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Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack

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

The government is seeking to reassure Australians their census data is secure, after an attack combined with system failures forced the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to take down the site on Tuesday night to ensure data was protected.

After several “denial of service” attacks from unidentified sources designed to stop people...

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With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?

  • Written by: Paul Kildea, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law School; Director, Referendums Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Australia
imageThe Referendum Council has extended its timetable for consultations on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians.AAP/Paul Miller

On Tuesday, the Referendum Council announced it was extending its timetable for consultations on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians into next year. It will need until mid-2017 to...

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Weekly Dose: triptans, drugs that relieve migraine but only if taken at the right time

  • Written by: Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Barwon Health
imageMigraine is a severe, often debilitating headache that can affect sight and speech.Britt-knee/Flickr, CC BY

Triptans are a group of drugs targeted at alleviating symptoms of migraine, a severe and often debilitating headache that can affect sight and speech.

Triptans are derived from the amino acid tryptophan and designed to resemble the serotonin...

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Drowning by averages: did the ABS miscalculate the Census load?

  • Written by: Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
imageIf you only consider average depth, you could drown at the deepest point.Shutterstock

There’s an old parable used in introductory statistics classes to illustrate how an average can be misleading when maximum values are of interest. The parable is of a person who drowns while walking across a river.

The person can’t swim but is not...

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  2. Andrew Bolt and ACMA: should 'hyperbole' get in the way of accuracy?
  3. Census website cracks after 'malicious' attack by hackers
  4. Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
  5. Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
  6. Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?
  7. More than fun: capitalising sport’s social goods
  8. Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics
  9. Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?
  10. Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam
  11. ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census
  12. The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night
  13. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  14. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees
  15. Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade
  16. Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later
  17. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  18. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected
  19. Horton wins by naming the elephant in the room at Rio Olympics
  20. Smart cities: does this mean more transport disruptions?
  21. Why credit rating agencies' economic advice shouldn't be trusted
  22. Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
  23. Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
  24. Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team
  25. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  26. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  27. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  28. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  29. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  30. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  31. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  32. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  33. Does racism make us sick?
  34. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  35. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  36. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  37. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  38. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?
  39. Can you 'teach' workers to be more emotionally resilient?
  40. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
  41. Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes
  42. The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull
  43. Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions
  44. Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050
  45. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
  46. What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?
  47. Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
  48. Further Senate results and analysis
  49. The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments
  50. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]

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