Climate change and energy policy, same-sex marriage, tax cuts and welfare payments: these were just a few of the subjects of heated debate in Australia in 2017. And the debates weren’t always based on the facts.
So, who got it right and who got it wrong in 2017?
The Conversation would like to thank each of the academic FactCheck authors who...
Social researcher Hugh Mackay and The Conversation's FactCheck Editor Lucinda Beaman.“I’ve found 2017 a really disturbing year.”
That’s the summary from writer, thinker and social researcher Hugh Mackay.
Mackay spoke in December with The Conversation’s FactCheck Editor Lucinda Beaman at the Sydney launch of The...
As emergency services rushed to help after a vehicle was driven into pedestrians on Flinders Street in Melbourne, Associate Professor Douglas Tomkin – an expert on how to make pedestrians safer in exactly these situations – passed by in a bus.
His first thought was: “Oh no. Not again.”
The latest attack, which Victorian...
If you're taking a walk, go to the park instead of walking near cars. from www.shutterstock.comWe don’t see air pollution, unless its concentration is high, and so we don’t realise it’s there and that we breathe it in. We don’t think of the devices we use every day and many times a day: cars, as air pollution sources.
A study...
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