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Naming suspects in criminal cases opens up ethical minefield

  • Written by: Marilyn McMahon, Associate Professor in Law, Deakin University
imageA screen shot from Channel 7's Million Dollar Cold Case.Yahoo! 7 TV

After extensively reviewing the conduct of the press in the UK, Lord Justice Leveson strongly argued that people merely suspected of having committed a crime should be protected from being identified.

He advised:

… save in exceptional and clearly identified circumstances (for...

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Tax on 'unearned gains' is the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle

  • Written by: Brian Feeney, Adjunct Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland

With housing prices still consistently in the news, could the ideas of 19th-century philosopher John Stuart Mill help improve affordability?

In 2015, some landowners near the proposed Northern Beaches hospital in Sydney were offered more than twice the area’s normal market value for their properties. They stood to make large windfall profits...

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Whiteley: a seductive cinematic portrait of a serious artist

  • Written by: Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
imageBrett Whiteley: his colourful biography frequently obscures the seriousness of his work. Transmission films

The caption on the poster for this film reads:

If there’s no meaning to life, then you might as well make it extraordinary. Whiteley in the iconic artist’s own words.

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) was certainly the most public and...

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Global warming could accelerate towards 1.5℃ if the Pacific gets cranky

  • Written by: Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne
imageThe tropical Pacific has a large say in how fast the world warms.GTS Productions/Shutterstock.com

Global warming is rapidly approaching 1.5℃, but according to our new research, conditions in the Pacific Ocean over the coming decades will determine how fast we get there.

In a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, we use...

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