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Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warnings

  • Written by: Julian Koplin, Resarch Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Melbourne Law School and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne
Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warningsThere is evidence drinking alcohol during pregnancy can harm the developing foetus.From shutterstock.com

DrinkWise Australia has withdrawn thousands of posters designed to inform women about the risks of drinking during pregnancy.

DrinkWise – which has previously drawn criticism for its alignment with the alcohol industry – distributed...

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What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled down

  • Written by: Philip Branch, Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled downOnce it's up and running, the main change for 5G users will be increased speed and reduced delay. Robin Worrall/Unsplash, CC BY

Who will build Australia’s 5G mobile phone network?

Not Chinese telecommunications infrastructure company Huawei, which was recently excluded from involvement via a statement from then acting Home Affairs Minister...

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Australian politics and the psychology of revenge

  • Written by: Lloyd Cox, Lecturer, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University

It’s hard to read the recent felling of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as anything other than an act of revenge by Tony Abbott and his closest supporters.

This is indeed the judgement of former foreign minister and opposition leader Alexander Downer and former Liberal Party treasurer Michael Yabsley, as revealed in ABC’s Four Corners....

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Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero

  • Written by: Stephen Knight, Honorary Research Professor, University of Melbourne
Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction heroAustralian crime fiction author Peter Corris published 102 novels in lifetimes, including 52 centred on the private investigator Cliff Hardy. ALLEN AND UNWIN

Peter Corris, author of the Cliff Hardy novels, died on August 30 2018 age 76.

By the 1970s Australian crime fiction was drifting.

The genre had a long history, back to convict days, when it...

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