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Sydney public housing evictions a policy success? Only if you ignore the high human cost

  • Written by: Alan Morris, Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Three years after New South Wales’ housing minister announced that all 579 public housing tenants in Millers Point, Dawes Point and the Sirius Building would be moved within two years and their homes sold, only 24 tenants are still resisting the move. So far, 151 properties have been sold for A$400.89 million, with a median sale price of...

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Some private hospitals are safer than others, but we don't know which

  • Written by: David Ben-Tovim, Professor, Clinical Epidemiology & Process Redesign, Flinders University
imagePrivate health insurance allows you to choose which hospital to go to for treatment. But are some safer than others?from www.shutterstock.com

The recent jailing of British breast surgeon Ian Paterson after performing multiple unnecessary operations has highlighted the issue of hospital safety.

Paterson’s unnecessary surgeries included some...

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Explainer: what Islam actually says about domestic violence

  • Written by: Nada Ibrahim, Senior Research Fellow in Domestic and Family Violence, University of South Australia
imageThere is a common misunderstanding that one particular Qur’anic verse perpetuates violence against women.AAP/Lukas Coch

Domestic violence is not specific to a particular religious group; Australian statistics indicate that one in six women experience physical or sexual violence from a current or former partner in their lifetime.

Despite this, s...

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Guide to the classics: Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War

  • Written by: Julia Kindt, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
imageThe fall of the Athenian army in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War in 413 BC as depicted in an 1893 illustration by J.G.Vogt.Wikimedia Commons

Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War breaks off before the story is over. After detailing the armed conflict between the Athenians and the Spartans (and their respective allies) between 431...

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