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Editor's note
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We’ve heard a lot recently about whether journalism, or at least the business of it, has a future, and what that might look like. It comes amid seemingly endless job cuts in “traditional” media, the Ten Network going into voluntary administration, and the rise of “fake news” and “clickbait”. As media players today make final submissions to a Senate inquiry on the matter, we begin a series looking at all facets of
public interest journalism.
And as fears grow of more deaths from London’s horrific Grenfell Tower fire, it has become clear the disaster was preventable and residents’ warnings were ignored.
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Top story
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Andy Rain/EPA
Feng Fu, City, University of London
Massive damage and suffering was caused when a London tower block became an inferno.
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Environment + Energy
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Joseph Downing, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
As fire tore through Grenfell Tower, I witnessed the complete and terrible destruction of 120 homes just like the one I grew up in.
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Alienor Chauvenet, The University of Queensland
Zoos' role in conservation is divisive, but in Australia they could be critical in securing and even recovering threatened species.
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Politics + Society
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Andrea Carson, University of Melbourne
Public interest journalism exposes corruption and wrongdoers, and holds the powerful to account. But it is increasingly under threat, and we need to find ways to protect it.
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Alex Reilly, University of Adelaide
The case provided a platform to lay bare the ugly reality of conditions in detention, and the role of the Commonwealth and its contractors in producing and sustaining those conditions over many years.
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Stephanie Kovalchik, Victoria University
The unpredictability of women's tennis in 2017 should make us strongly question the performance of the official rankings – and not simply the players’ performance.
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Business + Economy
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Julie Walker, The University of Queensland
The amplified public concerns about executive pay that led to the cementing of reporting and disclosure into law, may start trend of voluntary disclosure among professional bodies.
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Marc C-Scott, Victoria University
Ten Network has been placed in voluntary administration, after major shareholders refused to guarantee another loan.
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Efrem Castelnuovo, University of Melbourne
New research shows uncertainty isn't the cause of slow economic growth. But that could change if the government isn't clearer about policies.
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Science + Technology
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Brian Abbey, La Trobe University
The €1.22 billion XFEL will generate ultrashort X-ray flashes to capture molecules in motion to answer medical and scientific questions. But will the investment be worth it?
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Michael P. Hughes, Francis Marion University
The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.
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Robert Merkel, Monash University
The Australian government wants to access encrypted messages, but don't call it a "backdoor".
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Elen Shute, Flinders University; Gavin Prideaux, Flinders University; Trevor H. Worthy, Flinders University
Large birds once lived across Australia, only to become extinct around the time that giant marsupials and other megafauna died out during the Pleistocene "ice ages".
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Arts + Culture
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Colin Yeo, University of Western Australia
The new mummy film is the latest foray into 'shared universes', the seemingly critic-proof movie juggernauts that have come to dominate our cinemas.
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Svenja J. Kratz, University of Tasmania
Hobart's Dark Mofo deals with plenty of challenging subjects but seeing it with a child can highlight the wonder of intuitively experiencing art.
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Health + Medicine
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Monique Robinson, University of Western Australia
Anecdotes suggest moods are different depending on the sex of the baby - but this is not backed up by science.
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David King, The University of Queensland
If you have a blocked or runny nose, chances are you'll reach for a tissue or hanky for a good blow. But is your technique up to scratch?
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Education
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Stephen Lamb, Victoria University; Shuyan Huo, Victoria University
Achievement is largely locked in by the age of 25, so those who do not have a Year 12 qualification by then are unlikely ever to have one.
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Tess Ryan, University of Canberra
For the past 30 years, this Indigenous owned and controlled school has been quietly achieving results. Here's what the school board president says is behind their success.
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Cities
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Karen Strojek, La Trobe University
Sir Robert Richard Torrens – the man behind Australia’s 'Torrens system' of land-title registration – was an economic liberal who might have approved of privatising title registries.
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Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia — University of Sydney
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Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia — University of Sydney
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