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Valerie Amos: 'academic freedom and freedom of speech must be protected and respected'

  • Written by Baroness Valerie Amos, Director, SOAS, University of London
imageStudents around the world are taking a view on their universities' colonial past. John Stillwell/PA Wire

This is an extract from a speech made by Valerie Amos for the Menzies Oration on Higher Education at the University of Melbourne on September 14, 2016.

You will be aware of the student movement linked to the #rhodesmustfall campaign. Originally...

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State aid lessons for Australia from the Apple EU tax case

  • Written by Pamela Finckenberg-Broman, PhD Candidate Griffith Law school, Griffith University

State aid is not necessarily the right forum to tackle tax avoidance by multinationals, but it is effective.

The European Commission’s case against Apple for receiving undue tax benefits from Ireland demonstrates the EU has had it with multinational corporations transferring profits between entities to avoid paying taxes inside the Union.

The...

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Why Australians should say 'Yes' to the same-sex marriage plebiscite

  • Written by Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
imageMalcolm Turnbull introduced a bill for a same-sex marriage plebiscite to parliament on Wednesday.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Australians should say “Yes” to the plebiscite on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised, in both senses. “Yes” to the simple question:

Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?

And...

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ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, August 2016

  • Written by Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

As the 2016 federal election campaign recedes into memory, online engagement with the news in Australia has returned to what passes for normality these days. This is also reflected in the news sharing activities we are able to observe in the Australian Twitter News Index for August: the long-term patterns of how Twitter users’ attention is...

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  1. Take control over the end of your life: what you need to know about advance care directives
  2. When process becomes product – repacking science communication
  3. NHMRC fluoride paper: relax, Australian citizens, your pineal glands are safe
  4. After Tasmania's year of disasters, bushfire tops the state's growing list of natural hazards
  5. Race to the White House – Episode One
  6. Social media and defamation law pose threats to free speech, and it's time for reform
  7. FactCheck: Have eight of Australia's 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years?
  8. Breaking news: marriage has very little to do with religion (and vice versa)
  9. Media owners steer government away from reform in the public interest
  10. Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?
  11. Shadow banking increases the risk of another global financial crisis
  12. Here’s looking at: John Olsen, Summer in the You Beaut Country, 1962
  13. What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many people get it wrong?
  14. Squandering riches: can Perth realise the value of its biodiversity?
  15. Into the spotlight: media coverage of the Paralympic Games has come a long way
  16. Making drug development less secretive could lead to quicker, cheaper therapies
  17. Pauline Hanson 20 years on: same refrain, new target
  18. Newspoll steady, with Turnbull's poor ratings continuing
  19. Senator, You're No Socrates
  20. Foreign donations on agenda for parliamentary inquiry
  21. Shorten shoots down plebiscite
  22. To get young people into work, we first need to understand how the workplace is changing
  23. Despite the funding cut, ARENA's glass is still half full – here's how to spend the money
  24. Weekly Dose: cannabis has been used medicinally for millennia, why is legalising it taking so long?
  25. Explainer: why Hanjin's ships are stranded around the globe
  26. A day for turning parking spaces into pop-up parks
  27. How Game of Thrones' Emmy-award-winning battle scene was made
  28. Going bankrupt is a life changing decision – so why is the process to do it so easy?
  29. Yes, education funding has increased – but not everyone benefits
  30. Politics podcast: Don Watson on the rise of Trump
  31. Explainer: the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  32. Section 18C is an important part of a civilised society and no threat to free speech
  33. Why is the advertising industry still promoting violence against women?
  34. Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
  35. Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions
  36. First person: how the Paralympics changed my life
  37. We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
  38. Australia is locking up too many women but the UK offers a blueprint for a radical new approach
  39. Guide to the classics: Ovid's Metamorphoses and reading rape
  40. Confused? Don't worry because that can be a good thing
  41. People are 'blind' to plants, and that's bad news for conservation
  42. Australian Renewable Energy Agency saved but with reduced funding – experts react
  43. What is the role of a teacher?
  44. Gay Liberal senator denounces marriage plebiscite
  45. Australia's housing affordability problem explained in five historical steps
  46. Risky business: how companies are getting smart about climate change
  47. Government gets a deal for $6.3 billion in savings to pass parliament
  48. Here's why we need nurse-resident ratios in aged care homes
  49. Dickensian approach to residential tenants lingers in Australian law
  50. Australia's Health 2016 report card: experts respond
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