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Why industrial manslaughter laws are unlikely to save lives in the workplace

  • Written by: Rick Sarre, Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia

In May, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that a re-elected Labor government would legislate for a new criminal offence of workplace manslaughter.

Designed to severely punish companies that cause industrial deaths, penalties would not only include far greater fines than currently exist but, significantly, could result in 20 years’...

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five medicinal plants used by Aboriginal Australians

  • Written by: Beth Gott, Honorary Research Fellow, Monash University
five medicinal plants used by Aboriginal AustraliansBalgo artists: Miriam Baadjo (b. 1957),Tossie Baadjo (b. 1958), Jane Gimme (b. 1958), Gracie Mosquito (b. 1955), Helen Nagomara (b. 1953), Ann Frances Nowee (b. 1964) and Imelda Yukenbarri (b. 1954). Bush medicine: a collaborative work by women from Wirrimanu (Balgo), 2018, acrylic on linen, 120×180cm, MHM2018.32, © Warlayirti Artists;...

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Australian drama in the 1970s

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
Australian drama in the 1970sHappy and Holy: Barry Otto as Tockey, Ruth Cracknell as Cecilia McManus, Graham Rowe as Denny, Ron Hadrick as O'Halloran in a 1982 production by the Sydney Theatre Company.Photographer David Wilson.

In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama.

If Australian drama came of age in the 1940s and 1950s, in the 1970s it...

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Traditional Aboriginal healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap

  • Written by: Victoria Grieves, ARC Indigenous Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Traditional Aboriginal healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gapIndigenous Australians have a strong relationship with the natural world.from shutterstock.com

The wellbeing of Indigenous people is based around having the freedom and resources to practise cultural ways of being. While some of these can seem removed from those in the West – such as the lack of materialism, primacy of kin and a close...

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