Police informers are critical to the gathering of criminal intelligence.from shutterstock.comThe police-informer relationship has come under scrutiny in the case of Lawyer X – a barrister who acted as counsel for a number of prominent criminal defendants. Victoria police initially reported Lawyer X had been registered as an informant between...
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss the political implications of the royal commission report into banking, and the suspense as parliament returns around the refugee medical transfer legislation.
Michelle Grattan owns shares in banks and other financial institutions...
For many of us, the reality of Australian homes now sits many storeys up in the sky. High-rise apartment buildings have sprouted across the nation’s cities. In recent weeks – on Christmas Eve at the Opal Tower building in Sydney and on February 4 at the Neo200 Building in Melbourne – that reality has turned into the nightmare for...
More than 620 million years of evolution separate crows from humans, but the birds show that they can plan three steps ahead.Romana Gruber, CC BY-NDMy ideas about animal behaviour were turned upside down in 2002 when I watched Betty, a New Caledonian crow, fashion a hook from a piece of wire and use it to pull a small container with meat from a...
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