By Toija Cinque, Associate Professor, Communications (Digital Media), Deakin University
Paying for engaging content is not the same as intending to fund extremism, but it creates a risk that harmful content will benefit.
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By Kate Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
What do we owe the people who raised us, and what does that debt cost us in return? For those who work themselves to the bone keeping a family afloat, when does sacrifice tip into self-erasure?
Break Of Day, a new play by Steve Rodgers, examines the lives of ordinary, working-class Australians who strive and schlep against all odds to make ends meet. A semi-autobiographical work, the play is a tribute to the essential and often invisible labour of supermarket workers, cleaners, nurses and others who keep the country running.
The script first came across director Sarah Goodes’…
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By Jack Janetzki, Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Adelaide University
Lisa Kalisch Ellett, Research Fellow, Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Adelaide University
A new medicine for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has just entered the treatment toolbox: centanafadine, a once-a-day tablet sold under the brand name Simtriyo.
It has been approved in the United States for adults and children aged six years and older but isn’t yet available in Australia.
So how does it work? How is it different to other ADHD medications? And what are the potential side effects?
It belongs to a new class of ADHD…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A police officer stands guard in Peshawar, Pakistan, August 5, 2023. © 2023 Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo (London) – Pakistani authorities should ensure a prompt, independent, and transparent criminal investigation into the deaths on August 5, 2026, of a woman and a 17-year-old girl in police custody in Lahore, Punjab province, Human Rights Watch said today.The deaths of the sisters-in-law, identified only as Anmol and Amina, highlight longstanding concerns about torture and other ill-treatment in police custody, particularly of women, and the persistent failure…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Senator Bragg spoke about his views on housing, taxation, immigration and the economy in an address to the National Press Club.
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By Ashton Bradley, Head of Department of Physics, University of Otago
New Zealand is placing big bets on science and technology, with plans to boost high-tech research funding by $120 million annually by 2030.
This investment – targeting ambitious fields such as artificial intelligence, advanced materials, health, energy and space – will help the country’s brightest minds make new discoveries and turn smart ideas into commercial reality.
If all of that sits at one end…
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By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson argues Australia is “predominately a Judeo-Christian society” and should live under “one cultural umbrella”.
The term “Judeo-Christian” is shorthand, here, for a set of values that privilege Western culture. As a term, it explicitly excludes other world religions, such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.
But this term is, in fact,…
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By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
The seven million Australians who live and work in regional, rural and remote Australia are being “left behind” by telecommunications services, according to a new report released today by the industry ombudsman.
The report comes only weeks after an outage on the Telstra network crippled services across the country. It reveals people living outside…
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By Philippa Collin, Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
The argument that young people belong in school misses an important point: children and teenagers have political and civic rights.
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By Emily Foley, Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University; University of Canberra
Josh Sunman, Associate Lecturer in Public Policy, Flinders University
One Nation has staked its claim to being the working class party of choice, arguing Labor has long left the ‘battlers’ behind.
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