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Social Cohesion
- How the coronavirus pandemic could shift the multicultural make-up of our society (Apr ’20)
- Coronavirus is a human crisis beyond most of our scariest dreams – we will need to restart our society (Apr ’20)
- New Australians feel abandoned as they battle social isolation, struggle to find employment (Oct '19)
- Loneliness is a social cancer, every bit as alarming as cancer itself (Nov '19)
- The demerit system is ruthless social policy, designed to keep the poor powerless (Jul '18)
- The many faces of social housing – home to 1 in 10 Australians (Mar '20)
- As simple as finding a job? Getting people out of social housing is much more complex than that (Dec '19)
- #ChurchToo: Christian victims of abuse join social media outpouring (Nov '17)
- New research shows prejudice still high in Australia, but many people seeking to promote social inclusion (Dec '19)
- Sisonke Msimang's 2020s vision: for social justice to prevail, we need anger fuelled by love (Mar '20)
- Eva Cox's 2020s vision: Now markets have failed, let's talk about social wellbeing (Feb '20)
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Democracy
- The palace letters amount to an act of interference in Australian democracy (Jul '20)
- Coronavirus highlights the painful political truth about health inequality. Is social democracy the answer? (Apr '20)
- ‘Neglected’ democracy vulnerable to authoritarian rule in era of disinformation, Labor’s Tim Watts says (Feb '20)
- Eureka flag ban shows government’s distaste for democracy (Feb '20)
- Postponing democracy The PM’s instincts are autocratic (Mar ’20)
- Australia’s democracy has faceplanted and Labor is staring down some disturbing truths (Dec ’19)
- AFP’s failure to investigate Angus Taylor has corrosive consequences for our democracy (Feb ’20)
- Trickle down baloney… Trump is the natural consequence of our anti-democracy decade (Dec ’19)
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Learning
Middle-aged men make up the largest age-specific increase in suicides, but we can learn from history (Feb ’20) Thinking about thinking helps kids learn. How can we teach critical thinking? (Jan ’20) Will we learn from the bushfire summer? Not if the wrong questions are asked (Feb ’20) ‘Clarity and compassion’: what Australia can learn from New Zealand’s coronavirus response (Mar ‘20)
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Work
The easiest way to reach out to your contacts if you're looking for work (Jun ’20) What defines casual work? Federal Court ruling highlights a fundamental flaw in Australian labour law (may ’20) Delivery workers are now essential. They deserve the rights of other employees (Mar ’20) The unemployment rate doesn’t go back to normal after a recession – there are long-term effects (Mar ‘20) Older, wiser but underemployed: no longer can it be treated with indifference (Feb ’20) Australian Government Employment Outlook: Health Care and Social Assistance Myths around mental illness cause high rates of unemployment (Dec ’19) Making an art form out of cruelty to people who are unemployed (Oct ’19) New Australians feel abandoned as they battle social isolation, struggle to find employment (Oct '19)
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Future
Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity (Apr ’20) The ripple effect: How supporting Indigenous home ownership drives a strong economic future for Australia (Feb ’20) Between two worlds: ‘I want my future to be on country’ (Feb ’20) David Pocock’s 2020s vision: Heal the land, secure our future (Jan ’20) 222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future generations (Feb ’20) If Australia’s resources were taxed the way Norway’s are, we could secure the future of our schools (Feb ’20) New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of ‘carbon-neutral future’ (Apr ’18)
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Waiting
NDIS minister claims no one has died waiting for the scheme, despite agency revealing 1,279 deaths (Jan ’20) New Zealand’s waiting list for state housing hits record high (Jan ’20) ‘We’re all just waiting’: NSW south coast residents still in limbo three months after bushfires (Mar ’20) Biloela family wait in Christmas Island limbo as Wuhan evacuees see out quarantine (Feb ’20) Man waits years for hepatitis C medication after immigration detention transfer (Oct ’19)
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Studies
