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Editor's note
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It’s now clear that a federal election campaign centred on border security has well and truly begun. In a new episode of our podcast Trust Me, I’m An Expert, refugee law expert Daniel Ghezelbash busts several myths about how the asylum seeker “medevac” bill would work, and describes as “reckless” claims that the new legislation represents a destruction of Australia’s border security. He also outlines a policy alternative to our current system
of offshore processing he says wouldn’t involve compromising security or shirking our international legal obligations.
On a different note, in our Friday essay, we reflect on pop culture’s limited view of nurses. As Donna Lee Brien and Margaret McAllister write, nurses in film and TV shows are commonly depicted as either selfless carers or selfish monsters. Rarely are the pressures of the job explored in a meaningful way.
And, the paradox of waste is that developed countries with industrial recycling actually recycle very little of their left-over electronics. Developing nations like India, however, sort, strip and re-sell millions of tonnes of e-waste – but 95% of the work is done by local workers by hand, in appalling conditions. India even imports e-waste from other countries, possibly from Australia, to be sorted by the desperately poor.
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Sunanda Creagh
Head of Digital Storytelling
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other Coalition MPs described Labor as weak on borders after the opposition and the crossbench voted to pass a bill allowing medical transfers from Manus and Nauru.
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation
Today on Trust Me, I'm An Expert, a refugee legal expert busts myths about how proposed medical transfer rules would work, and described some of this week's border security rhetoric as 'reckless'.
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Nurse Ratched in the 1975 film One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Netflix is now producing a TV series built around this character, to star Sarah Paulson.
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Donna Lee Brien, CQUniversity Australia; Margaret McAllister, CQUniversity Australia
To the public, nursing is much like teaching work – known to be valuable, but not worthy of much critical attention. Accordingly, nursing is rarely represented in any depth in popular culture.
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The vast majority of e-waste in India is processed by hand.
Miles Parl
Miles Park, UNSW
For as little as $4 a day Indian workers process dangerous, toxic waste by hand. This unregulated, highly polluting industry is hidden away from police eyes.
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Politics + Society
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Anna Hayes, James Cook University
The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority group living China's Xinjiang region. It is now estimated over one million Uyghurs have been arrested and imprisoned in China's vast network of "re-education" camps.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
If the government really intends to “reopen” Christmas Island in any major way, it could find itself spending a lot of money there on few if any people.
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Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University
Some targets seem easier to meet than others, while some are just plain unreliable. Here are four things we've learnt from the last decade of Closing the Gap policy.
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Science + Technology
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Mark Green, University of Melbourne; Andrew Pask, University of Melbourne
Disorders affecting penis development are among the most common birth defects seen in humans, and rates are on the rise.
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Health + Medicine
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Nicholas T. Van Dam, University of Melbourne; Lisa Phillips, University of Melbourne
Early intervention is a proven way to address the burden of mental ill health. We just need to better understand who is at risk of developing a mental disorder – and how best to treat them.
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Sanjaya Senanayake, Australian National University
The bacteria that causes melioidosis usually lives 30cm underground in clay soil but is dredged to the surface during heavy rains and floods, and can enter the body through small breaks in the skin.
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Business + Economy
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Richard Holden, UNSW
Do regulators act in the public interest, or in the interest of those they are meant to regulate?
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Saurav Dutta, Curtin University; Harjinder Singh, Curtin University; Nigar Sultana, Curtin University
Easy credit services like Zip trade on the individual's belief that their income rise in the future.
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Environment + Energy
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Albert Van Dijk, Australian National University
We can't make it rain. But you are already helping if you don't use more water than you need. And you can talk to your parents about the planet getting warmer, because the heat makes drought worse.
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Arts + Culture
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Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Edith Cowan University
Love Studies, a relatively new academic field, looks at topics ranging from popular romance novels to issues of consent in the bedroom.
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Education
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Brian Lovell, The University of Queensland
New technologies like facial recognition are coming – whether we like it or not. We can't turn back the tide, but we can manage new technology to do the least harm and most good.
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