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GetUp raises nearly $200,000 in crowdfunding to campaign against Peter Dutton

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageMalcolm Turnbull's protector on the conservative flank of the party, Peter Dutton, is the target of a new GetUp campaign.Mick Tsikas/AAP

The activist group GetUp has raised almost A$200,000 in less than a week for a campaign to unseat Immigration Minister Peter Dutton in his marginal Brisbane electorate of Dickson.

An email appealing for funds that...

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Newspoll steady at 53-47 to Labor. Plus UK and French elections

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

This week’s Newspoll, conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1655, is completely unchanged on voting intentions since last fortnight’s post-budget Newspoll. Labor leads 53-47, from primary votes of 36% Coalition, 36% Labor, 10% Greens and 9% One Nation.

35% were satisfied with Turnbull’s performance (up 2) and 54% were...

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When it comes to ransomware, it's sometimes best to pay up

  • Written by: Micheal Axelsen, Lecturer (Business Information Systems), The University of Queensland
imageBusinesses struck by ransomware have to make some hard decisions.Christiaan Colen/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Companies hit by ransomware are faced with an ethical dilemma: pay up to save their now-encrypted data, or hold the moral high ground and lose it all.

This is a question many companies may have to face. The recent WannaCry cyber-attack, which targeted...

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Review: Wonder Woman reinvigorates tired superhero conventions

  • Written by: Liam Burke, Senior Media Studies Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
imageGal Gadot as Wonder Woman: she eschews corsets, barges into men-only meetings, and compares secretarial work to slavery.Atlas Entertainment, Cruel & Unusual Films, DC Entertainment

“Wonder Woman! All the world’s waiting for you,” rang the theme song to the classic 1970s television show as one-time Miss World America, Lynda...

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