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Editor's note
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A notice from the army might be the first a family might hear of the death of a loved one in World War 2. It was the Red Cross that provided solace for 58,000 families during the war, following up and tracing what happened to soldiers. Fiona Ross describes the tragedies and trauma contained in these newly-released archives.
And on a different note, Marilyn McMahon will be answering your questions about her piece on the problems of naming suspects in criminal cases. Post your questions in the comments section from 11am to 12pm today
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James Whitmore
Editor, Environment & Energy
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Top story
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Australians shelter from Japanese snipers in Borneo, 1945.
Australian War Memorial collection/Flickr
Fiona Ross, University of Melbourne
There are about 59,000 cards in archival boxes from the Red Cross's WW2 enquiry service. While their language is impersonal, the golden rule was to provide solace to soldiers' families, and fast.
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Arts + Culture
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Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney
Western media continues to sell Muslims as perpetrators of savagery, deprivation and torture. But a new exhibit by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia challenges us to see beyond these depictions.
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Education
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Nicola Bell, The University of Queensland
We are not hard-wired to read. It has taken thousands of years of practice to forge connections in our brains to help us do this.
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Claire Shaw, The Conversation
Students who take longer to complete their degree will be hit hard by fee hikes.
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Health + Medicine
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Hannah Rose Wardill, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute; Rachel Jane Gibson, University of South Australia
The composition of bacteria in our gut regulates our immune system. Modifying it - through poo transplants for example - can control cancer risk, as well as response to treatment.
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Paul Keall, University of Sydney
Getting the right amount of radiation is a fine balance between therapy and harm. A common way to improve the benefit-to-cure ratio is to fire multiple beams at the tumour from different directions.
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Cities
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Rachel Ong, Curtin University
The budget acknowledges the crisis of affordability for first home buyers, but fails to do enough about demand pressures on prices to put home ownership back within their reach.
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Emma Power, Western Sydney University
For the majority of Australia’s renters, housing will remain unaffordable, insecure, and out of reach following the 2017-18 federal budget.
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Julie Lawson, RMIT University
The bond aggregator by itself cannot create a housing development pipeline. It needs co-investment from government to make it feasible.
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Politics + Society
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Susan Carland, Monash University
Much of the non-Muslim world appears dismissive of the value Islam can have in Muslim women’s lives, but Islam is a crucial tool in the work of gender justice.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Despite the hefty tax imposts in Tuesday’s budget Finance Minister Mathias Cormann still insists the fiscal problem was a spending rather than a revenue one.
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Andrea Carson, University of Melbourne
As the federal government looks to reform media ownership laws, the Australian media environment - in diversity and stability- is looking decidedly shaky.
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Science + Technology
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Tara Murphy, University of Sydney
Science today is increasingly data-driven, but our education system has not caught up.
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Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology; Juxi Leitner, Queensland University of Technology
The latest outing of the Alien film franchise pits another human crew against a terrifying enemy. But how does the science stack up?
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Tara Djokic, UNSW
Life on the land could have started millions of years earlier on Earth than first thought. This could change the way we think about life developing elsewhere in the universe.
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Environment + Energy
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Anna Mortimore, Griffith University
The Australian market is awash with highly polluting cars. But there are a couple of key resources to help you find the best vehicle that fits your needs.
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Business + Economy
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Kevin Davis, Australian Centre for Financial Studies
The new levy on banks from the budget is a small hit to their profit but it could have unintended consequences.
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