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The ethics of 'securitising' Australian cyberspace

  • Written by: Dr Shannon Brandt Ford, Lecturer, Curtin University

This article is the fifth in a five-part series exploring Australian national security in the digital age. Read parts one, two, three and four here.


As technology evolves and Australia becomes ever-more reliant on cyber systems throughout government and society, the threats that cyber attacks pose to the country’s national security are real...

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How the Bible helped shape Australian culture

  • Written by: Robyn J. Whitaker, Bromby Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Trinity College, University of Divinity
How the Bible helped shape Australian cultureThroughout Australian history, the Bible has been used by those both asserting colonial power and subverting it, as a tool of oppression and as an instrument of justice.shutterstock

Did you know the anti-Christian slang, “Bible-bashers,” was coined by Australians? Or that the largest crowd ever to gather at the Melbourne Cricket Ground...

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Australia's shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues

  • Written by: Hal Pawson, Associate Director - City Futures - Urban Policy and Strategy, City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
Australia's shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues

Exactly a decade ago in 2008, the Australian government committed to an ambitious strategy to halve national homelessness by 2020. Through stepped-up early intervention, better homelessness services and an expanded supply of affordable housing, the problem would be tackled with conviction. Instead, as succeeding governments regrettably abandoned...

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Five things we wouldn't know without NAPLAN

  • Written by: Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
Five things we wouldn't know without NAPLANWe may need to rethink how NAPLAN is used, but overall it's an important tool for researchers and policy makers.Shutterstock

NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review and one of the world’s leading education experts calling the writing portion “the worst one of the 10 or 12 of the international tests” and “by...

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  1. What it's like to be a 'black economy' worker
  2. There is extra funding for aged care in the budget, but not enough to meet demand
  3. Polish Resistance fighter, 'Slavic space age' modernist, legendary Australian artist
  4. Why Iceland is set to resume whaling despite international opposition
  5. Why rural Australia is facing a volunteer crisis
  6. A history of the marsupial lion
  7. Small sats are vital to Australia's space industry – and they won't be space junk
  8. If we can't recycle it, why not turn our waste plastic into fuel?
  9. Going Down finds hilarious satire in migrant identity
  10. How information warfare in cyberspace threatens our freedom
  11. 94% of Australians do not read all privacy policies that apply to them – and that’s rational behaviour
  12. what should I eat to improve my skin?
  13. Competing foreign interests trump Syrian aspirations for political change
  14. could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?
  15. will the banking royal commission push down property prices?
  16. a short history of the contraceptive pill
  17. No, women don't need to 'take a break' from the pill every couple of years
  18. Can anyone learn to sing? For most of us, the answer is yes
  19. Is that selfie really worth it? Why face time with wild animals is a bad idea
  20. Mixed messages in post-budget Newspoll and Fairfax-Ipsos
  21. Let's get moving with the affordable medium-speed alternatives to the old dream of high-speed rail
  22. We asked people if they would trust driverless cars
  23. use technology to make the tests more authentic and relevant
  24. Changes to superannuation insurance won't jack up rates – but if anything they don't go far enough
  25. The secret agents protecting our crops and gardens
  26. Archibald winner Yvette Coppersmith channels her inner Jacinda Ardern in an intelligent, classical work
  27. A giant 'singing' cloud in space will help us to understand how star systems form
  28. Why the internet alone can't be blamed for radicalisation
  29. Criminals can't easily edit their DNA out of forensic databases
  30. what is burnout and what can we do about it?
  31. Michelle Grattan on the 2018 budget, tax cuts and the citizenship crisis
  32. Malaysians celebrate the return of Mahathir and hope for a brighter future
  33. For Timor-Leste, another election and hopes for an end to crippling deadlock
  34. Shorten gives Turnbull a character-forming task on tax
  35. how inflation in China and the US could affect Australia
  36. Who are the wealthy retirees targeted in Labor's plans?
  37. Here's why flu vaccinations should be mandatory for Aussie health workers in high-risk areas
  38. Here's how a complex low-pressure system sent temperatures plummeting
  39. the complex, contradictory pleasures of pulp fiction
  40. How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
  41. Ancient ancestors of modern baleen whales were toothy not-so-gentle giants
  42. Sydney's Chinatown is much more of a modern bridge to Asia than a historic enclave
  43. what Australian schools can do to promote acceptance of gender diversity
  44. Bill Shorten outbids Turnbull's tax cut for lower and middle income earners
  45. we still don't have proof that cutting company taxes will boost jobs and wages
  46. Australia's property boom and bust cycle stretches back to colonial days
  47. Centre Alliance's Rebekha Sharkie most vulnerable at byelections forced by dual citizenship saga
  48. Does it pay to graduate from an ‘elite’ university? Not as much as you'd think
  49. Religious backlash loosens clerics' grip on legacy of 1979 Iranian Revolution
  50. the case of 'Universal Medicine'

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