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Royal commission sheds light on another uncomfortable truth: harmful sexual behaviour in children

  • Written by: Wendy O'Brien, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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In Australia, as in most comparable countries, the development of a fulsome understanding of child sexual abuse has been appallingly slow. In the absence of an appropriate policy framework to prevent child sexual abuse, generations of children have endured terrible harm.

Within the broad scope of “child sexual abuse”, one...

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Something is missing from the public interest journalism debate

  • Written by: Misha Ketchell, Editor, The Conversation

Let’s start with a few things on which we can all agree, chief among them that public interest journalism is a Good Thing. The fourth estate has a crucial role in holding power to account. The big stories that journalists uncover can spark meaningful change: Watergate, or the Moonlight State corruption revelations in Queensland, or the...

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Australia's aged care residents are very sick, yet the government doesn't prioritise medical care

  • Written by: Jane Phillips, Director of IMPACCT, Professor of Palliative Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
imageThe situation for older Australians isn't what was envisioned when the Aged Care act was introduced in 1997.from shutterstock.com

It’s been 20 years since the government brought in the Aged Care Act 1997 to deliver a new model of care for older Australians who could no longer live at home and required assistance with daily tasks. The act...

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Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a must-visit exhibition for all Australians

  • Written by: Christine Judith Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies, Flinders University
imageIndigenous artists, including Josephine Mick, experience the immersive multimedia DomeLab, part of the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition.George Serras, NMA

Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a peerless exhibition of Aboriginal art, thrilling in its breadth and depth.

Seven years in the planning, now showing at the National...

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  2. Mental disorders linked to poor NAPLAN performance in Australian schools
  3. Bad data collection means we don't know how much the middle class is being squeezed by the wealthy
  4. The evolutionary history of men and women should not prevent us from seeking gender equality
  5. Nick Xenophon could be South Australia's next premier, while Turnbull loses his 25th successive Newspoll
  6. The federal Climate Policy Review: a recipe for business as usual
  7. From the 16th-century to men's rights activists, why 'cuckold' is the worst thing you can call a man
  8. The social factors that influence whether you’ll use your wearable device
  9. Instead of asking women to 'fix' their choices about work, let's help them belong in a workplace
  10. What Jewish law says about suicide and assisted dying
  11. BMI is underestimating obesity in Australia, waist circumference needs to be measured too
  12. Tourists are happy when taken off the beaten track, and smaller cities and towns can tap into that
  13. A reshuffle that's come with plenty of pain and questionable gain
  14. Turnbull's reshuffle undermined by Barnaby Joyce's ousting of Darren Chester
  15. Journalists, there’s more than one expert in town, and here they are
  16. Miss out on our live Conversation Starters? We have you covered
  17. Transurban's West Gate tollway is a road into uncharted territory
  18. Health Check: what should you do with your unused medicine?
  19. More Australian trans stories on our TV screens, please
  20. Explainer: the charges against an Australian man accused of being an ‘economic agent’ for North Korea
  21. From testosterone to dogs, and physics for babies: five fascinating books in 2017
  22. Finally, police are taking family violence as seriously as terrorism
  23. Climate scientists and policymakers need to trust each other (but not too much)
  24. Belles in battle: how queer US soldiers found a place to express themselves in WWII
  25. Are mosquito coils good or bad for our health?
  26. To our FactCheck Q A readers: thank you for sharing the facts in 2017
  27. No sign of alien life 'so far' on the mystery visitor from space, but we're still looking
  28. Seven charts on the 2017 budget update
  29. Government budget update saved by higher than expected economic figures
  30. Budget update shaves growth and wage forecasts but is brighter about the deficit
  31. How painting escaped the canvas and another brush with death
  32. Tide turned: surveys show the public has lost its appetite for shark culls
  33. Michael Kirby: the rainbow in Asia and the fight for gay rights in our region
  34. Brandis off to London, as Turnbull prepares his reshuffle
  35. The royal commission's final report has landed – now to make sure there is an adequate redress scheme
  36. Pregnancy doesn't 'cure' endometriosis, so where does this advice come from?
  37. From reproducers to 'flutters' to 'sluts': tracing attitudes to women's pleasure in Australia
  38. By slashing environment spending, the government is slashing opportunities
  39. Morrison will deliver better news on debt in budget update
  40. Three (funny) charts on: 2017 in business and economics
  41. Thinking of taking up WeChat? Here's what you need to know
  42. Young people want walkable neighbourhoods, but safety is a worry
  43. Bennelong brings Turnbull a prized Lego piece – but he still has to build the set
  44. John Alexander easily retains Bennelong, and how the LNP saved Labor's Jackie Trad in Queensland
  45. Alexander holds Bennelong, Turnbull holds majority
  46. Google's artificial intelligence finds two new exoplanets missed by human eyes
  47. Royal commission report makes preventing institutional sexual abuse a national responsibility
  48. To fight the catastrophic fires of the future, we need to look beyond prescribed burning
  49. Royal commission recommends sweeping reforms for Catholic Church to end child abuse
  50. CBA admissions will make class action easier but shareholders still have a lot to prove

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