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Elder abuse report ignores impact on people's health

  • Written by: Joseph Ibrahim, Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
imageElder abuse covers physical, sexual, psychological, emotional and financial abuse.from www.shutterstock.com

The good news is that Australia is doing something positive to improve the lives of our parents and grandparents. The bad news is we can no longer pretend there are golden years awaiting us all in old age.

The release today of the long awaited...

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The problems with asking banks to police financial abuse

  • Written by: Eileen Webb, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School, Curtin University

The Australian Law Reform Commission wants to give banks the responsibility to protect vulnerable customers from financial abuse. But there are a number of issues with this approach. Its success depends on the good faith of the banks, and could leave some customers uncovered and the banks with no one to report abuse to.

In a new report on elder...

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Explainer: what is public interest journalism?

  • Written by: Andrea Carson, Lecturer, Media and Politics, School of Social and Political Sciences; Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
imagePublic interest reporting is often equated with watchdog or investigative reporting. But it can include other factual stories that serve the public interest.Shutterstock

Public interest journalism could be considered the antithesis of media’s darker side, which includes fake news, propaganda, censorship and voyeurism.

The outcomes of public...

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CPA in crisis: why more associations will have to disclose CEO pay

  • Written by: Julie Walker, Associate Professor in Accounting, The University of Queensland

The wave of public discontent that’s changed how corporate Australia reports and discloses executive pay, is now moving to other types of organisations. The most recent example is professional accounting body Certified Practising Accountants of Australia (CPA), which has been subject to heated member debate about the remuneration of its CEO...

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  1. Playing the numbers: a billion-dollar gamble on the European X-ray Laser
  2. Will the superhero films ever end? The business of blockbuster movie franchises
  3. Are maternal hormones different when carrying a boy or a girl?
  4. Zoos aren't Victorian-era throwbacks: they're important in saving species
  5. Leaving school early means you're likely never to return to study and training in adult life
  6. Autonomy and strong female leadership key to success of Indigenous owned Murri School
  7. Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries
  8. Ten Network's problems are history repeating
  9. UK Labour's votes have become inefficiently distributed since 2010
  10. For $70m, government gets off lightly, but settlement still highlights responsibility for Manus
  11. When is 'not a backdoor' just a backdoor? Australia's struggle with encryption
  12. Trepidation and delight: experiencing Dark Mofo with a three-year-old
  13. Uncertainty isn't causing slow economic growth, for now
  14. Health Check: what's the right way to blow your nose?
  15. Why women’s tennis rankings need an overhaul
  16. Tall turkeys and nuggety chickens: large 'megapode' birds once lived across Australia
  17. Research Check: can even moderate drinking cause brain damage?
  18. Three charts on: Australia's booming prison population
  19. Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that
  20. Indigenous picture books offering windows into worlds
  21. Curious Kids: Who made the alphabet song?
  22. The compulsion to create: 'outsider art' at MONA's Museum of Everything
  23. From Joseph Banks to big data, herbaria bring centuries-old science into the digital age
  24. Three strategies unions are considering for their survival
  25. In defence of serendipity: the Silicon Emperor is wearing no clothes
  26. Critical backbenchers push back on Finkel clean energy target plan
  27. Mamamia! When it's high time for some bitch-shamin'
  28. New tax treaty will close loopholes that allow multinationals to avoid tax
  29. Film festival reveals the passion, emotion and disappointment that can come with science
  30. Should Australia have a Modern Slavery Act?
  31. An extra organ or body part is more common than you think
  32. Could you pass the proposed English test for Australian citizenship?
  33. A better alternative to levying the bank tax
  34. Report sparks concern about how schools support students with disabilities
  35. The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail
  36. Regulator failing to resolve complaints on alleged human rights abuses by Australian companies
  37. Sydney public housing evictions a policy success? Only if you ignore the high human cost
  38. Some private hospitals are safer than others, but we don't know which
  39. Explainer: what Islam actually says about domestic violence
  40. Guide to the classics: Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
  41. How to backup life on Earth ahead of any doomsday event
  42. We need to know the true cost of Indigenous boarding school scholarships on communities
  43. Why you should care about the world's largest video games expo E3
  44. How hard will Tony Abbott run against the Finkel plan?
  45. Turnbull and Shorten urge need to curb terrorists' opportunities on the internet
  46. Not merely costume: the power and seduction of the Queen's hats
  47. FactCheck Q A: are rates of drug use 2.5 times higher among unemployed people than employed people?
  48. Here's one to gymnologize over: the case for bringing back snollygostery, trumpery and humbuggery
  49. The economics of self-service checkouts
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