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Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaignThe integrity of Australia's election process is under unprecedented pressure during this election.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

The integrity of Australia’s electoral processes is under unprecedented challenge in this federal election.

The campaign has already been marred by fake news, political exploitation of social media...

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What's the school cleaner's name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcing

  • Written by: Frances Flanagan, Researcher, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
What's the school cleaner's name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcingIn Victoria in 1992, every government-employed school cleaner was terminated overnight.from shutterstock.com

This is an edited extract from The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. It is a little longer than most published on The Conversation.


It is supposed to be a test of character. An A+ student sits down to the final exam of his...

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Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday weekThe last time inflation was zero the Reserve Bank cut rates twice. It'll get the chance on May 7.Shutterstock

What do US pizza executive Herman Cain, US conservative commentator Stephen Moore, US Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Australia’s Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe have in common?

More than you might think.

The immediate issue for Lowe...

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how Western attitudes towards Islam have changed

  • Written by: Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
how Western attitudes towards Islam have changedMuslim clerics and members of the Pakistani Christian minority light candles to commemorate the victims of this week's bomb blasts in Sri Lanka. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks.Rahat Dar/AAP

Less than a week after the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001, US President George W. Bush gave a remarkable...

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