause for those in the LGBTI community.
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie said Australia is one of the few countries in the world to accept foreign political donations. Is that true?
Last night ABC’s Q&A scored its usual high ratings. Not for the first time, the ABC’s flagship public access current affairs program gave primetime commercial TV a run for its money. It’s not without…
The Australian media are all for free speech – until it clashes with their politics.
Describing someone as ‘hysterical’ associates them with traits long deemed feminine – being overly emotional, out-of-control and irrational. If levelled against a male, the charge would impugn his manliness.
Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan speaks his mind about space travel, terraforming and religion.
None of the politicians are talking about it, but threats to freedom of speech have emerged in three different guises in the first three weeks of the election campaign. First there was the assailing of…
It’s possible the difference between Australia and the Netherlands (where euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal) lies more in the way we think about what we are doing than what actually happens.
Many professionals risk the wrath of their governing body if they act against any code of ethics. But not so the IT industry. Is it time for that to change?
I think it is a bit out of control and I think it’s important … not just to talk about tighter management … but actually do it. Tony Abbott would have been absolutely right – if he had been speaking about…
The history of the ABC reveals battles lost and won around censorship, concessions made in times of crisis and independence compromised or overturned.
Katy Faust, a US traditional marriage advocate, told Q&A that children have a natural right to a mother and a father, highlighting weaknesses in studies on same-sex parented children. Let’s check the facts.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University
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Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
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Professor, Journalism, RMIT University
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Professor of Law, Villanova University
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Researcher, Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Professorial Research Fellow in Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester