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Finding balance on marriage equality debate a particular challenge for the media

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
imageCory Bernardi's views on same-sex marriage may be crude and ignorant, but the media are nonetheless obligated to report how he uses his power.AAP/Lukas Coch

Covering the same-sex marriage debate presents the media with an acute ethical dilemma: how to give effect to people’s right of free speech while taking into account truth-telling,...

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Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero

  • Written by: Ali Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
imageJoan of Arc depicted on horseback in an illustration from a 1505 manuscript.Wikimedia Commons

One need not be a parent of a young child, as I am, to be conscious of the full-blown resurgence of the superhero in contemporary popular culture. Beyond the dizzying proliferation of fetishised merchandise to do with Marvel and DC protagonists and the...

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Lessons from Adelaide in how a smart city can work to benefit everyone

  • Written by: Nick Falkner, Associate Professor and Director of the Australian Smart Cities Consortium, University of Adelaide

By the time you’ve finished reading this article, roughly 20 people will have moved from the country into a city somewhere around the world. In any given week, millions of people head into cities.

Cities are growing well beyond anything their founders could have imagined. At the same time, the resources available within cities are not...

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Walking the fine line between healthy weight advice and fat shaming

  • Written by: Suzanne Carroll, Assistant Professor, University of Canberra
imageHealth campaigns to reduce obesity have been accused of fat shaming, so how can we address this health issue without making people feel bad about themselves?from www.shutterstock.com.au

Being overweight increases your risk of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, muscle and joint problems, and some cancers (including endometrial, breast and...

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  2. Noise from offshore oil and gas surveys can affect whales up to 3km away
  3. Grattan on Friday: Malcolm Turnbull's government has finally defied fiction
  4. New shock rocks government: Nationals' deputy Fiona Nash a dual British citizen
  5. Unrepentant Hanson hopes burqa stunt will create debate
  6. Father and son: Saturn and Jupiter in the northern sky
  7. Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on Airbnb and its impact on cities
  8. What businesses can do to stamp out slavery in their supply chains
  9. We all need to forget, even robots
  10. From Charlottesville to Nazi Germany, sometimes monuments have to fall
  11. Of renewables, Robocops and risky business
  12. High Court challenge to offshore immigration detention power fails
  13. Five commonly over-diagnosed conditions and what we can do about them
  14. Mythbusting Ancient Rome -- did all roads actually lead there?
  15. Grooming the globe: denying fairness, complexity and humanity
  16. Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity
  17. When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect
  18. Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see
  19. Australia emits mercury at double the global average
  20. When artists get involved in research, science benefits
  21. A new approach to culture
  22. Health Check: do joint and muscle aches get worse in the cold?
  23. The Buy Queensland strategy breaks international trade deals
  24. Is The Bachelor anti-feminist, or is conventional heterosexual romance the real problem?
  25. Melbourne shows up Sydney in funding the most disadvantaged suburbs
  26. Bored reading science? Let's change how scientists write
  27. Curious Kids: Why don't the planets closest to the Sun melt or burn up?
  28. To the High Court we go: six MPs under clouds in decisions that could undermine the government
  29. Here's how many people get infections in Australian hospitals every year
  30. The hollow promise of construction-led jobs and growth
  31. For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research
  32. Costly signals needed to deliver inconvenient truth
  33. Climate change is a financial risk, according to a lawsuit against the CBA
  34. ABC targeted in government deal with Pauline Hanson
  35. No, it wasn't a conspiracy that caused Barnaby's problem – it was himself
  36. Cyberspace aggression adds to North Korea's threat to global security
  37. A fragmented streaming video market is good for everyone but the consumer
  38. No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems
  39. On brand: how Australia's apartment frenzy echoes the 1870s cattle boom
  40. Royal commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it's time to act
  41. Book review: The New Puberty
  42. What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years
  43. What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin
  44. What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  45. The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime
  46. The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour
  47. The science of being 'nice': how politeness is different from compassion
  48. Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
  49. 'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use
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