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How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect them

  • Written by: Heather Douglas, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect themIndigenous people make up just 4.2% of the Queensland population, but are the subjects of 21% of domestic violence protection order applications.Shutterstock

A domestic violence protection order is the most common legal response to domestic and family violence in Australia. Every year, Queensland courts issue about 25,000 orders to protect people...

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Wentworth preselectors' rebuff to Morrison caps week of mayhem

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

In the early hours of Friday morning, the Liberal preselectors of Wentworth delivered their new prime minister a humiliating public slapdown.

In selecting Dave Sharma, 42, former Australian ambassador to Israel and now a partner in an accountancy firm, as the candidate for the October 20 byelection, the preselectors have on all accounts chosen the...

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Once upon a time ... 'sleeping beauties' and the importance of storytelling in science

  • Written by: Jennifer Byrne, Professor of Molecular Oncology, University of Sydney
Once upon a time ... 'sleeping beauties' and the importance of storytelling in scienceWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

I’m a regular biomedical scientist, although in one sense I’m perhaps a bit different, in that I really like the process of writing.

From speaking with colleagues and teaching postgraduate students about the process of scientific writing for more than ten years, I estimate that eight or nine of...

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who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo

  • Written by: Claire Smith, Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargoVincent Copley senior and Vincent Copley junior at Redbanks Conservation Park, Burra, in June, 2018. They are holding Ngadjuri book, with their grandfather and great-grandfather, Barney Waria, on the cover. Photo: C.J. Taylor, Flinders University.

Imagine your grandfather was interviewed about his life, over many hours, some 80 years ago....

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