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The exact circumstances of the death are still being determined, but police say it is not being treated as suspicious
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Of the millions of perpetrators of online harassment, Zane Alchin of Sydney is among the few to have been prosecuted – and his victim says it took a media campaign
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Children in solitary confinement: we must stop treating kids in the system like adults
Anna CopelandWe have lost our way because we’ve forgotten that children are entitled to special protections, even those who behave badly, who are violent or criminal -
Lessons from Ireland: is it possible to have respectful disagreement on marriage equality?
Gay AlcornA plebiscite might be a chance to show how we can disagree with each other with vigour without abusing each other. It might actually bring us together -
The ABC chief addresses the Australian’s forum and refrains from naming the broadcaster’s chief critic, while the Daily Telegraph refuses to back down over Harriet Wran
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The news isn't good: doctors, patients, and the confronting conversation about terminal cancer
Ranjana SrivastavaA recent study shows staggering discord between doctor and patient perception when it comes to cancer prognosis and projections of survival
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Scovia Anzoa and Akoor Dhelbai, who came to Australia on humanitarian visas talk about their passion for playing Aussie Rules
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Australian actor Margot Robbie describes a Vanity Fair profile of her as a ‘really odd interview’
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CCTV footage aired by the ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday night shows a teenage boy being seized by staff, stripped naked and left alone
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The Human Rights Commission president responds to shocking footage from a Darwin detention centre showing the abuse of children on Q&A.
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ABC’s Four Corners program reveals teenagers being hooded, teargassed and left in solitary confinement for days, sparking a royal commission
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Ordered to amputate the limbs of deserters from the Iraqi army or be shot, Dr Munjed Al Muderis hid and fled. In the latest film in the Guardian’s series on refugees in Australia, he tells his astonishing story: how he went on to Christmas Island, spent 10 months in a detention centre and now carries out pioneering reconstructive surgery in Sydney, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. ‘I was born very comfortably, I had a silver spoon in my mouth … I never expected that I would end up in a boat coming to Australia’
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