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Explainer: why three government ministers might face contempt of court charges

  • Written by: Lorraine Finlay, Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University
imageGreg Hunt is one of three Turnbull government ministers ordered to appear before Victoria's Supreme Court on Friday.AAP/Lukas Coch

Victoria’s Supreme Court has ordered three Turnbull government ministers to appear before it on Friday to explain why they should not be referred for prosecution for contempt of court. A journalist and newspaper...

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How popular culture gets Australian spy work wrong

  • Written by: John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
imageUnsurprisingly, the Jason Bourne films won't tell you much about ASIO.Bourne Supremacy screenshot/Universal

The cloak-and-dagger exploits of characters like James Bond and Jason Bourne have shaped our cultural idea of spy work. But these films, made mostly in the US and UK, have little to do with the reality of Australian intelligence.

Public...

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Armpits and melons: an olfactory reading of James Joyce

  • Written by: Frances Devlin-Glass, Associate Professor, Literary Studies, Deakin University
imageMany literary questions about smell are quite philosophical. Why do humans get pleasure from perfumes? Do rich bodies smell differently from poor ones?from www.shutterstock.com

Smell is the Cinderella of the senses in Anglophone literature. The Europeans do it differently from English writers. The Naturalists, with their anti-romantic, hyper...

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Ten Network has a hard road back to viability

  • Written by: Peter Wells, Professor, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney

With Ten Network in voluntary administration, efforts are under way to restructure the company. But having lost A$231.2 million in the half-year ending February 2017, it will take a lot to make Ten a viable business.

In the short term, Ten has to focus on reducing costs by renegotiating contracts with its suppliers. Over the long term, Ten has to...

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  1. Politics podcast: Josh Frydenberg, George Christensen and Mark Butler on the Finkel review
  2. The NDIS costs are on track, but that doesn't mean all participants are getting the support they need
  3. Two in five pregnant women don't receive care in the first trimester
  4. Emily Bell: Journalism in the age of Trump and the real-time social web
  5. Elder abuse report ignores impact on people's health
  6. The problems with asking banks to police financial abuse
  7. Explainer: what is public interest journalism?
  8. CPA in crisis: why more associations will have to disclose CEO pay
  9. Playing the numbers: a billion-dollar gamble on the European X-ray Laser
  10. Will the superhero films ever end? The business of blockbuster movie franchises
  11. Are maternal hormones different when carrying a boy or a girl?
  12. Zoos aren't Victorian-era throwbacks: they're important in saving species
  13. Leaving school early means you're likely never to return to study and training in adult life
  14. Autonomy and strong female leadership key to success of Indigenous owned Murri School
  15. Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries
  16. Ten Network's problems are history repeating
  17. UK Labour's votes have become inefficiently distributed since 2010
  18. For $70m, government gets off lightly, but settlement still highlights responsibility for Manus
  19. When is 'not a backdoor' just a backdoor? Australia's struggle with encryption
  20. Trepidation and delight: experiencing Dark Mofo with a three-year-old
  21. Uncertainty isn't causing slow economic growth, for now
  22. Health Check: what's the right way to blow your nose?
  23. Why women’s tennis rankings need an overhaul
  24. Tall turkeys and nuggety chickens: large 'megapode' birds once lived across Australia
  25. Research Check: can even moderate drinking cause brain damage?
  26. Three charts on: Australia's booming prison population
  27. Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that
  28. Indigenous picture books offering windows into worlds
  29. Curious Kids: Who made the alphabet song?
  30. The compulsion to create: 'outsider art' at MONA's Museum of Everything
  31. From Joseph Banks to big data, herbaria bring centuries-old science into the digital age
  32. Three strategies unions are considering for their survival
  33. In defence of serendipity: the Silicon Emperor is wearing no clothes
  34. Critical backbenchers push back on Finkel clean energy target plan
  35. Mamamia! When it's high time for some bitch-shamin'
  36. New tax treaty will close loopholes that allow multinationals to avoid tax
  37. Film festival reveals the passion, emotion and disappointment that can come with science
  38. Should Australia have a Modern Slavery Act?
  39. An extra organ or body part is more common than you think
  40. Could you pass the proposed English test for Australian citizenship?
  41. A better alternative to levying the bank tax
  42. Report sparks concern about how schools support students with disabilities
  43. The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail
  44. Regulator failing to resolve complaints on alleged human rights abuses by Australian companies
  45. Sydney public housing evictions a policy success? Only if you ignore the high human cost
  46. Some private hospitals are safer than others, but we don't know which
  47. Explainer: what Islam actually says about domestic violence
  48. Guide to the classics: Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
  49. How to backup life on Earth ahead of any doomsday event
  50. We need to know the true cost of Indigenous boarding school scholarships on communities

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