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Media owners steer government away from reform in the public interest

  • Written by: Tim Dwyer, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
imageMitch Fifield argues media diversity is under threat unless the government's bill is passed.AAP/Joel Carrett

The Turnbull government’s media bill has been sent off to another Senate inquiry, despite protestations from the government and the industry over the need to pass it urgently.

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield’s assessment is...

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Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?

  • Written by: Jonathan Carapetis, Professor, Paediatrics, Telethon Kids Institute
imageIndigenous Australians in the Northern Territory are more than 100 times as likely to have rheumatic heart disease than their non-Indigenous counterparts.Screenshot/Take Heart - Strep: Group A Streptococcal Infection

This article is the second in our three-part series on blinding, deafening and sometimes deadly conditions in Indigenous Australian...

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Shadow banking increases the risk of another global financial crisis

  • Written by: Necmi K Avkiran, Associate Professor in Banking and Finance, The University of Queensland

Banks may still be evading increased regulation by shifting activities to shadow banking. This system is well established as part of the financial sector, but it provides products that separate an investor from an investment, making it more difficult to evaluate risk and value.

This lack of transparency increases the risk in our financial system...

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Here’s looking at: John Olsen, Summer in the You Beaut Country, 1962

  • Written by: Ted Snell, Professor, Chief Cultural Officer, Cultural Precinct, University of Western Australia
imageSummer in the you beaut country, John Olsen, 1962.Courtesy National Gallery Victoria, © John Olsen

When writing his entry on John Olsen in his history of Australian art in the early 1960s Robert Hughes identified “… a streak of grease-paint” on the artist’s palette. This was front-line reporting from a young critic...

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  2. Squandering riches: can Perth realise the value of its biodiversity?
  3. Into the spotlight: media coverage of the Paralympic Games has come a long way
  4. Making drug development less secretive could lead to quicker, cheaper therapies
  5. Pauline Hanson 20 years on: same refrain, new target
  6. Newspoll steady, with Turnbull's poor ratings continuing
  7. Senator, You're No Socrates
  8. Foreign donations on agenda for parliamentary inquiry
  9. Shorten shoots down plebiscite
  10. To get young people into work, we first need to understand how the workplace is changing
  11. Despite the funding cut, ARENA's glass is still half full – here's how to spend the money
  12. Weekly Dose: cannabis has been used medicinally for millennia, why is legalising it taking so long?
  13. Explainer: why Hanjin's ships are stranded around the globe
  14. A day for turning parking spaces into pop-up parks
  15. How Game of Thrones' Emmy-award-winning battle scene was made
  16. Going bankrupt is a life changing decision – so why is the process to do it so easy?
  17. Yes, education funding has increased – but not everyone benefits
  18. Politics podcast: Don Watson on the rise of Trump
  19. Explainer: the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  20. Section 18C is an important part of a civilised society and no threat to free speech
  21. Why is the advertising industry still promoting violence against women?
  22. Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
  23. Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions
  24. First person: how the Paralympics changed my life
  25. We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
  26. Australia is locking up too many women but the UK offers a blueprint for a radical new approach
  27. Guide to the classics: Ovid's Metamorphoses and reading rape
  28. Confused? Don't worry because that can be a good thing
  29. People are 'blind' to plants, and that's bad news for conservation
  30. Australian Renewable Energy Agency saved but with reduced funding – experts react
  31. What is the role of a teacher?
  32. Gay Liberal senator denounces marriage plebiscite
  33. Australia's housing affordability problem explained in five historical steps
  34. Risky business: how companies are getting smart about climate change
  35. Government gets a deal for $6.3 billion in savings to pass parliament
  36. Here's why we need nurse-resident ratios in aged care homes
  37. Dickensian approach to residential tenants lingers in Australian law
  38. Australia's Health 2016 report card: experts respond
  39. Young people worldwide fear a lack of economic opportunities – it's easy to see why
  40. LNP abandons hope of challenging Herbert result
  41. Chris Mitchell writes a love letter to himself
  42. The democratic paradox
  43. Political meddling in teacher education needs to stop
  44. Free speech is at risk in Australia – and it's not from Section 18C
  45. Get out of my face! We're more antisocial in a shared office space
  46. Plebiscite looks set to fail, but the push for same-sex marriage will not
  47. Finding momentary pleasure: how viewing art can help people with dementia
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