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Evidence of NT detention centre abuse was there for all to see

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

It is surely extraordinary it took a Four Corners program, excellent as it was, to force the attention of Northern Territory and federal politicians on to the scandal of the NT detention system when most of the evidence had been before their eyes for a long time.

The tear-gassing, “hooding” with “spit masks”, holding of...

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Backstories, Intimacies and the Ghostbusters Dilemma

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Two things stand out about seeing Sisters last year. One, the armed guard stationed forebodingly in the foyer. (I was in the US, Star Wars opened that same weekend and cinemas seemingly had been Nostradamus-ing about which films might send white boys troppo).

Two. The sheer amount of posing that the two female leads engaged in. Granted, they looked...

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Is it back to the future for human origins science or just a case of science media misleading us again?

  • Written by: Darren Curnoe, ARC Future Fellow and Director of the Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre (PANGEA), UNSW Australia

The falling quality of journalism is accelerating with the looming death of traditional newspapers and magazines.

Science reporting like so many specialist areas is also a victim of collapsing newspaper revenues and the rapid demise of the ‘newspaper business model’ - a trend that’s playing out globally.

On top of this, the...

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Four Corners: why did the two previous investigations have no impact on changing this abuse?

  • Written by: Brian Stout, Associate Professor of Social Work & Deputy Dean, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University
imageThe forthcoming royal commission should bring recommendations that could improve the future treatment of young people in juvenile detention.AAP/Four Corners

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s prompt and decisive response to Monday night’s Four Corners program on the torture of young people at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre is welcome....

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