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Editor's note
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Just hours remain before the Cassini spacecraft takes its final plunge into Saturn. The last signals it sends to Earth will be picked up first by the CSIRO-run NASA tracking station in Canberra. As the station’s Ed Kruzins writes, the probe’s destruction in the ringed planet’s atmosphere will mark an emotional end to its 20-year mission.
Plus you shouldn’t miss today’s Friday essay. When the HIV/AIDS crisis arrived in Australia in 1982, volunteers drove a massive, and successful, public health response, often at great personal cost. Shirleene Roberts argues it’s time to recognise these unsung heroes.
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Michael Lund
Deputy Science and Technology Editor
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An illustration of Cassini as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Ed Kruzins, CSIRO; Richard Stephenson, CSIRO
The last signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn's atmosphere will tracked by the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.
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Arts + Culture
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Shirleene Robinson, Macquarie University
The AIDS crisis arrived in Australia in 1982 and triggered an enormous (and successful) public health response, largely driven by volunteers. These people, often from marginalised communities in their own right, deserve recognition in Australia's proud volunteer tradition.
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Aaron Corn, University of Adelaide
The songs of Tribal Voice offered hope and strength to generations of Yolŋu people and gave audiences elsewhere a rare insight into the resolve and aspirations of Indigenous Australia.
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Politics + Society
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Rob Manwaring, Flinders University
The centre-left has had a torrid year, particularly in Europe, but there are glimmers of hope on the horizon and hope for it to regroup.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
As coal has muscled its way to the centre of the stage, we've seen the showdown between the government and AGL over the future of its Liddell coal-fired power station. This battle has a way to go.
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Andrew Lynch, UNSW
The release of the much-awaited papers from the parliamentary archives will lead to new appraisals of the High Court judge and Labor Senator's life and work - including his alleged misbehaviour.
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David Rolph, University of Sydney; Michael Douglas, University of Sydney
Rebel Wilson's large damages award for defamation is a salutary lesson that defaming a celebrity with an international profile can lead to a substantial payout for the economic harm done.
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Tim Dwyer, University of Sydney
The last-minute bargaining on media reforms are a minimalistic band-aid response that will do nothing to prevent further concentration of Australia’s media landscape.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Klekociuk, University of Tasmania; Paul Krummel, CSIRO
The treaty to limit the destruction of the ozone layer is hailed as the most successful environmental agreement of all time. Three decades on, the ozone layer is slowly but surely returning to health.
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Health + Medicine
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Nural Cokcetin, University of Technology Sydney; Shona Blair
Manuka honey has a lot of evidence-based benefits, and a lot of rubbish claims too.
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Michael Dockery, Curtin University
Much has been written about success of Indigenous players at elite levels of the game. But perhaps the more important story is one of Indigenous participation in grass roots and community football.
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Business + Economy
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Weihuan Zhou, UNSW
A trade dispute between Australia and Indonesia shines a spotlight on Australia's controversial 'anti-dumping' practices at the World Trade Organisation.
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A J Brown, Griffith University
We need to reform whistleblower protections if we want them to help maintain the integrity of government, business and non-profits.
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Education
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Megan O'Connell, Victoria University
Australia has the third most expensive education system in the OECD, but we might not be getting what we pay for.
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Science + Technology
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Colin Klein, Macquarie University
We have far more to worry about from outdated science that embodies dubious prejudices than we do from deep learning networks.
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Michael Cowling, CQUniversity Australia
Apple's iPhone X is here, which means its push into augmented reality begins in earnest.
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