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Book: In the name of security

  • Written by: Johan Lidberg, Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
Book: In the name of securityA new book asks how we navigate the line between freedom of information and national security.Shutterstock

The following is an edited extract from a new book by Johan Lidberg and Denis Muller (eds), In the name of security: Secrecy, surveillance and journalism, published by Anthem Press.


The dramatic increase in national security laws has confronted...

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Tinkering can achieve a lot. Politics isn't broken

  • Written by: Emily Millane, Research Fellow and PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Tinkering can achieve a lot. Politics isn't brokenIt pays to pay attention to small changes. They end up determining what works.Shutterstock

One of the key themes in politics this year has been that the political system isn’t delivering. In the economy, we are told we need big “reform”, like in the days when Keating floated the dollar, Hawke slashed tariffs and Howard taxed goods...

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does Victoria have Australia's highest rate of crime?

  • Written by: Don Weatherburn, Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW

But sadly, under Daniel Andrews Victoria has won the unenviable title as the state with the country’s highest rate of crime.

– Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party Matthew Guy, speaking at the party’s election campaign launch, 28 October, 2018

The Victorian Liberal Party has promised to take a tough stance on crime if elected on...

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How to tackle NZ's teacher shortage and better reflect student diversity

  • Written by: Ruth Boyask, Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Education, Auckland University of Technology
How to tackle NZ's teacher shortage and better reflect student diversityNew Zealand faces a teacher shortage and the government has responded with an urgent drive to recruit teachers from overseas.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

New Zealand is facing a major teacher shortage. At least 850 new teaching staff are needed to guarantee that all primary and secondary school children have a teacher next year.

Teachers are...

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  1. Some diseases, like mine, deteriorate rapidly – disability services need to keep up
  2. Why do people grow to certain sizes?
  3. How Australian cities are adapting to the Asian Century
  4. The US midterm elections are being billed as a referendum on Trump, but it's not that simple
  5. Dressing up for Melbourne Cup Day, from a racehorse point of view
  6. The great movie scenes: The Matrix and bullet-time
  7. Better data would help crack the drought insurance problem
  8. Bullying and harassment of health workers endangers patient safety
  9. how the pension and super could leave you behind
  10. Stringybark is tough as boots (and gave us the word 'Eucalyptus')
  11. How our red blood cells keep evolving to fight malaria
  12. The Uncomformity festival embraces the power and peculiarity of Tasmania's wild west
  13. Michelle Grattan on Turnbull and Morrison, Shorten's bank idea, and children off Nauru
  14. There's a reason your child wants to read the same book over and over again
  15. How Eurasia's Tianshan mountains set a stage that changed the world
  16. As she prepares to leave politics, Germany's Angela Merkel has left her mark at home and abroad
  17. Anne Summers' new memoir and the bitter struggle over memory narratives of feminism
  18. Australia has eliminated rubella – but that doesn't mean it can't come back
  19. how speculative fiction gained literary respectability
  20. Five projects that are harnessing big data for good
  21. Making developments green doesn’t help with inequality
  22. States and territories have improved integrity measures, but Commonwealth lags far behind
  23. New Caledonia's independence referendum, and how it could impact the region
  24. Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasure
  25. Now Malcolm Turnbull is the sniper at the window
  26. What does the future newsroom look like?
  27. Anne Summers on #MeToo and women in politics
  28. Earth’s wilderness is vanishing, and just a handful of nations can save it
  29. Tick-tock – for healthy mums and kids, dad’s age counts
  30. Abolish stamp duty. The ACT shows the rest of us how to tax property
  31. how using everyday items for play benefits kids
  32. To tackle inequality, we must start in the labour market
  33. What are ‘decodable readers’ and do they work?
  34. Phubbing (phone snubbing) happens more in the bedroom than when socialising with friends
  35. Why are unions so unhappy? An economic explanation of the Change the Rules campaign
  36. After a deadly month for domestic violence, the message doesn't appear to be getting through
  37. Cricket Australia's culture problem is it still doesn't think fans are stakeholders in the game
  38. Ideas of home and ownership in Australia might explain the neglect of renters’ rights
  39. State governments can transform Australia’s energy policy from major fail to reliable success
  40. Your poo is (mostly) alive. Here's what's in it
  41. How new spinal injury treatments help some people to walk again
  42. What teeth can tell about the lives and environments of ancient humans and Neanderthals
  43. Facebook delivers traffic but no money for news media
  44. the protest songs of New Caledonia's independence referendum
  45. While I Was Waiting captures the tragedy of the Syrian civil war in Damascus
  46. what any country can and can't do in Antarctica, in the name of science
  47. Traditional culture may help Indigenous households manage money better
  48. Food fraud, the centuries-old problem that won't go away
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  50. National interest test for research grants could further erode pure research

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