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letting the fox guard the henhouse

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
letting the fox guard the henhouseThe government has approved a parliamentary inquiry into press freedom – a step the major media organisations have dismissed as unnecessary.Bianca De Marchi/AAP

Fox guarding the henhouse; poacher in charge of the game-keeping. Choose your idiom, but appointing the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security to inquire into...

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from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark side

  • Written by: Emma Doolan, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark sideThe 'gothic' genre was once thought to be inapplicable to Australia. But there is a strong gothic tradition in Australian literature and film, seen in examples like Picnic at Hanging Rock. IMDB

In the popular imagination, the term “Gothic” evokes images of grim, crumbling castles, wild moors, jagged mountain peaks, and coffins creaking...

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No-take marine areas help fishers (and fish) far more than we thought

  • Written by: Dustin Marshall, Professor, Marine Evolutionary Ecology, Monash University
No-take marine areas help fishers (and fish) far more than we thoughtAn adult _Plectropomus leopardus_ from the Whitsundays.(Credit to David Wachenfeld, Triggerfish Images),

One hectare of ocean in which fishing is not allowed (a marine protected area) produces at least five times the amount of fish as an equivalent unprotected hectare, according to new research published today.

This outsized effect means marine...

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Smoking at record low in Australia, but the grim harvest of preventable heart disease continues

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
Smoking at record low in Australia, but the grim harvest of preventable heart disease continuesThe latest statistics show smoking's legacy when it comes to preventable deaths from cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke.from www.shutterstock.com

Smoking rates in Australia are at an all-time low. And yet, nearly 11,500 people are hospitalised from smoking-related cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease each year, while...

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  2. how human-built structures leave coastal ecosystems in the shadows
  3. Jacqui Lambie plays the Harradine game
  4. Father Frank Brennan on Israel Folau and religious freedom
  5. Victoria's commitment to a non-fatal strangulation offence will make a difference to vulnerable women
  6. From Shark Bay seagrass to Stone Age Scotland, we can now assess climate risks to World Heritage
  7. Trump and Kim are talking (again). But the leaders have yet to find real common ground
  8. To be a rising star in the space economy, Australia should also look to the East
  9. how poverty makes it hard to escape mental illness
  10. Ultra-low unemployment is in our grasp. How Philip Lowe became the governor who lifted our ambition
  11. it's Jeremy Hunt (who?) vs Boris Johnson (yes, really), with the future of the UK at stake
  12. 6 charts on the inner cities of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne
  13. Time will tell if this is a record summer for Greenland ice melt, but the pattern over the past 20 years is clear
  14. A new exhibition captures the magic and power of tattoos across cultures
  15. a history from the forbidden fruit to Facebook
  16. Morrison and Albanese to discuss inquiry into press freedom
  17. Back-to-back Reserve Bank cuts take interest rates to new low of 1%
  18. K-pop fans are creative, dedicated and social
  19. Had gestational diabetes? Here are 5 things to help lower your future risk of type 2 diabetes
  20. We need human oversight of machine decisions to stop robo-debt drama
  21. With China's swift rise as naval power, Australia needs to rethink how it defends itself
  22. Rate cuts might hurt, as well as help. What if this man didn't need to do as much?
  23. how studying body donors in the bush is changing forensic science
  24. Genetic risk tests are now widely available, but they aren't always useful – and could even be harmful
  25. a 67-year-old widow who uses Pokémon Go to reconnect with her city
  26. in a crowded Democratic field, who can beat Trump?
  27. Morrison 'very confident' of winning support for tax passage, as he looks to crossbench
  28. Stages 1 and 2 of the tax cuts should pass. But Stage 3 would return us to the 1950s
  29. ACTU president Michele O'Neil on John Setka and the government's anti-union legislation
  30. A radical new adaptation eviscerates the dominance of male voices in Wake in Fright
  31. At the G20, a focus on sideshow diplomacy and photo opps, with limited material gains
  32. Regardless of what the Federal Court says, you shouldn't put 'flushable' wipes down the loo
  33. why do we crave comfort food in winter?
  34. how can penguins stay warm in the freezing cold waters of Antarctica?
  35. Demolish your front fence. It would be an act of radical kindness
  36. Nearly 30% of kids experience sibling bullying – as either bully or victim
  37. 'Have you been feeling your spirit was sad?' Culture is key when assessing Indigenous Australians' mental health
  38. Thirty years on, the Fitzgerald Inquiry still looms large over Queensland politics
  39. To carve out a niche in space industries, Australia should focus on microgravity research rockets
  40. Dolphin researchers say NZ's proposed protection plan is flawed and misleading
  41. Buckle up. 2019-20 survey finds the economy weak and heading down, and that's ahead of surprises
  42. a winter deciduous Australian tree
  43. Michelle Grattan on Australians' attitudes to China, the G20 summit and the Israel Folau saga
  44. After defamation ruling, it's time Facebook provided better moderation tools
  45. Period pain is impacting women at school, uni and work. Let's be open about it
  46. How the 'Sydney School' changed postwar Australian architecture
  47. Academia can help humans and large carnivores coexist
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  50. how 19th century ideas influenced today's attitudes to women’s beauty

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