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Editor's note
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Many older Australians want to stay in their homes for as long as possible but at last count, more than 127,000 were waiting for a home care package that met their needs. But the solution isn’t as simple as uncapping the number of home care packages, according to Michael Woods and Sarah Wise.
Plastic pollution is a global problem, but last week a small group of countries effectively stalled negotiations on an international solution. Despite strong arguments at a meeting of UN experts tasked with laying out the terms of a possible treaty, we’re no closer to a viable solution. But, writes Trisia Farrelly, we can’t stop now.
The shocking mass-shooting in Christchurch is the latest in a string of performance crime videos that use livestreaming and social media as part of their tactics, writes Stuart Bender. And in a media environment driven in large part by spectacle, we all have a role to play in ensuring terrorists’ crimes aren’t rewarded with our clicks.
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Fron Jackson-Webb
Deputy Editor/Senior Health + Medicine Editor
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Top story
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In December, more than 127,000 Australians were waiting for a home care package.
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Michael Woods, University of Technology Sydney; Sarah Wise, University of Technology Sydney
The government will keep increasing the number of subsidised home care services, but it needs to find the right funding balance for the system to remain sustainable.
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The world urgently needs to move past plastic.
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Trisia Farrelly, Massey University
We need a global treaty to combat plastic pollution, but a small group of countries is blocking real action.
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There is a tragic history of performance crime videos that use livestreaming and social platforms as part of their tactics.
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Stuart M Bender, Curtin University
Until social platforms improve filtering of extremist content, we all have a role to play in ensuring our online activities don't contribute to a spectacle society that rewards terrorists with clicks.
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Environment + Energy
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Rachel Allavena, The University of Queensland
Backyard burial for your beloved animals raises some surprising problems.
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Cities
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Thomas Sigler, The University of Queensland; Elin Charles-Edwards, The University of Queensland
Married at First Sight may not actually be unscripted 'reality TV', but it does provide a demographic reality check.
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Education
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Joseph Ciarrochi, Australian Catholic University
We know being nice is good for friendships. But we wanted to find out why some antisocial people are socially successful. So we looked at whether rebels had more friends in high school than nice kids.
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Science + Technology
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Joanne Orlando, Western Sydney University
Six tips on how to check out that latest online threat that's targeting your children. How you can easily tell if it's real or just another hoax?
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Politics + Society
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Fiona McGaughey, University of Western Australia; Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle
From the prime minister's public comments to Australia's diplomatic behaviour, there is considerable room for improvement if we are to be "fair dinkum" about gender equality.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
In his address in the wake of the New Zealand attack, on the theme of managing differences, Morrison said it was not a matter of “disagreeing less, but disagreeing better”.
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
Recent polling indicates that no one party will be able to win a majority government in the upcoming NSW election, with Labor needing to gain six seats to deprive the Coalition from a victory.
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Joe Burton, University of Waikato
Globally, Muslims have been by far the most victimised group by terrorism in the post-9/11 era.
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Arts + Culture
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Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia
Antoinette de Saint-Étienne was a Canadian First Nations woman of the 17th century whose beautiful singing voice attracted the attention of a queen.
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William Peterson, Flinders University
Hofesh Shechter's latest contemporary dance work is not the rousing narrative its title might suggest. Its dancers inhabit a global catastrophe and then a brutal new world order.
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Business + Economy
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Rosalind Dixon, UNSW; Richard Holden, UNSW
What if we were part-paid in something that was like shares in the firm we worked for, except better. It might give us better pay rises.
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Jillian Ryan, CSIRO; Carla Litchfield, University of South Australia
When it comes to giant pandas, politics, economics and international diplomacy often eclipse conservation considerations.
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