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Change Agents: David Buchanan and Fr Paul Kelly on ending the gay panic defence

  • Written by: Andrew Dodd, Program Director - Journalism, Swinburne University of Technology
imageDavid Buchanan and Fr Paul Kelly have spearheaded pushes to abolish the gay panic defence.Forbes Chambers/ABC/Supplied

The gay panic – or homosexual advance – defence has allowed people literally to get away with murder. It’s given them a way to convince juries they were provoked to kill because a homosexual person propositioned...

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Rather than capping tax revenue, the government should reform the system

  • Written by: John Freebairn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

As the government pulls together the May budget, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann is aiming to cap tax revenue at 23.9% of GDP. At best, this is an arbitrary cap. More importantly, it distracts from real tax reform, which could increase national productivity and income.

There are many potential reforms to the tax system that are revenue neutral,...

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A short history of anaesthesia: from unspeakable agony to unlocking consciousness

  • Written by: David Liley, Professor, Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University of Technology
imageGeneral anaesthesia has come a long way since its first public demonstration in the 19th century, depicted here.Wellcome Library, London/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

We expect to feel no pain during surgery or at least to have no memory of the procedure. But it wasn’t always so.

Until the discovery of general anaesthesia in the middle of the 19th...

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The hunt for the Superstars of STEM to engage more women in science

  • Written by: Lisa Harvey-Smith, Group Leader - Australia Telescope National Facility Science, CSIRO

Superstars of STEM is a new program by Science and Technology Australia that aims to smash the stereotypical portrait of people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

The plan is to identify 30 superstar women currently in STEM, and work with them to create role models for young women and girls, and thus move towards equal...

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