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Editor's note
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Women’s genitals are as diverse as our faces, but you’d never know that by talking to a cosmetic surgeon. Some doctors’ websites peddle dangerous myths about what constitutes normal genitalia and claim surgery can deliver a more youthful, feminine and hygienic vulva. As Maggie Kirkman argues, it’s time for tougher regulation of medical advertising.
Meanwhile, in Hanoi, the much-anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un came to an abrupt end, without an agreement. Benjamin Habib writes that any meaningful breakthrough in the relationship is continually stalled by the “denuclearisation fantasy”.
And as you probably know, George Pell’s legal team have launched an appeal in an attempt to overturn the guilty verdict. We bring you a piece outlining how that would work and on what grounds an appeal could be pursued.
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Fron Jackson-Webb
Deputy Editor/Senior Health + Medicine Editor
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Some doctors’ websites make false claims to encourage women to have genital cosmetic surgery.
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Maggie Kirkman, Monash University
Some doctors' websites give the impression that women's genitals that diverge from the "ideal" need surgery. This is nonsense – genitals are as diverse as our faces.
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As the US-North Korea summit comes to an abrupt end, denuclearisation is a fantasy that is leaving Washington as the odd man out on the Korean Peninsula.
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Benjamin Habib, La Trobe University
Any meaningful breakthrough in the relationship between the US and North Korea is once again stalled by the insistence on denuclearisation.
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George Pell’s lawyer, Robert Richter, said he will appeal the guilty verdict.
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David Hamer, University of Sydney
George Pell's conviction has opened a rift in Australian society, with many people questioning the guilty verdict. Pell's lawyer has said he will appeal. On what grounds could he do that?
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Environment + Energy
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David Jones, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Lynette Bettio, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Skie Tobin, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
The hottest Australian summer on record is ending, and it's likely we've got a warm, dry autumn to come.
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Politics + Society
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Tony Walker, La Trobe University
The standoff over Australian coal imports through Dalian sends a powerful political message: that Beijing can turn imports off and on at will.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
According to qualitative research in the seat this week, Steggall is yet to embed herself in the mind of those voters who are potentially willing to turn against Abbott.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Sydney electorate of Warringah will be one of the most fascinating battlegrounds in the May election, with a high profile independent Zali Stegall challenging former prime minister Tony Abbott.
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
With a long history in the media and public life, Ita Buttrose's appointment is a decision the government may have gotten right.
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Education
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Melissa Kang, University of Technology Sydney
It is normal for girls and women to masturbate, and there are even health benefits.
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Business + Economy
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Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University
Supertaxes on very high earners needn't be a problem.
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Richard Holden, UNSW
There are limits on how much governments can spend without earning, although increasingly politicians are behaving as if there are not.
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Giovanni Di Lieto, Monash University
Trade wars are generally bad. But far worse for Australia is that the US and China make peace through a deal to establish a bilateral world order.
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Science + Technology
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Richard Matthews, University of Adelaide
The danger with car hacking isn't terrorists taking control of your car (as movies might have you think), but the age old problem of dodgy mechanics getting you to spend more on servicing it.
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Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University; Matthew Gray, Australian National University
Australians aren't confident that the government can be trusted with their data, or that is has the right safeguards in place to protect it.
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Arts + Culture
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Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW
Nora Heysen was the first woman to be awarded the Archibald Prize, but for most of her life she was defined not by her art, but by her relationship to her famous father, the artist Hans Heysen.
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Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne
At her birth in 1901 she was registered with the name 'girlie', not really a name at all. But from this assigned anonymity, Hsieh Hsüeh-hung became a courageous and tenacious revolutionary.
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Cities
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Redento B. Recio, University of Melbourne
Street vendors are the most visible of the people who work in the informal sector – up to half the urban workforce in cities like Manila – but whose needs and rights receive no official recognition.
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Health + Medicine
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Hannah Brown, University of Adelaide
Semi-identical or sesquizygotic twins occur when two sperm fertilise one egg. A boy and a girl in Brisbane are only the second set of semi-identical twins known in the world.
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