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Did the Census really suffer a denial-of-service 'attack'?

  • Written by: Mike Johnstone, Security Researcher, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, Edith Cowan University
imageWhat really caused the Census servers to crash?Shutterstock

Last night, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) closed the 2016 Census website. No explanation was given at the time, except for a message on the page saying “the system is very busy at the moment”.

This morning, the ABS’s head statistician, David Kalisch, announced t...

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Nauru abuse reports warrant urgent action to protect children in offshore detention

  • Written by: Khanh Hoang, Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
imageWhat are Australia’s international obligations in relation to its offshore processing centres?AAP/Mick Tsikas

The Guardian Australia has released more than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Australia’s offshore processing centre on Nauru. These reports cover the period from May 2013 to October 2015. They document numerous incidents of...

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Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat

  • Written by: Alexandra Crosby, Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Design Studies, University of Technology Sydney
imageArthur Bolkas and David Woods in The Chat, in which the fate of a prisoner who has breached parole is decided.

As the ethics of punishment are debated in mainstream media, statistics, images and unanswerable questions circulate. Post sentence detention of terrorists and the fate of Indigenous children in detention are just two of the issues...

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People have lost faith in privatisation and it's easy to see why

  • Written by: John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland

From the viewpoint of ordinary Australians, privatisation is a policy that has consistently failed but is remorselessly pushed by the political elite. It is little surprise that voters are turning to populism in response.

“Privatisation” is a term that covers a multitude of policies. These range from the outright sale of government...

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  1. Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack
  2. With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?
  3. Weekly Dose: triptans, drugs that relieve migraine but only if taken at the right time
  4. Drowning by averages: did the ABS miscalculate the Census load?
  5. Explainer: what is age-related macular degeneration?
  6. Andrew Bolt and ACMA: should 'hyperbole' get in the way of accuracy?
  7. Census website cracks after 'malicious' attack by hackers
  8. Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
  9. Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
  10. Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?
  11. More than fun: capitalising sport’s social goods
  12. Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics
  13. Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?
  14. Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam
  15. ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census
  16. The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night
  17. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  18. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees
  19. Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade
  20. Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later
  21. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  22. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected
  23. Horton wins by naming the elephant in the room at Rio Olympics
  24. Smart cities: does this mean more transport disruptions?
  25. Why credit rating agencies' economic advice shouldn't be trusted
  26. Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
  27. Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
  28. Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team
  29. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  30. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  31. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  32. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  33. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  34. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  35. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  36. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  37. Does racism make us sick?
  38. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  39. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  40. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  41. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  42. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?
  43. Can you 'teach' workers to be more emotionally resilient?
  44. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
  45. Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes
  46. The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull
  47. Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions
  48. Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050
  49. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
  50. What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?

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