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Australia could play a leading role in the regulation of the new media giants Google and Facebook, write Sacha Molitorisz and Derek Wilding, after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission yesterday released a landmark series of draft recommendations aimed at supporting journalism as a public good, protecting our privacy and limiting the ability of media companies to manipulate the news that’s served up in news feeds and search
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Meanwhile, according to a new report, the rates of Indigenous incarceration – already a national disgrace – are continuing to rise. As Sophie Russell and Chris Cunneen point out, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians make up 2% of the general population, but 28% of the prison population. But a new approach of “justice reinvestment” may point to a way forward. A trial program in Burke, NSW, has had a profound impact, with a 23%
reduction in police-recorded incidents of domestic violence and a 42% reduction in days spent in custody for adults. Moreover, it achieved savings to the criminal justice system and the broader community of $3.1million.
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Peter Martin
Editor, Business and Economy
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Top story
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The Competition and Consumer Commission is worried about the ability of the platforms we use to determine the news we read.
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Sacha Molitorisz, University of Technology Sydney; Derek Wilding, University of Technology Sydney
Australia might become the first country in the world to submit Google and Facebook's algorithms to a public interest test.
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It is a national shame that Indigenous people make up 2% of the general population, but 28% of the prison population.
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Sophie Russell, UNSW; Chris Cunneen, University of Technology Sydney
Indigenous Australians are vastly over-represented in the prison population, but the success of a new program is offering hope that it can be turned around.
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