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Human rights in 2018 – ten issues that made headlines

  • Written by: Louise Chappell, Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute; Professor of Law, UNSW
Human rights in 2018 – ten issues that made headlinesRohingya women and children being moved on a truck south of Yangon, Myanmar.AAP/EPA/Lynn Bo Bo

On December 10, the world marks 70 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Regrettably, instead of the anniversary signalling the enduring impact of human rights, some are fearing the “end of human rights”. Here...

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How researchers assess whether medications work

  • Written by: Yasmine Probst, Senior lecturer, School of Medicine, University of Wollongong
How researchers assess whether medications workEar infections are no fun. The OSTRICH clinical trial looked at whether oral steroid medications might help. from www.shutterstock.com

This article is in the series This is research, where we ask academics to share and discuss open access articles that reveal important aspects of science. Today’s piece explains how clinical trials assess...

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the power of a symbol

  • Written by: Bronwen Neil, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University
the power of a symbolThe Parthenon is visible for miles around from the Acropolis (citadel) on which it stands. Shutterstock

The Parthenon is one of the most famous and recognisable buildings in the world. Designed as a testimony to Athenian greatness, visible miles from the Acropolis (the citadel) on which it stands, the Parthenon still stands proudly among the...

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The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says so

  • Written by: Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says soVictoria's Loy Yang brown coal power station at night. Breaking up generation companies might do little to bring prices down.Shutterstock

Who wouldn’t want cheaper power?

And who wouldn’t enjoy a bit of a stoush between the big bad generators and the government, trying to break them up on our behalf?

Even if it was largely tangential to...

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  1. forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
  2. The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security
  3. Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018
  4. The problems with small satellites – and what Australia's Space Agency can do to help
  5. Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth
  6. The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
  7. how working parents manage school holidays and their jobs
  8. Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content
  9. Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter
  10. love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
  11. Men get postnatal depression too, and as the mother's main support, they need help
  12. Darwin port's sale is a blueprint for China's future economic expansion
  13. 35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us
  14. Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?
  15. Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war
  16. Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger
  17. Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about
  18. Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring
  19. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  20. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
  21. Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it
  22. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  23. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  24. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  25. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  26. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  27. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  28. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  29. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  30. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  31. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  32. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  33. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  34. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  35. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  36. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  37. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  38. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  39. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  40. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  41. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  42. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  43. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  44. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  45. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  46. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  47. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  48. how cities can make room for water
  49. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  50. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system

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