Smoke from Australia’s bushfires killed far more people than the fires did, study says (Mar ’20) Australia’s electricity market must be 100% renewables by 2035 to achieve net zero by 2050 – study … (Feb ’20) Signs of cancer can appear long before diagnosis, study shows (Feb ’20) Methane emissions from coalmines could stoke climate crisis – study (Nov ’19) One in five Australians went hungry over past year, study finds (Oct ’19) Australia’s electricity market must be 100% renewables by 2035 to achieve net zero by 2050 – study … (Feb ’20) Morrison government to spend up to $4m in grant for feasibility study into coal-fired power plant in Queensland (Feb ’20)
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Reports
‘Expensive and underperforming’: energy audit finds gas power running well below capacity (Mar ’20)
One in eight people in Australia living in poverty, report finds (Feb ’20)
Methane emissions from coalmines could stoke climate crisis – study (Nov ’19)
Commonwealth Bank – Climate Risk Report (2019)
QLD Coal Revenue (State Govt Report)
Great Barrier Reef ‘too big to fail’ at $56b, Deloitte Access Economics report says (Jun ’17)
Liberal Party links to coal industry – report (May ’19)
Bringing them home: The ‘Stolen Children’ report (Apr ’97)
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Research
How to succeed in refugee review cases: new research reveals the factors that matter (Mar ’20) Climate change could lead to extinction of bumblebees, Canadian research finds (Feb ’20) Why do men kill their families? Here’s what the research says (Feb ’20) The Coalition wants to turn scientists into lapdogs – and muzzle climate research in the process (Feb ’20) Forced to build their own pyres: dozens more Aboriginal massacres revealed in Killing Times research (Nov ’19) We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong (Oct ’19) New research shows prejudice still high in Australia, but many people seeking to promote social inclusion (Dec ’19)
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Women
- Low-paid, young women: the grim truth about who this recession is hitting hardest (Jul '20)
- Did a tragic family secret influence Kate Sheppard’s mission to give New Zealand women the vote? (Jul '20)
- Young women are hit doubly hard by recessions, especially this one (May '20)
- Coronavirus supplement rollback could be 'devastating' for women in wake of pandemic (May '20)
- From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame (may '20)
- The secret weapon in the fight against coronavirus: women (Apr '20)
- The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist (Apr '20)
- Court of Appeal rules in favour of domestic violence victim who fled from Australia to New Zealand with her child (Apr ’20)
- These women traveled 4 hrs with 5 trucks of supplies to cook food for 150 tired Australian firefighters (Jan ’20)
- Australia Put Hundreds Of Women On A Tiny Island. There Are Just Eight Left. (Feb ’20)
- How two women from a conservative Queensland town made the deportation of a local Tamil family national news (Feb ’20)
- The drought is pushing rural women to breaking point, as doctors urge them to ‘get help early’ (Oct ’19)
- The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate (Jul ’19)
- In New Zealand, we are starting to value women’s work fairly. It’s time for the world to follow (Mar ’20)
- Women released from prison are at much greater risk of violence (Mar ’20)
- ‘I didn’t want to be homeless with a baby’: young women share their stories of homelessness (Jul ’19)
- What do single, older women want? Their ‘own little space’ (and garden) to call home, for a start (Oct ’17)
- Domestic violence: women’s safety advocates say Coalition is ignoring experts (Mar ‘20)
- Workplace bullying and why the 'rough and tumble' of a job is no excuse (Sep’18)
- The woman who loves garbage: Veena Sahajwalla on making the best of waste (Jan’16)
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Children
- 'The ground's been ripped from under them': mental health fears for the children of the pandemic (Aug '20)
- Helping kids accept their peers who have disabilities (Jul '20)
- Protecting the psychological health of children through effective communication about COVID-19 (Jul '20)
- Number of Australia’s vulnerable children is set to double as COVID-19 takes its toll (Jun '20)
- Music education helps improve children's ability to learn (may '20)
- Australian children remain trapped in al-Hawl camp as region braces for coronavirus (Apr '20)
- You’ll need a strong stomach to digest Revelation’s insights into child sexual abuse in the Catholic church (Mar ’20)
- ‘These children are in limbo’: the New Zealanders locked out of Australia’s NDIS (Feb ’20)
- Yes, the system needs to be better. But here’s how to ensure your child can access the NDIS if they need it (Feb ’20)
- Children’s access to disability funding depending on where they live dubbed ‘developmental apartheid’ (Feb ’20)
