No campaigners said the Voice wasn’t the right solution, that they had better alternatives. In the 12 months since the referendum failed, no one’s offered any real solutions.
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TikTok was once the realm of teenagers dancing and cute animal clips. But as the platform has grown in popularity, so too has it’s usefulness as a political too, but there are pitfalls to avoid.
Apartment defects continue to be a problem in Australia as builders prioritise cost over safety. Our research shows there are ways they can do both.
White people that sweep into developing countries to “save” people of colour are widely derided, including by donors. Does this translate to less charity donations?
As well as the added costs of upgrades and options that the marketing glosses over, people need to consider five other sources of cost blow-outs when building a home.
The Listen Loudly, Act Strongly report lays out systemic racism at the national broadcaster. In the face of external attack, the ABC needs to stand up for its culturally diverse staff.
Australia can take legal action against people accused of atrocity crimes, even if the person isn’t Australian and the alleged crimes were miles away. But the laws are flawed.
Under current laws in most states and territories, the life of an unborn child is legally indistinguishable from that of the mother.
For many of us, COVID has become just a bad memory, despite its lasting and mixed legacies. While the media have largely lost interest in COVID, and people are now rather blase about it, the disease is still taking a toll.
The Greens have called for the government to intervene and tell the RBA to cut interest rates. Such a step would undermine central bank independence.
There’s a widespread belief that people who breach their bail conditions do so deliberately, but the real causes are often much more benign.
In a time when media companies are more cash-strapped than ever, the threat of defamation action has a chilling effect on the stories that get told.
Away from the glare of high-profile trials, defamation law is being used against women who come forward about sexual harassment. There’s little political appetite to fix it.
In recent years, Australia has been dubbed the “defamation capital of the world”. High-profile legal stoushes in the headlines seem to back this up. How can we reconcile this with freedom of speech?
Despite loud calls for tough policing of e-scooters and even outright bans, the problems can be better managed with technology and public education.
A new report shows Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is worth more here than News Corp and Nine combined.
New data from Victoria shows that in a quarter of deaths by suicide between 2009 and 2016, the person had experienced family violence before they died.
Tracing the experiences of 6,000 mothers, new research shows how money, stress and excessive use of screens can affect the preschool behavioural development of their children.
Shared e-scooters are much more regulated and monitored than privately owned e-scooters, which are likely to pose greater risks as a result.
There’s ever-evolving ways for children and young people to be harmed online. Here’s what kids think about the harms they experience and how to prevent them.
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor in Social Policy, University of Bradford
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Lecturer in Law & Justice, UNSW
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Psychology, University of Ghana
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University