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Investigative reporter Louise Milligan on Cardinal Pell and redactions in the Royal Commission's report

  • Written by: Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University

Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against child sexual assault convictions kicks off this week, but when that’s over Pell still has another reckoning to face: the unredacted findings of Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

When the royal commission handed down its massive report in late 2017, several sections...

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The Reserve Bank will cut rates again and again, until we lift spending and push up prices

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

The Reserve Bank cut interest rates on Tuesday because we aren’t spending or pushing up prices at anything like the rate it would like. And things are even worse than it might have realised.

As the board met in Martin Place in Sydney, in Canberra at 11.30 am the Bureau of Statistics released details of retail spending in April, one month...

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19 years of personal data was stolen from ANU. It could show up on the dark web

  • Written by: Nicholas Patterson, Lecturer, Deakin University
19 years of personal data was stolen from ANU. It could show up on the dark webIt's been reported that names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, personal email addresses and emergency contact details, tax file numbers, payroll information, bank account details, passport details and student academic records were accessed.www.shutterstock.com

Today it was revealed the Australian National University (ANU) fell victim to a...

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Why reducing unemployment should have been a focus for NZ's well-being budget

  • Written by: Simon Chapple, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Why reducing unemployment should have been a focus for NZ's well-being budgetNew Zealand's unemployment rate is better than the OECD average of 5.2%, but 12 OECD countries have lower rates. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

In its much awaited first well-being budget, New Zealand’s coalition government missed a major trick in not making unemployment one of their central well-being priorities.

As of March 2019, New...

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  4. Thirty years on, China is still trying to whitewash the Tiananmen crackdown from its history
  5. A deadly fungus threatens to wipe out 100 frog species – here's how it can be stopped
  6. Preschool benefits all children, but not all children get it. Here's what the government can do about that
  7. What's the difference between credit and debt? How Afterpay and other 'BNPL' providers skirt consumer laws
  8. ancient memories of maar volcanoes
  9. The search for an alternative to GDP to measure a nation's progress – the New Zealand experience
  10. The Blues have to battle the numbers if they're to make it two-in-a-row in State of Origin
  11. How big data can help residents find transport, jobs and homes that work for them
  12. Had pre-eclampsia in pregnancy? These 5 things will lower your risk of heart disease
  13. Blocking Huawei's 5G could isolate Australia from future economic opportunities
  14. what's the best way to sit?
  15. how would the disappearance of anglerfish affect our environment?
  16. Coalition likely to have strong Senate position as their Senate vote jumps 3%
  17. when I swipe a matchstick how does it make fire?
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  20. the future or a washed-up idea?
  21. Five ethical questions for how we choose to use the Moon
  22. why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will probably lose money?
  23. Enough 'gotcha' campaign coverage. Here are five ways the media can better cover elections
  24. As privacy is lost a fingerprint at a time, a biometric rebel asserts our rights
  25. Kristina Keneally vs Peter Dutton should produce plenty of political bloodsport
  26. Adani's finch plan is approved, just weeks after being sent back to the drawing board
  27. an international superfood thousands of years in the making
  28. Children had no say in New Zealand's well-being budget, and that matters
  29. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Ken Wyatt's appointment
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  31. support for lower-emission business, transport, land use
  32. APRA is going to make it easier to borrow. It could be another one of its bad calls
  33. Why we're not giving up the search for mainland Australia's 'first extinct lizard'
  34. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the complex life of the 'poet of America'
  35. why Australia's policy on asylum seekers must change
  36. We've been given a pay rise. Were it not for concern about the economy, it would have been bigger
  37. As Morrison heads to the Pacific, our nearest neighbours will be looking for more than kind words
  38. If the Adani mine gets built, it will be thanks to politicians, on two continents
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  40. Traditional medicines must be integrated into health care for culturally diverse groups
  41. the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot
  42. Trees, the ancient Macedonians, and the world's first environmental disaster
  43. Housing affordability has improved slightly, but people on lower incomes will continue to struggle
  44. Is it good for Labor, or Bill Shorten, for the former leader to stay in parliament?
  45. Politics and religion collide in the Knesset as Netanyahu faces the fight of his political life
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  47. Over-the-counter contraceptive pill could save the health system $96 million a year
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  49. Mental health wins record funding in New Zealand's first 'well-being budget'
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