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Danger close? The battle over the meaning of Long Tan

  • Written by: Tom Sear, Industry Fellow, UNSW Canberra Cyber, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW
Danger close? The battle over the meaning of Long TanTravis Fimmel and Jay Kiriona in Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019). Jasin Boland - © Danger Close Production

Danger Close is a new Australian film depicting one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam war: The Battle of Long Tan. “Danger Close” is a military phrase used in battle when forward and directing fire...

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Australia's tax office can use global data leaks to pursue multinationals, High Court rules

  • Written by: Ann Kayis-Kumar, Senior Lecturer, UNSW
Australia's tax office can use global data leaks to pursue multinationals, High Court rulesGlencore's lawyers argued anything about the company in the Paradise Papers was "privileged" and the tax office should be prevented from using that information.www.shutterstock.com

Can something that has been seen be unseen?

It’s an axiom of the internet age that it can’t – and though the world’s biggest mining company, Glenc...

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Gold rush-era rules to stop mining pollution are still in use – but they’re failing

  • Written by: Susan Lawrence, Professor, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University

This is an edited extract from SLUDGE: disaster on Victoria’s goldmines.


Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, 6 November 2015

Wet, orange mud covers everything: streets, houses, cars, animals, trees, fields. The violent force of a torrent of mud has overturned cars and left them hovering on top of buildings. It has torn the roofs off houses and pushed...

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Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours

  • Written by: Lisa Eckstein, Senior Lecturer in Law and Medicine, University of Tasmania
Patients have rights. Here's how to use yoursWhat rights do you have when discussing medical treatments or test results with your doctor?from www.shutterstock.com

Working your way around the health-care system can be overwhelming. This is especially hard when care takes place in health systems under stress.

However as a patient, you have rights about how you’re treated. This includes not...

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  1. Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump's ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flows
  2. what is China's United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?
  3. Unwanted sexual attention plagues young women going out at night
  4. How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it
  5. Eleanor Anne Ormerod, the self taught agricultural entomologist who tasted a live newt
  6. why plants don't simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air
  7. Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison's climate policy
  8. Morrison needs to take control of China policy
  9. Survey reveals a third of NZ gun owners distrust gun lobby
  10. Hong Kong fears losing its rule of law; the rest of the world should worry too
  11. how genes act differently in male and female brains
  12. young Indigenous Australians want to be heard – but will we listen?
  13. Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity
  14. on the 'creeping crisis' in the public service
  15. Memory and attention difficulties are often part of a normal life
  16. Why an Australian charter of rights is a matter of national urgency
  17. where did rats first come from?
  18. Snow at the footy? Just how unusual was last weekend’s weather?
  19. Contemporary and medieval women's voices collide in My Dearworthy Darling
  20. coal is on the road to becoming completely uninsurable
  21. Queenslanders are among our heaviest drinkers on nights out, and changing that culture is a challenge
  22. How Indigenous fashion designers are taking control and challenging the notion of the heroic, lone genius
  23. Red tape in aged care shouldn't force staff to prioritise ticking boxes over residents' outcomes
  24. why don't people fall out of bed when they are sleeping?
  25. To restore trust in government, we need to reinvent how the public service works
  26. it’s time whistleblowers had better protection
  27. Australia has too few home-grown experts on the Chinese Communist Party. That's a problem
  28. helping former Colombian guerrilla fighters to become citizen scientists
  29. Here's why there should be no gestational limits for abortion
  30. you're probably worse at it than you realise
  31. Australia urgently needs real sustainable agriculture policy
  32. Dutton directive gives journalists more breathing space, but not whistleblowers
  33. If you have a low ATAR, you could earn more doing a VET course than a uni degree – if you're a man
  34. Here's how tech giants profit from invading our privacy, and how we can start taking it back
  35. Chinese propaganda goes tech-savvy to reach a new generation
  36. Why women are more likely to have dodgy hip implants or other medical devices
  37. Environmental destruction is a war crime, but it's almost impossible to fall foul of the laws
  38. Lessons from Queensland on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy
  39. It's not in the 'national interest' for the backbench to shut up about China
  40. Government tells police to lay off journalists in investigating leaks
  41. Governor Lowe points to even lower rates
  42. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the High Court's free speech ruling
  43. The meat-eating bladderwort traps aquatic animals at lightning speed
  44. what does this mean, and what are the challenges?
  45. Why is the Australian energy regulator suing wind farms – and why now?
  46. What is sepsis and how can it be treated?
  47. Millions of Muslims prepare to perform the hajj amid calls for a boycott
  48. Grandmother's case raises question whether NZ should adopt defence of 'diminished responsibility'
  49. Ooshies – a cautionary toy story about cashing in on childhood innocence
  50. Vegan food's sustainability claims need to give the full picture

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