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News
8 Oct 2016
Leaked UN report: Manus world’s worst
Martin McKenzie-Murray
As the government prepares to meet with the UNHCR, urgent action is being demanded on mental decay.
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News
8 Oct 2016
Millions caught in health records breach
Sussan Ley did not explain why, when doctors who discover a privacy breach are obliged to alert those affected immediately, the government waited 16 days.
Karen Middleton
The government’s negotiations with doctors over the Medicare rebate is not helped by a breach of privacy on apparently anonymised health data.
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Opinion
8 Oct 2016
The big bank query
ANZ’s Shayne Elliott, like CBA’s Ian Narev, came to the parliamentary hearing in sackcloth and ashes. But the penitent’s garb could impress only the most gullible.
Paul Bongiorno
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8 Oct 2016
Unhealthy climate
Because of the role I played in advocating for science, I believe I’ve been a nuisance to management, and they were seeking to reduce that influence.
Cheryl Jones
A senior researcher to be sacked from the CSIRO’s new Oceans and Atmosphere unit considers it retaliation for his role as an outspoken critic of changes in the agency’s focus.
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News
8 Oct 2016
Schools of injustice
Australia, like a number of other countries that are sliding on international comparisons, tends to have a competitive, punitive approach to underperforming schools, threatening their funding.
Mike Seccombe
As elite private schools continue to benefit from government funding, Australian education standards are sliding in global terms and politicians remain reluctant to take a stand.
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News
8 Oct 2016
Oil on troubled waters
Gabrielle Dunlevy
West Timorese seaweed farmers have launched a class action against Montara for the devastating 2009 oil spill that has threatened their livelihoods.
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Opinion
8 Oct 2016
Speech defects
It is not a matter of personal freedom for individuals to have their two cents’ worth, but only of ensuring ‘the free flow of ideas’.
Tony Blackshield
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World
8 Oct 2016
US hangs up on Russia over Aleppo bombing
Hamish McDonald
Trump and Clinton recruit former CIA chiefs; Insiders vie to be Jakarta’s governor; Referendum blues in Hungary and Colombia
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Culture
8 Oct 2016
Prying Eno
Relentlessly breaking the fourth wall, even casting the performance’s audience as characters, American playwright Will Eno strives to deliver meaningful experience.
Darryn King
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Film
8 Oct 2016
Cinque terror
In examining Australian society via a heinous true crime, Joe Cinque’s Consolation forces us to look at ourselves.
Christos Tsiolkas
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Diary
8 Oct 2016
Gadfly: Race to the bottoms
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flies about the nation.
Richard Ackland
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Life
8 Oct 2016
Choose control
As her tumour returns, Georgia Blain knows the greatest comfort available to her would be the right to choose how she dies.
Georgia Blain
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Books
8 Oct 2016
Bob Ellis, Bob Ellis: In His Own Words
Reviewer: PT
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Books
8 Oct 2016
Katherine Johnson, The Better Son
Reviewer: KN
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Books
8 Oct 2016
Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
Reviewer: EA
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Food
8 Oct 2016
Spring vegetable salad, herb dressing and soft duck egg
Why you can never use too many herbs.
Andrew McConnell
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Architecture
8 Oct 2016
Bamboo ceiling
The bamboo, rope and wooden pegs of Mumbai architect Bijoy Jain’s MPavilion are in keeping with a global trend in handmade building, even if not everyone can afford it.
Andrew Mackenzie
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Portrait
8 Oct 2016
Whose vault is it anyway?
Fairfield’s Dauntless Movement Crew parkour performers.
Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Quiz
8 Oct 2016
What is the largest island in the Caribbean?
Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.
Cindy MacDonald
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Sport
8 Oct 2016
Passion play
Emotion in motion: Sharni Layton on the heart she brings to the netball court.
Cindy MacDonald