- ‘Mum, I want to go home’: parents say health system is failing disabled children (Feb ’20)
- Thinking about thinking helps kids learn. How can we teach critical thinking? (Jan '20)
- ‘I knew people who had harder lives than me’ – the Syrian refugee child who started a school (Dec ’17)
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Inequality
Coronavirus highlights the painful political truth about health inequality. Is social democracy the answer? (Apr '20) Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine – here’s what it means for equality (Sep ‘ 19) ‘Tackling the cycle of inequality of girls in the developing world by numbers (Oct ’19) Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001 (May ’19)
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Media
- Media have helped create a crisis of democracy - now they must play a vital role in its revival (Jun '20)
- Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal (Jun '20)
- Regional media get COVID lifeline but ABC, SBS remain in peril (Apr '20)
- Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous (Jan ’20)
- Sensationalist media is exacerbating racist coronavirus fears. We need to combat it (Feb ’20)
- #ChurchToo: Christian victims of abuse join social media outpouring (Feb ’20)
- Domestic violence: Report finds ‘clear link’ between media reporting and understanding of issue (Jun ’17)
- Framing Deadly Domestic Violence: Why the Media’s Spin Matters in Newspaper Coverage of Femicide (Feb ’13)
- When scandal means nothing, how can the media hold our leaders to account? (Feb ’20)
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Data
Our World in Data Coronavirus data modelling has Australia in good position, but COVID-19 ‘here to stay’ (Apr ’20) Government increases spend on Covid-19 data analytics as it declines to release modelling (Mar ‘20) Peter Dutton says 250 have been charged with arson. But the data tells a different story (Feb ’20) More than 120,000 people whose welfare was suspended were not at fault, data shows (Aug ’19) Fleecing Australia: Tax Office data dump shows the usual large culprits paying no tax (Dec ’19) Australian Border Deaths Database
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Evidence
Covid-19 coronavirus: More evidence indicates healthy people can spread it (Apr ’20) Hard evidence that Scott Morrison’s office was up to its collective neck in the rorting (Feb ’20) There’s no evidence ‘greenies’ block bushfire hazard reduction but here’s a controlled burn idea worth trying (Jan ’20) Blood, brains and foul murder: evidence of Australia's massacres is in its newspapers (Nov '19) There’s mounting evidence against cashless debit cards, but the government is ploughing on regardless (Nov ’19)
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Leadership
- The government does not need to import divisive leadership strategies from overseas (Jun ’20)
- The new leader of the free world (May ’20)
- Open, honest and effective: what makes Jacinda Ardern an authentic leader (May ’20)
- Why good leaders need to hold the hose: how history might read Morrison’s coronavirus leadership (May ’20)
- Why do female leaders seem to be more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis? (Apr ’20)
- Young people are anxious about coronavirus. Political leaders need to talk with them, not at them (Apr ’20)
- New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet (Apr ’20)
- Three reasons Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership (Apr ’20)
- Scott Morrison, here’s what you should do in 2020 to show leadership (Jan ’20)
- I marched against John Howard but he showed leadership in a way Scott Morrison is refusing to (Dec ’19)
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Loneliness
Reconnecting after coronavirus – 4 key ways cities can counter anxiety and loneliness (Apr ’20) Coronavirus: How loneliness is impacting society during lockdown (Apr '20) How loneliness helped me find my place in the world (Mar ’20) ‘I really have thought this can’t go on’: loneliness looms for rising numbers of older private renters (Jun '19) Loneliness is a health issue, and needs targeted solutions (may '18) The Common Thread of Loneliness (Apr '18)
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On living with a brain tumour, anxiety, kindness … and turning lemons into lemonade
The Power of Self Belief and Self Care; and the Scourge of Anxiety (Aug '19) Economics - The Failing Science (Apr '19) The Common Thread of Loneliness (Apr '18) Err on the Side of Kindness (Apr '18) The virtue of not knowing too much (Mar '18) A Profound Change (Nov '17) Turning Lemons into Lemonade (Apr '17)