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Questions still need answering in Australia's largest health data breach

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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In what is Australia’s biggest data breach of medical information, more than 550,000 customers of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service had personal and medical details exposed online and leaked to an anonymous hacker last week.

According to the Blood Service, the data...

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New ban on boat people may be belt-and-braces for resettlement initiative

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The only way the Turnbull government’s announcement of its latest move against boat people makes sense is if it is the belt-and-braces part of a wider plan to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island in one or more third countries.

The legislation will provide that boat arrivals taken for regional processing since July 19 2013, when...

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Do American voters really have a say on election day?

  • Written by: Bryan Cranston, Online Lecturer in Politics, and PhD Candidate in Politics and History, Swinburne University of Technology

Despite popular opinion, American voters on Election Day are not voting for the president. They are merely indicating a preference for whom they would like to see become president.

Voters are in fact, voting for “Electors” to represent their state in the US Electoral College. It is these Electors who cast the vote to decide who is...

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How the Internet was born: The network begins to take shape

  • Written by: Giovanni Navarria, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), University of Sydney
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This essay is the second of a three-part series, which commemorates the anniversary of the first ever message sent across the ARPANET, the progenitor of the Internet on October 29, 1969. First part here.

In 1962, ARPA’s Command and Control Research Division became the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), and the...

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  2. How the Internet was born: A stuttered hello
  3. Day flip flops about Senate future
  4. Dreamworld owner Ardent Leisure needs a lesson in managing a crisis
  5. ASIC report highlights a deep culture problem in Australia's banks
  6. Turnbull sympathetic to parliamentary inquiry on 18C
  7. Is it time to resurrect the wartime 'Grow Your Own' campaign?
  8. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, September 2016
  9. Apple's new MacBook Pro models bring a new touch to the traditional keyboard
  10. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on housing affordability
  11. 'Healthy’ fast food chains not living up to their claims
  12. Jessica Wongso found guilty in cyanide coffee case, but she may not yet have had a fair trial
  13. What will consumers gain from research into complementary medicines?
  14. Why Australian dietary recommendations on fat need to change
  15. Revising for exams - why cramming the night before rarely works
  16. If we're serious about gender equality, we need more women in leadership roles
  17. Friday essay: Judith Wright in a new light
  18. Private property developers are really driving China's debt: new research
  19. Vital Signs: Melbourne Cup day rate cut less likely
  20. Is Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' really the most unread bestseller?
  21. FactCheck: Has the job market got so bad that 'people have stopped looking for work'?
  22. Changes to Australia's marine reserves leave our oceans unprotected
  23. Why I'm spending three months sailing right around Antarctica for science
  24. Relax, the expansion of the universe is still accelerating
  25. Grattan on Friday: Morrison opens housing affordability debate but can he control it?
  26. Phantom brands haunting our supermarket shelves as home brand in disguise
  27. Full response from a spokesman for Brendan O'Connor
  28. The problems with AT T's bid for Time Warner
  29. Cosmic coincidence: the International Space Station passes by Venus and Saturn
  30. Race to the White House - how gender, race and class are shaping the election
  31. Removal of 'double dipping' from parental leave may impact mothers' health
  32. Body-worn cameras are not a panacea for poor policing
  33. FactCheck: is wage growth at record lows?
  34. Full response from a spokesperson for Chris Bowen
  35. Do we thank science for all our prosperity?
  36. What the universe looks like when viewed with radio eyes
  37. On the difficulty of being a world citizen
  38. Pitting mozzies against mozzies to stop the spread of disease
  39. Will the Great Barrier Reef recover from its worst-ever bleaching?
  40. Made in China: three ways Chinese business has evolved from imitation to innovation
  41. Supportive housing is cheaper than chronic homelessness
  42. A new breed of post-Trump populist leaders could put the US on the path to fascism
  43. State of the Climate 2016: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
  44. Crimes of grammar and other writing misdemeanours
  45. How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids
  46. Deaths at Dreamworld theme park could lead to safety changes for amusement rides
  47. Business Briefing: being funny with customers
  48. Another prime minister, another endorsement for coal – but why?
  49. Turnbull's Newspoll ratings slump continues
  50. Life interrupted: young people need help moving forward after cancer

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