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Editor's note
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After Friday’s terror attack in Melbourne, Prime Minister Scott Morrison put the onus on Muslim leaders to do more to prevent terrorism by urging them not to “look the other way”.
But as Greg Barton writes, this is not only unfair, it’s unrealistic. The only way to prevent at-risk youths being radicalised is to devote more resources to community-based intervention programs, which are quietly having considerable success turning troubled lives around.
And, after the attack, social media platforms were flooded with emoji-laden messages expressing hate and anger towards Muslims and Islam. It’s an example of a less well known side of emoji, according to Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández. While emoji are generally considered a bit of harmless fun, they can be used to spread racism on social media in ways that make it seem normal, mundane and acceptable.
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Justin Bergman
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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Mourners pay their respects to Sisto Malaspina, co-owner of Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar, who was killed in Friday’s terror attack.
James Ross/AAP
Greg Barton, Deakin University
While broad-based counter-terrorism strategies aren't very effective at preventing lone-actor attacks, community outreach efforts are having success turning troubled young lives around.
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Emoji can cloak microaggressions in humour and play.
Andre Hunter/Unsplash
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Queensland University of Technology
Emoji can be used on social media to spread racism in ways that make it seem normal, mundane and acceptable.
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Detail from George Baldessin MM of Rue St Denis 1976charcoal and black chalk 119.9 x 80.6 cm.
National Gallery of Victoria, MelbournePurchased with the assistance of The Docking Drawing Fund (NGV), 2001 (2001.537)© The Estate of George Baldessin
Ted Snell, University of Western Australia
The images of Mary Magdalene made by Australian artist George Baldessin in the years before his sudden death in a car accident in 1977 are some of his most powerful works.
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Science + Technology
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Jacqueline Stephens, University of South Australia
Important research questions can almost always be answered better with a combination of methods – where both quantitive and qualitative data play a role.
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Stephen Bosi, University of New England
The energy needed to pull magnets apart comes from you, and you get it from the food you eat. And the plants or animals you eat get their energy from other plants and animals, or from the Sun. All energy comes from somewhere.
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Education
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Linda J. Graham, Queensland University of Technology
There is conclusive evidence that in most cases, suspension only reinforces negative behaviour.
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FactCheck
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Ray Markey, Macquarie University
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said "you can’t reflect society if 90% of your members of parliament were chosen from trade unions and worked in trade unions". Let's take a look at the numbers.
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Cities
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Brendan F.D. Barrett, Osaka University; Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University
The city where the Kyoto Protocol was signed resolved some years ago to move away from cars and towards low-emission alternatives for getting around. And it's making real progress towards that goal.
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Business + Economy
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Adam Triggs, Australian National University
In the midst of the information technology revolution, Australia's productivity growth has been slowing. It ought to have been the other way around.
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Health + Medicine
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Anusch Yazdani, The University of Queensland; Mike Armour, Western Sydney University
Adenomyosis is a different condition to endometriosis, though many women who have one will have the other.
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Lito Papanicolas, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute; Geraint Rogers, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
Probiotics might avert a case of diarrhoea, or they could mean your gut takes longer to return to normal.
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Arts + Culture
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William Peterson, Flinders University
This play is in fact two plays woven together, one being a tragic love story, the other a farce set in a mythical land.
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Politics + Society
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Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
Fijians go to the polls this week in only the second general election since a 2006 coup in which the current prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, seized power. He won an election in 2014.
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
And for the first time since the 1999 republic referendum, those opposed to a republic outnumber those in favour of it.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Newspolls have been consistently worse for the Coalition since the
leadership change – before that Labor had been cut back to a narrow 51-49% lead.
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