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Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housing

  • Written by: Katrina Raynor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, University of Melbourne
Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housingThe Melbourne Apartments Project developed by the Barnett Foundation offered 28 units to households living within 4km of the site and willing to leave their social housing.Barnett Foundation, Author provided

Social housing is in crisis in Australia, with almost 200,000 people on waiting lists. Social housing made up 8% of all housing stock in...

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Facebook hack reveals the perils of using a single account to log in to other services

  • Written by: Mike Johnstone, Security Researcher, Associate Professor in Resilient Systems, Edith Cowan University
Facebook hack reveals the perils of using a single account to log in to other servicesThere are several flow-on effects from the recent Facebook hack. Shutterstock

Facebook announced on Friday that its engineering team had discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. Due to a flaw in Facebook’s code, hackers were able to take over an account and use it in the same way you would if you had logged into the...

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Would a better tsunami warning system have saved lives in Sulawesi?

  • Written by: Jane Cunneen, Research Fellow, Curtin University

The death toll from the magnitude 7.5 earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck near Palu, Indonesia, on Friday evening continues to rise, with several regions yet to be reached by rescue teams.

But the size and location of the earthquake should not have come as a surprise. Palu is situated at the end of a long, narrow bay which is the surface...

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Explainer: what is Helicobacter pylori?

  • Written by: Phil Sutton, Group Leader/Snr Princ Research Fellow, Mucosal Immunology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Explainer: what is Helicobacter pylori?Helicobacter pylori normally infect the stomachs of children where they can stay forever, if undetected.Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock

In 1982, two Australians – Robin Warren and Barry Marshall – presented their first observations of strange bacteria living in the human stomach. They went on to propose that these bacteria caused a...

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  2. How two 1990s discoveries have led to (some) cured cancers, and a Nobel Prize
  3. Ten photos that changed how we see human rights
  4. Relax. The divide between the taxed and the 'taxed-nots' isn't new and doesn't buy elections
  5. Labor to hold its own 'hearings' for bank victims
  6. Why a national apology and redress for discharged LGBT service members matters
  7. Our fast-growing cities and their people are proving to be remarkably adaptable
  8. rivers were the highways of Australia's colonial history
  9. The NDIS hasn't made much difference to carers' opportunities for paid work
  10. A new national set of priorities for VET would make great social and economic sense
  11. Satellite measurements of slow ground movements may provide a better tool for earthquake forecasting
  12. Why the media needs to be more responsible for how it links Islam and Islamist terrorism
  13. Three simple steps to fix our banks
  14. Retraction of a journal article doesn't make its findings false
  15. Hayne holds fire, but the banks' day of reckoning is coming
  16. The NDIS is delivering 'reasonable and necessary' supports for some, but others are missing out
  17. Women’s surfing riding wave towards gender equity
  18. what is Pentecostalism, and how might it influence Scott Morrison's politics?
  19. Trust has to be as important as profit if banks and their boards are to regain their corporate legitimacy
  20. The planned national waste policy won't deliver a truly circular economy
  21. Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream
  22. why did mammals go the fur route, rather than developing feathers?
  23. The problem isn't dockless share bikes. It's the lack of bike parking
  24. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: Australia's extreme weather
  25. The problem with Australia's banks is one of too much law and too little enforcement
  26. Royal Commission shows banks have behaved appallingly, but we've helped them do it
  27. the importance of pilot checklists
  28. Speaking out about sexual violence on social media may not challenge gendered power relations
  29. 'Things are so bad that new laws might not help'
  30. 'The worst kind of pain you can imagine' – what it's like to be stung by a stinging tree
  31. Michelle Grattan on ABC turmoil, the federal budget and the controversy over Australia Day
  32. How the laws of ancient Rome could help victims of sexual harassment in Australia
  33. SharkSpotter combines AI and drone technology to spot sharks and aid swimmers on Australian beaches
  34. let's take a ride across Australia
  35. a linguistic 'shirtfronting' for lovers and haters of sports alike
  36. How teachers can help support children during their parents’ divorce
  37. how the moral panic over 'sexual sadists' silenced their victims
  38. Four lessons for Australia from England's system of rating its aged care homes
  39. Ten lessons from cities that have risen to the affordable housing challenge
  40. Will 2018 be the year of climate action? Victorian London's 'Great Stink' sewer crisis might tell us
  41. for all its worth, the banking royal commission could hurt a generation of battlers
  42. Health care is getting cheaper (unless you need a specialist, or a dentist)
  43. ABC's challenge is to 'keep calm and carry on'
  44. With Justin Milne gone, how does the ABC go about restoring its crucial independence?
  45. Bring on the royal commission, but we have a plan to act on aged care right now
  46. We need to talk about the mental health of content moderators
  47. Man With The Iron Neck is gripping, confronting physical theatre
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