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As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution

  • Written by: Sophie Russell, Research Associate, UNSW

The over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is one of our nation’s most significant human rights concerns.

Data released last week show the number of people imprisoned in Australia has continued to rise. The rate of Indigenous incarceration has increased by 45% since 2008.

It is a national shame that Aboriginal...

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Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space

  • Written by: Douglas Bock, Director of Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO
Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar spaceBoth Voyagers are now in interstellar space.NASA

NASA has confirmed that Voyager 2 has joined its twin to become only the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space – where the Sun’s flow of material and magnetic field no longer affect its surroundings. The slightly faster Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in August 2012.

Voyager 2...

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did more people buy their seventh home than bought their first home last year?

  • Written by: Stephen Whelan, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney

Last year, more people bought their seventh home than those buying their first.

– Queensland Minister for Housing and Public Works Mick de Brenni, media statement, November 22, 2018

Housing affordability remains a serious issue in many cities across Australia.

Federal Labor has promised to make negative gearing reforms if elected in 2019. In...

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How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues

  • Written by: Lee Smales, Associate Professor, Finance, University of Western Australia
How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some cluesThe Bitcoin bubble is perhaps the most extreme speculative bubble since the late 19th century.Shutterstock

Nearly 170 years before the invention of Bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit”. Millions of people, he wrote, “become...

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  1. Going travelling? Don't forget insurance (and to read the fine print)
  2. Where do dreams come from?
  3. should I lie to my children about Santa?
  4. Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotely
  5. Human rights in 2018 – ten issues that made headlines
  6. How researchers assess whether medications work
  7. the power of a symbol
  8. The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says so
  9. forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
  10. The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security
  11. Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018
  12. The problems with small satellites – and what Australia's Space Agency can do to help
  13. Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth
  14. The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
  15. how working parents manage school holidays and their jobs
  16. Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content
  17. Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter
  18. love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
  19. Men get postnatal depression too, and as the mother's main support, they need help
  20. Darwin port's sale is a blueprint for China's future economic expansion
  21. 35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us
  22. Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?
  23. Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war
  24. Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger
  25. Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about
  26. Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring
  27. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  28. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
  29. Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it
  30. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  31. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  32. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  33. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  34. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  35. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  36. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  37. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  38. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  39. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  40. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  41. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  42. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  43. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  44. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  45. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  46. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  47. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  48. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  49. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  50. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery

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