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Four laws that need urgent reform to protect both national security and press freedom

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Four laws that need urgent reform to protect both national security and press freedomWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

In a perfect world, Australia would introduce constitutional protections for freedom of the press. But since the chances of that are next to zero, it might be more productive to look instead at what might be done to make the existing web of secrecy laws less repressive.

As a starting point, four laws in...

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Netflix is opening its first Australian HQ. What does this mean for the local screen industry?

  • Written by: Ramon Lobato, Senior research fellow, RMIT University
Netflix is opening its first Australian HQ. What does this mean for the local screen industry?Charlotte Best in the Australian Netflix original drama Tidelands (2018). Research last year found that only around 1% of the Netflix Australia catalogue was Australian content. Hoodlum Entertainment

Netflix officially entered the Australian market in 2015, and now reaches 50% of Australia’s adult population. Despite its remarkable success,...

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Sport is full of conspiracy theories – Chris Froome’s horrific cycling crash is just the latest example

  • Written by: Mathew Marques, Lecturer in Social Psychology, La Trobe University

The recent crash of four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome put his attempt for a record-equalling 5th title on hold. (The 2019 Tour de France starts on July 6.)

But the spectacular, career-limiting smash also fuelled conspiracy theories surrounding the events leading up to and following the incident.

Conspiracy theories in sport are...

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50 years after Australia's historic 'equal pay' decision, the legacy of 'women's work' remains

  • Written by: Leonora Risse, Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University

June 19, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Australia’s industrial relations system endorsing the principle of “equal pay for equal work”.

Yet, five decades on, a gender pay gap remains.

The 1969 decision was a breakthrough, but also highlighted the problem of putting principle into practice, given a legacy of past decisions being...

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  2. What do Aboriginal Australians want from their aged care system? Community connection is number one
  3. Setka gets backing from group of unions as split deepens
  4. US-Iran conflict escalates again, raising the threat of another war in the Middle East
  5. Paladin contract secrecy highlights our broken refugee system
  6. Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too far
  7. Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work
  8. a stylish, enjoyable, historically informed opera premiere
  9. How to answer the argument that Australia's emissions are too small to make a difference
  10. Below zero is ‘reverse’. How the Reserve Bank would make quantitative easing work
  11. Five films not to miss from the 2019 Sydney Film Festival
  12. How advertising can repurpose itself to serve cities in more sustainable ways
  13. CSIRO Australian National Outlook 2019
  14. the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
  15. what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
  16. education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
  17. forget court action – you won't win
  18. what is 'hybrid warfare' and what is meant by the 'grey zone'?
  19. Pressure builds with more protests in Hong Kong, but what's the end game?
  20. There's a looming waste crisis from Australia's solar energy boom
  21. who came up with the first letters?
  22. With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending
  23. how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
  24. We asked people to do climate change maths. Their answers depended on their politics
  25. What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job
  26. Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous
  27. More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help
  28. how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services
  29. The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
  30. Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
  31. Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
  32. Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
  33. Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
  34. Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
  35. Michelle Grattan on John Setka, press freedom, Adani approval and tax
  36. Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
  37. Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
  38. what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soar
  39. How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
  40. is white meat as bad for your cholesterol levels as red meat?
  41. the all-knowing narrator in Kim Scott's Taboo
  42. City temperatures and city economics, a hidden relationship between sun and wind and profits
  43. Children with autism may use memory differently. Understanding this could help us teach them
  44. Sick with the flu? Here's why you feel so bad
  45. Barry Humphries' humour is now history – that's the fate of topical, satirical comedy
  46. the RBA's marching orders are no longer realistic. They'll have to change
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