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FactCheck Q A: is violent crime getting worse in Victoria and do people feel less safe than ever?

  • Written by: Stuart Ross, Director and Senior Researcher, Melbourne Criminological Research and Evaluation, University of Melbourne
imageEnergy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg speaking on Q&A.ABC

The Conversation fact-checks claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email.

Excerpt from Q&A, February 6, 2017. Watch from 1:46.

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Australian banks go back to ACCC to further delay customers from getting Apple Pay

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageBanks still holding out on Apple PayAuthor

The 3 major Australian banks have signalled that they have no intention of supporting Apple Pay any time soon with an updated submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Westpac, NAB, Commonwealth and Bendigo and Adelaide Banks had asked the ACCC to be able to be able to...

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A hologram of light and love

  • Written by: Kevin Brophy, Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
imageThe Bartlett Head (Aphrodite) at The MIT Museum 1978, white light transmission hologram Kenneth Lu/flickr, CC BY-ND

I have been editing the unfinished book of a poet friend who died after a too-brief fight with cancer. She kept writing until she could no longer think clearly about what she wanted in her poems. I was easily angered for months after...

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  1. Australia's looming e-cigarette ban robs smokers of a chance to quit
  2. Why big data may be having a big effect on how our politics plays out
  3. Fifty shades of erotica: how sex in literature went mainstream
  4. Mainstream schools need to take back responsibility for educating disengaged students
  5. Baby galaxies light up the universe
  6. Health Check: do cold showers cool you down?
  7. Royal commission hearings show Catholic Church faces a massive reform task
  8. The anatomy of an energy crisis - a pictorial guide, Part 1
  9. Why it's time for Australia to launch its own space agency
  10. Alcohol leads to more violence than other drugs, but you'd never know from the headlines
  11. New research shows how petrol retailers pushed prices up in Perth
  12. The faulty child welfare system is the real issue behind our youth justice crisis
  13. FactCheck: is Australia below the international average when it comes to school funding?
  14. Is there a crisis in public education?
  15. Guide to the classics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  16. How drones can help fight the war on shark attacks
  17. Plea to politicians on energy: stop the brawling
  18. One Nation has now been 'normalised' in the Liberals’ firmament of political players
  19. Queensland Galaxy: One Nation surges to 23%
  20. Fed up with bad relationships? Then why not marry yourself?
  21. Is NBN Co's CEO right that Australians aren't interested in ultra-fast broadband?
  22. Increased private health insurance premiums don't mean increased value
  23. Black holes are even stranger than you can imagine
  24. Australia Post salary scandal highlights our nation's growing wage inequality
  25. Why did energy regulators deliberately turn out the lights in South Australia?
  26. New deal on torture a step in the right direction for Australia's human rights law
  27. Abbott hasn't convinced own electors on Senate curb
  28. South Australia's gambling tax highlights the regulatory mess of online betting
  29. Flattering emails will get you everywhere, except when they're from junk journals
  30. Shared ownership can help make housing affordable for people with disability
  31. Friday essay: Putin, memory wars and the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution
  32. Drugs don't cure everything – doctors can be helped to prescribe other options
  33. Delving through settlers' diaries can reveal Australia's colonial-era climate
  34. How to find success as a woman in science
  35. Vital Signs: the case of the missing investment
  36. Back to school – understanding challenges faced by Indigenous children
  37. FactCheck: are bulk-billing rates falling, or at record levels?
  38. Grattan on Friday: Liberals get high on bubbles and billionaires
  39. Watch the bright star Regulus hide behind the Full Moon
  40. Full responses from Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten
  41. Fifty Shades Darker: an abusive fairy tale that robs women of sexual freedom
  42. Australia's innovation report card shows the nation can do better, and hints at how
  43. Stop focusing on 'the problem' in Indigenous education, and start looking at learning opportunities
  44. God bless the footy: dissent and distractions
  45. Omnibus welfare bill shows the always-tricky politics of budget savings
  46. Unusual conditions: delusional infestation with insects or spiders
  47. Bernardi split is symptomatic of a fractured political system, here and abroad
  48. The Rise of Islamo-Christian Civilization
  49. Australian government challenged to advocate for its citizen on death row in Thailand
  50. From banned to international glory, women's football has sown a rich field for the future

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