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Editor's note
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Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based deep space tracking stations. And yet the data gathered as a result bypasses our country, writes astrophysicist Simon Driver.
He says it’s time Australia had its own space agency to capitalise on our history working with NASA and boost our entry into the expanding commercial space industry.
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Charis Palmer
Deputy Editor
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Top story
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A rocket carrying the NBN’s Sky Muster II satellite. Perhaps one day Australia might have more direct involvement in space activities.
AAP Image/National Broadband Network
Simon Driver, University of Western Australia
An Australian Space Agency could capitalise on our history working with NASA and the ESA and boost our entry into the expanding commercial space industry.
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Health + Medicine
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Stephen Bright, Edith Cowan University; Martin Williams, Monash University
Media reports tend to link violence to illicit drugs when alcohol is far more likely to be to blame.
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Karen Willis, Australian Catholic University; Sophie Lewis, University of Sydney
Each year private health insurance funds lobby the government to increase private health insurance premiums. They claim increases are warranted because of increasing costs.
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Business + Economy
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David Byrne, University of Melbourne
New analysis of the behaviour of petrol retailers in Perth over a period of five years shows how tacit collusion caused prices to increase by up to 50%.
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Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney
It’s not just that Ahmed Fahour earns a lot of money. Australia Post had, until this week, been able to keep its CEO's salary top secret.
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Charles Livingstone, Monash University
No state wants to see its revenue base decline – particularly when the jurisdiction benefiting doesn’t even tax (or regulate) its bookies as well as it might.
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Politics + Society
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Katherine McFarlane, Charles Sturt University
Few people are talking about how children in residential care and those in juvenile jail are essentially the same people.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Eighteen groups have issued a plea for political leaders to "stop partisan antics" and work together to achieve energy reform.
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Fiona McGaughey, University of Western Australia
The announcement that Australia will implement a United Nations optional protocol adds an important safeguard for the proper treatment of prisoners and other detainees.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Tony Abbott's proposal for a constitutional change to make it easier for a government to pass legislation blocked by the Senate does not have support in his own electorate, according to polling.
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FactCheck
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Peter Goss, Grattan Institute
Tanya Plibersek, shadow minister for education, told reporters recently that Australia is slightly below average when it comes to international funding for our schools. Is that right?
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Education
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Jessica Gerrard, University of Melbourne
Public schools are spaces in which equality can either be supported or weakened.
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Arts + Culture
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Joy McEntee, University of Adelaide
Hunter S Thompson's 1971 book is a torpedo ride through some of the strangest scenes in American fact, or fiction. It's about greed, the souring of '60s idealism, the failings of journalism and much more.
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Environment + Energy
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Brendan Kelaher, Southern Cross University; Andrew Colefax, Southern Cross University; Bob Creese, Southern Cross University; Paul Butcher, Southern Cross University; Vic Peddemors, Sydney Institute of Marine Science
LIfeguards could potentially have a new ally in the fight to reduce shark incidents: drones that can spot when a shark swims nearby, and automatically alert authorities.
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Hugh Saddler, Australian National University
South Australia's government was angry about the blackouts enforced by electricity regulators. But with much of the state's gas power offline, the regulators had little choice.
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Science + Technology
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Alister Graham, Swinburne University of Technology
The discovery of a new black hole adds to our understanding of these celestial objects that fascinate in both fact and fiction.
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