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Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents' rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implement

  • Written by: Yun-Hee Jeon, Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing, University of Sydney
Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents' rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implementShutterstock

One in four Australians who have died from COVID-19 is from an aged care facility.

These deaths show how fatal and fast the spread of the infection can be, and the extreme challenge of containing the virus once a positive case appears in aged care homes.

But there is also community pressure to ease social distancing rules for aged care...

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Why a trans-Tasman travel bubble makes a lot of sense for Australia and New Zealand

  • Written by: Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of South Australia
Why a trans-Tasman travel bubble makes a lot of sense for Australia and New ZealandBIANCA DE MARCHI/AAP

We are hearing increasing talk about a trans-Tasman “travel bubble”, which could see Australia and New Zealand open their borders to each other.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was a special guest at Australia’s national cabinet meeting on Tuesday, which discussed the possibility of setting up a...

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why shifting to judge-alone trials is a flawed approach to criminal justice

  • Written by: Felicity Gerry, Professor and Queen's Counsel, Deakin University
why shifting to judge-alone trials is a flawed approach to criminal justiceShutterstock

Last month, Victoria swiftly pushed through a bill introducing judge-only criminal trials as a short-term measure to tackle the absence of court sittings during the coronavirus lockdown.

The new law, which was cautiously welcomed by the state Criminal Bar Association, puts Victoria in line with other states that already have judge-only...

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Dorothea Tanning - an unusual surrealist with an unique female gaze

  • Written by: Victoria Carruthers, Senior lecturer, Australian Catholic University
Dorothea Tanning - an unusual surrealist with an unique female gazeVoltage (1942)Dorothea Tanning Estate

Woman? All they knew for sure was that they desired her. Désir, a gigantic five-letter word.

So commented American artist Dorothea Tanning recalling her time in the surrealist milieu of New York in the 1940s.

Dorothea Tanning - an unusual surrealist with an unique female gazeOn a New York rooftop in 1938.Dorothea Tanning Estate

She had met German artist Max Ernst one...

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