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Contested spaces: living off the edge in a city mall where design fuels conflict

  • Written by: Matt Novacevski, Research Fellow, Deakin University

This is the sixth article in our Contested Spaces series. These pieces look at the conflicting uses, expectations and norms that people bring to public spaces, the clashes that result and how we can resolve these.


There are few more telling signs of conflict in urban spaces than calls to send in the police. Geelong’s Little Malop Street Mall...

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Why is it still so hard for patients in need to get medicinal cannabis?

  • Written by: Alex Wodak, Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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This week the federal government granted its first license for an Australian company to grow and harvest medical marijuana.

This follows Australia’s amending of the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 to legalise the production and use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The amendment came in February 2016, a year after the death of campaigner Daniel...

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Not 'all is forgiven' for asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka

  • Written by: Niro Kandasamy, PhD Candidate, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne

In his recent visit to Australia, the prime minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, urged Sri Lankan asylum seekers to “come back, all is forgiven”. He went on to say:

They can come back to Sri Lanka and we will help them.

Immigration department figures show as of January 2017, there were 86 Sri Lankan adult men in detention...

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Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens

  • Written by: Margaret Kristin Merga, Lecturer and Researcher in Adolescent Literacy, Health Promotion and Education, Murdoch University
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There is a common perception that children are more likely to read if it is on a device such as an iPad or Kindles. But new research shows that this is not necessarily the case.

In a study of children in Year 4 and 6, those who had regular access to devices with...

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  3. Young workers expect their older colleagues to get out of the way
  4. Faking it: we should make manipulating algorithms for political purposes a crime
  5. Why 'green-black' alliances are less simple than they seem
  6. Grattan on Friday: One Nation blows WA campaign but will Hanson’s supporters care?
  7. Politics podcast: WA election – Mark McGowan accuses Turnbull of bluffing
  8. Research Check: will using lice products give my children behavioural problems?
  9. Australians' attitudes to vaccination are more complex than a simple 'pro' or 'anti' label
  10. What our backyards can tell us about the world
  11. The daily life of a Neanderthal revealed from the gunk in their teeth
  12. Democracy needs more trees and less Trump
  13. Weekly Dose: while the media panic about ice, we should worry about carfentanil
  14. FactCheck: does Western Australia have the highest unemployment in the country?
  15. The great movie scenes: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  16. Contested spaces: we need to see public space through older eyes too
  17. Face Value: sentiment analysis shows business leaders are positive about the year ahead
  18. DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to country
  19. Roe 8: Perth's environmental flashpoint in the WA election
  20. Indonesia vows to tackle marine pollution
  21. Selective schools increasingly cater to the most advantaged students
  22. Banning orders won't solve alcohol-fuelled violence – but they can be part of the solution
  23. Here's Looking at: Brook Andrew's Sexy and dangerous
  24. Health Check: do men really sweat more than women?
  25. Politics podcast: WA poll – Kim Beazley on One Nation
  26. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, February 2017
  27. Warm for the human form, from Rodin's bronzes to stone slabs
  28. Why 'digital gold' won't ever kill off the real thing
  29. Here's how citizen power can drive mental health reform
  30. Contested spaces: a user's guide to shared paths
  31. WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of 'CIA hacking'
  32. Why we're marching for science in Australia
  33. FactCheck Q A: are there laws to protect against 'revenge porn' in Australia?
  34. The Science of Leading
  35. The fragility of women's rights: how female guilds wielded power long ago
  36. Unconscious bias is keeping women out of senior roles, but we can get around it
  37. Girls with early first periods become women with greater risk of gestational diabetes
  38. Contested spaces: you can't stop the music – the sounds that divide shoppers
  39. Speaking with: Peter Green on saving the Christmas Island red crab
  40. The eyes have it: how vision may have driven fishes onto land
  41. Snapchat's share price already fading as fast as one of its user's photos
  42. Politics podcast: election report from the West
  43. Is there a test your child can take before getting vaccinated, as Pauline Hanson said?
  44. ABC restructuring: leaner, but hopefully not meaner
  45. Explainer: what are chemical weapons and how do soldiers guard against them?
  46. Why do specialists get paid so much and does something need to be done about it?
  47. Why women make the best stock traders
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