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Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women

  • Written by: Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Journalism, University of Canberra
imageDomestic violence victim Jessica Silva, who fatally stabbed her ex-partner James Polkinghorne. AAP/Joel Carrett

Until recently, domestic violence against women and children was publicly invisible. Today, media coverage is widespread and a landmark Australian study draws our attention to the “invisibility” of perpetrators in coverage....

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Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits

  • Written by: Beth Webster, Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology

Back in the good old days of the 19th century when market economies oscillated between boom and prolonged recession, economists believed that nations were like households. They had to balance their budgets. If they spent more in one year they would have to save more the next to pay off the debt. Sound advice for a household. But not so for an...

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Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu

  • Written by: James McCaw, Associate Professor in Mathematical Biology, University of Melbourne
imageComputer modelling can help in the fight against the spread of disease.Shutterstock/racorn

The latest in our Computing turns 60 series, to mark the 60th anniversary of the first computer in an Australian university, looks at how close we came to flu pandemic.

We usually consider the scientific study of infection by a virus, bacteria or parasite as...

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Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned

  • Written by: Cory Zanoni, Community Manager, The Conversation
imageMichelle Grattan In Conversation with Politics + Society Editor Amanda DunnTodd Shilton/The Conversation, CC BY-SA

More than 500 people packed a free public event in Melbourne last night to hear The Conversation’s Political Correspondent Michelle Grattan discuss the federal election and take questions from the floor.

Despite a full house at...

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  2. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  3. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  4. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  5. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  6. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  7. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  8. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  9. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
  10. Shedding the 'victim narrative' for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride
  11. A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
  12. How the Hobbits kept their tools as they shrank into island life
  13. Google's other bets' losing streak: Nest and Verily's problematic Silicon Valley CEOs
  14. China and the US: when worlds collide
  15. Clinton clinches Democratic nomination after big wins in New Jersey and California
  16. How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
  17. New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians
  18. Weekly Dose: methotrexate, the anti-inflammatory drug that can kill if taken daily
  19. Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?
  20. Democracy goes missing in action as politicians obfuscate, avoid and patronise
  21. Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet
  22. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in Australian living standards since records began?
  23. No big deal: there is little to fear from nanoparticles in food
  24. Computing changed the 'flow' of watching television
  25. Google wants to tap the second golden age of television
  26. Honour thy parents, lead thy nation: Turnbull and Shorten play to the family feeling
  27. Coal's formation is a window on an ancient world
  28. Business Briefing: how does Australia's policy costing body, the PBO, compare?
  29. Election 2016: the issues in non-metropolitan Australia
  30. The f-word enters the campaign and trips up both major parties
  31. How Australians Die: cause #3 - dementia (Alzheimer's)
  32. It's time for a new age of Enlightenment: why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell its story
  33. Explainer: How to find an exoplanet (part 1)
  34. Turnbull proposes an election debate 'in the media of our time'
  35. Sydney's wild weather shows home-owners are increasingly at risk
  36. Solved mystery of the deep-sea mushroom just raises new questions
  37. Ivan Sen's Goldstone: a taut, layered exploration of what echoes in the silences
  38. Computing helps with the complex design of modern architecture
  39. With friends like these: just how close are the Liberal Party and IPA?
  40. 'Antibiotic stewardship' to keep superbugs at bay just isn't happening
  41. Massive storms are pumping pollution into our oceans: time to clean up our cities
  42. Flood deaths are avoidable: don't go in the water
  43. Australian media deals with China – blind spot, or troubling hypocrisy?
  44. Election FactCheck: is crime getting worse in Australia?
  45. Donate to secure trusted information
  46. Where could Australia genuinely innovate?
  47. Lockout laws repeat centuries-old mistake of denying value of cities as messy places
  48. The vaudeville, impact and substance of political name-calling
  49. Safety – or profit? The booming business of CCTV and Safer Streets
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Portable Toilet Hygiene Standards Explained: Clean vs Sanitised vs Disinfected

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