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Four Corners: is using restraints akin to torture?

  • Written by: Bernadette McSherry, Foundation Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
imageThe images broadcast on Four Corners of a hooded figure sitting strapped to a chair are difficult to erase.AAP/Four Corners

Monday night’s ABC Four Corners program on the treatment of detainees in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory was devastating viewing. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s subsequent announcement of a royal...

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Save or salvage: the real role administrators play in troubled businesses

  • Written by: Jennifer Dickfos, Lecturer in Business Law and Corporations Law, Griffith University
imageSuccessful rescue of a company is the ideal rather than the reality.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

News that Australia’s third-largest pizza chain Eagle Boys has been placed in administration suggests a bleak future may lie ahead for the company.

Administrators have indicated they “are in the process of identifying restructuring...

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Will post-sentence detention of convicted terrorists make Australia any safer?

  • Written by: Tamara Tulich, Lecturer, Law School, University of Western Australia

Over the weekend, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged state and territory leaders to agree on the design of nationally consistent laws to enable convicted terrorists to be detained at the end of their prison sentences. This will be the first order of business when federal parliament resumes at the end of August.

Turnbull said these measures:

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The power of rewards and why we seek them out

  • Written by: Rachel Grieve, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Tasmania
imageGames like Pokémon GO cleverly exploit our psychology in the way they dole our rewards to keep players hooked.Shutterstock

Any dog owner will tell you that we can use a food reward as a motivation to change a dog’s behaviour. But humans are just as susceptible to rewards too.

When we get a reward, special pathways in our brain become...

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