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Paladin contract secrecy highlights our broken refugee system

  • Written by: Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
Paladin contract secrecy highlights our broken refugee systemPNG not only wants to end the Paladin security contract on Manus Island, it's demanding Australia find a permanent solution to the refugee crisis.Joel Carrett/AAP

Nearly six years into the revival of its offshore detention policy, Australia’s government is facing a story of corporate and administrative intrigue that highlights the utter...

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Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too far

  • Written by: Rebecca Williamson, Research Officer, Australian National University
Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too farTomsickova Tatyana/Shutterstock

Sydney Morning Herald reporter Jacqueline Maley evoked the spectre of the Orwellian surveillance state recently when discussing how library staff had been implicated in the ParentsNext program. Maley reported that private providers contracted to run the program phoned libraries or local pools to check on...

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Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work

  • Written by: Jessica C Lai, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington
Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it workMost consumers are unaware that the Health Star Rating system is compensatory, and that one negative nutritional attribute, such as high sugar, can be cancelled out by a positive attribute like fibre. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

Unhealthy diets cause multiple physical and mental health problems. To help consumers make healthier choices,...

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a stylish, enjoyable, historically informed opera premiere

  • Written by: Zoltan Szabo, Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney
a stylish, enjoyable, historically informed opera premiereFernando Guimarâes and Brenton Spiteri in The Return of Ulysses.Brett Boardman

Review: The return of Ulysses, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney.

Claudio Monteverdi entered the 73rd year of his life when he composed his opera, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, or The Return of Ulysses. (He wrote yet another opera three years later …) But his...

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  1. How to answer the argument that Australia's emissions are too small to make a difference
  2. Below zero is ‘reverse’. How the Reserve Bank would make quantitative easing work
  3. Five films not to miss from the 2019 Sydney Film Festival
  4. How advertising can repurpose itself to serve cities in more sustainable ways
  5. CSIRO Australian National Outlook 2019
  6. the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
  7. what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
  8. education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
  9. forget court action – you won't win
  10. what is 'hybrid warfare' and what is meant by the 'grey zone'?
  11. Pressure builds with more protests in Hong Kong, but what's the end game?
  12. There's a looming waste crisis from Australia's solar energy boom
  13. who came up with the first letters?
  14. With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending
  15. how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
  16. We asked people to do climate change maths. Their answers depended on their politics
  17. What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job
  18. Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous
  19. More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help
  20. how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services
  21. The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
  22. Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
  23. Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
  24. Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
  25. Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
  26. Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
  27. Michelle Grattan on John Setka, press freedom, Adani approval and tax
  28. Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
  29. Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
  30. what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soar
  31. How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
  32. is white meat as bad for your cholesterol levels as red meat?
  33. the all-knowing narrator in Kim Scott's Taboo
  34. City temperatures and city economics, a hidden relationship between sun and wind and profits
  35. Children with autism may use memory differently. Understanding this could help us teach them
  36. Sick with the flu? Here's why you feel so bad
  37. Barry Humphries' humour is now history – that's the fate of topical, satirical comedy
  38. the RBA's marching orders are no longer realistic. They'll have to change
  39. Adani is cleared to start digging its coal mine – six key questions answered
  40. Why too many fearless people on a team make collaboration less likely
  41. Racial abuse is rife in junior sports – and little is being done to address it
  42. 6 actions Australia's government can take right now to target online racism
  43. The battle to stare down the defiant John Setka
  44. Undocumented plant extinctions are a big problem in Australia – here’s why they go unnoticed
  45. Hong Kong in crisis over relationship with China – and there does not appear to be a good solution
  46. A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
  47. Our culture affects the way we look after ourselves. It should shape the health care we receive, too
  48. a journey through the inferno to robots and extinction
  49. NT wants to end 'naming and shaming' of juvenile offenders, sparking press freedom debate
  50. Will the Coalition's approach to gender equality actually improve women's lives?

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