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Tensions rise on coronavirus handling as the media take control of...
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Media coverage of disasters follows a broadly similar trajectory, even though the disasters themselves might take very different forms.
The COVID-19 crisis...
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CHARITIES
Permission To Shine opens with Big Prizes and announces First Judges!
Play It Forward, together with Dr Jonathon Welch AM, is thrilled to announce that round one of Permission to Shine is open. This online...
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INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
Why most Aboriginal people have little say over clean energy projects...
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Huge clean energy projects, such as the Asian Renewable Energy Hub in the Pilbara, Western Australia, are set to produce gigawatts of electricity...
GAMBLING
Most community bids to block pokies fail – the law is...
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Most Australians know you never end up winning on the pokies. What Australians might not know is that the odds of winning...
SOCIAL CONNECTIONS
‘Ageing in neighbourhood’: what seniors want instead of retirement villages and...
Seniors show pictures of what age-friendly homes
and neighbourhoods mean to them. Photograph credit: C Osborne.,
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp...
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All colours of the rainbow: why Tasmania’s new gender identity laws...
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In late 2019, Tasmania became the first state to allow its citizens (especially transgender/agender people) to obtain a birth certificate that accurately...
WOMENS BUSINESS
‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated...
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Last week, a 17-year-old boy in Toronto was charged with an act of terrorism in the alleged killing of a woman with a machete –...
MENS BUSINESS
Gel Blasters vs Airsoft: What’s The Difference
Gel blaster weapons vary in fire force, type of ammunition, realism, and accuracy from Airsoft weapons. You will have the answers to your questions...
SENIORS BUSINESS
View from The Hill: Aged care crisis reflects poor preparation and...
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Scott Morrison wasn’t going to be caught out twice. In Hawaii during the bushfires, the prime minister had hesitated before returning...
COMMUNITY
‘No one is truly there to help’: why so little is...
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As part of new research into missing persons in Australia, I have been asking people who return after disappearing what they needed or...
WELFARE
5 charts on what a Newstart recipient really looks like
Unless we know who who Newstart recipients are, we are likely
to make wrong decisions about how much to pay them and whether...
RELIGION
Denied full participation, Catholic women mobilise for change
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Women still make up the majority of the Catholic workforce and Catholic congregations, but their participation in church life is in decline.
Indeed, each generation of Catholic...
