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Mob violence shows Indonesia must act against online hate speech

  • Written by: Rido Parulian Panjaitan, PhD Candidate and Member of Digital Media and Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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People in Indonesia were appalled last month by the news of a mob burning down Buddhist temples in Tanjung Balai, a port city in North Sumatra.

A chain of messages on social media had reportedly fuelled the violence. The nature of social media, which holds the potential for slander to...

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Is your child having trouble learning? They may have auditory processing disorder

  • Written by: Dani Tomlin, Academic, University of Melbourne
imageAuditory processing disorder is most common among primary school children.from shutterstock.com

Have you ever struggled to follow a conversation at a party? If listening and piecing together the conversation is a consistent problem, you might be suffering from auditory processing disorder (APD).

The term APD describes several disorders that result...

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What makes an elite badminton player?

  • Written by: Jodie Cochrane Wilkie, Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics, Edith Cowan University
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The shuttle – aka shuttlecock or badminton birdie – has been recorded moving at 408km per hour (at the 2015 Hong Kong Open) from a badminton stroke known as the jump smash.

This easily beats the fastest recorded tennis serve – by Australia’s Samuel Groth (263.4km/h) – and the records in other sports, such as golf...

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Politics podcast: Anne Aly on counter-terrorism policy

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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When parliament returns later this month, Labor’s Anne Aly will become the first Muslim woman to take a seat in the lower house. Aly is an internationally renowned scholar on counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation.

In 2014, she was the only Australian expert invited to attend Barack Obama’s summit on countering violent...

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