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Explainer: why three government ministers might face contempt of court charges

  • Written by: Lorraine Finlay, Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University
imageGreg Hunt is one of three Turnbull government ministers ordered to appear before Victoria's Supreme Court on Friday.AAP/Lukas Coch

Victoria’s Supreme Court has ordered three Turnbull government ministers to appear before it on Friday to explain why they should not be referred for prosecution for contempt of court. A journalist and newspaper...

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How popular culture gets Australian spy work wrong

  • Written by: John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
imageUnsurprisingly, the Jason Bourne films won't tell you much about ASIO.Bourne Supremacy screenshot/Universal

The cloak-and-dagger exploits of characters like James Bond and Jason Bourne have shaped our cultural idea of spy work. But these films, made mostly in the US and UK, have little to do with the reality of Australian intelligence.

Public...

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Armpits and melons: an olfactory reading of James Joyce

  • Written by: Frances Devlin-Glass, Associate Professor, Literary Studies, Deakin University
imageMany literary questions about smell are quite philosophical. Why do humans get pleasure from perfumes? Do rich bodies smell differently from poor ones?from www.shutterstock.com

Smell is the Cinderella of the senses in Anglophone literature. The Europeans do it differently from English writers. The Naturalists, with their anti-romantic, hyper...

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Ten Network has a hard road back to viability

  • Written by: Peter Wells, Professor, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney

With Ten Network in voluntary administration, efforts are under way to restructure the company. But having lost A$231.2 million in the half-year ending February 2017, it will take a lot to make Ten a viable business.

In the short term, Ten has to focus on reducing costs by renegotiating contracts with its suppliers. Over the long term, Ten has to...

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  4. Emily Bell: Journalism in the age of Trump and the real-time social web
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  6. The problems with asking banks to police financial abuse
  7. Explainer: what is public interest journalism?
  8. CPA in crisis: why more associations will have to disclose CEO pay
  9. Playing the numbers: a billion-dollar gamble on the European X-ray Laser
  10. Will the superhero films ever end? The business of blockbuster movie franchises
  11. Are maternal hormones different when carrying a boy or a girl?
  12. Zoos aren't Victorian-era throwbacks: they're important in saving species
  13. Leaving school early means you're likely never to return to study and training in adult life
  14. Autonomy and strong female leadership key to success of Indigenous owned Murri School
  15. Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries
  16. Ten Network's problems are history repeating
  17. UK Labour's votes have become inefficiently distributed since 2010
  18. For $70m, government gets off lightly, but settlement still highlights responsibility for Manus
  19. When is 'not a backdoor' just a backdoor? Australia's struggle with encryption
  20. Trepidation and delight: experiencing Dark Mofo with a three-year-old
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  25. Research Check: can even moderate drinking cause brain damage?
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