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To protect press freedom, we need more public outrage – and an overhaul of our laws

  • Written by: Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, The University of Queensland
To protect press freedom, we need more public outrage – and an overhaul of our lawsThis week's police raids have forced us to think again about the role of the media in a democracy.David Gray/AAP

A few days ago, Waleed Aly asked a not-so-rhetorical question in The Sydney Morning Herald. He wondered how many Australians were worried about the fact that the Australian Federal Police had spent a good portion of this week raiding the...

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This centuries-old river red gum is a local legend – here's why it's worth fighting for

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University

Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au.

In Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, his titular character famously said:

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

In the midst of a global extinction crisis, the Lorax’s call...

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Leave pill prescribing to GPs, not pharmacists, for the sake of women's health

  • Written by: Mark Wilson, Associate professor, University of Wollongong
Leave pill prescribing to GPs, not pharmacists, for the sake of women's healthContraception forms an integral element of health care for women. From shutterstock.com

Buying the contraceptive pill from the pharmacy without a prescription, as is being considered by Australia’s drug regulator, might be convenient for women or even save the health system money. But it risks women’s health for a number of reasons.

After...

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Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster

  • Written by: Gabriele Gratton, Associate Professor of Economics and Scientia Fellow, UNSW
Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disasterOur standard economic model says when labour is scarce, the cost of labour should increase. But something is broken. This is not happening. www.shutterstock.com

Exactly two weeks before the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates to a record low, the bank’s head, Philip Lowe, outlined a predicament to the Economic Society of Australia.

It...

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