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Flights suspended and vital questions remain after second Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash within five months

  • Written by: Geoffrey Dell, Associate Professor/Discipline Leader Accident Investigation and Forensics, CQUniversity Australia

Australia’s decision to suspend all Boeing 737 Max 8 flights in and out of the country appears to be a prudent precaution.

It comes after two fatal accidents overseas involving the aircraft. On Sunday, 157 people died when Ethiopian Airlines flight JT610crashed minutes after takeoff. In October last year 189 people died when Lion Air’s f...

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Why Sally Challen's appeal is not a win for women victims of coercive control

  • Written by: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
Why Sally Challen's appeal is not a win for women victims of coercive controlCoercive control is a form of domestic violence based on a subtle but persistent form of emotional and psychological abuse. from shutterstock.com

In 2011, Sally Challen was convicted of murdering her husband. She was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment, which was reduced to 18 on appeal.

On February 28, 2019 three judges of the England and...

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Becoming more like WhatsApp won't solve Facebook’s woes – here's why

  • Written by: Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology
Becoming more like WhatsApp won't solve Facebook’s woes – here's whyAlthough WhatsApp is described as en encrypted messaging service, it's not as secure as you might think. rachit tank / unsplash, CC BY

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared last week that the company would shift away from open networks that embody “the town square” towards private, encrypted services that are more like “the...

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In Manus, theatre delivers home truths that can't be dodged

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
In Manus, theatre delivers home truths that can't be dodgedIranian theatre company Verbatim Theatre Group performed Manus as part of this year's Adelaide Festival.Mohammad Sadeq Zarjouyan

Review: Manus, Adelaide Festival, March 8


How to review a play whose relationship with matters of fact is so serious and politically culpable it overwhelms the critical distinctions that might normally be used to judge it?...

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