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Editor's note
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Imagine: you have an abusive ex-partner who won’t stop visiting your new address. According to criteria for the “the couple rule” in Australia’s social security laws, this “frequent visiting” is evidence of a continued relationship. Centrelink can then deny you welfare payment, and even punish you for social security fraud.
Lyndal Sleep explains how the couple rule fails victims of domestic violence, tying women’s access to social security payment to the assets and income of their perpetrator.
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Anthea Batsakis
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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Financial abuse can be misinterpreted as ‘sharing finances’, which can indicate a relationship in the criteria of the couple rule.
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Lyndal Sleep, Griffith University
Tying Centrelink payments to a partner can trap women in violent relationships.
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A giant guitarfish caught in West Papua is hung from a fishing boat. Guitarfish are in trouble, according to the IUCN Red List.
Conservation International/Abdy Hasan
Peter Kyne, Charles Darwin University
An update of the IUCN Red List attempts to map the real extent of global biodiversity loss.
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It’s now widely observed that Morrison and President Donald Trump have struck an early bromance.
AAP/Lukas Coch
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
While Morrison appears to have built a strong relationship with the idiosyncratic US president, there are several foreign policy challenges ahead.
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A Royal Victorian Small Homes House, designed in conjuction with The Age newspaper, 1955.
Photo: Wolfgang Sievers. Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria
Kirsty Volz, The University of Queensland
Renewed interest in mid-century modern houses is more about substance than style. They represent the emergence of a new spirit and a coming of age in postwar Australia.
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Cities
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Matthew Finch, University of Southern Queensland
We commonly think of libraries as repositories of knowledge accumulated over centuries. But the public library also connects people in ways that can enable communities to plan for their future.
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Education
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Megan O'Connell, University of Melbourne
In 2009, Australian governments made an agreement to provide all four-year-olds with access to preschool delivered by a trained teacher from 2013. We're a long way from this goal.
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Science + Technology
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John Sarkissian, CSIRO
When Neil Armstrong stepped on to the Moon 50 years ago this month, Australians saw the images first. Australia even defied bad weather to bring the historic images to the world.
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Alice Gorman, Flinders University
Just 12 people stepped on the Moon during the Apollo missions, but they left more than just footprints. It's a legacy that needs protecting from damage by any future Moon missions.
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Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland
Just 12 people have walked on the Moon and they'll know better than anyone just how big (or small) the place is. But we can make some comparisons with things on Earth to get a measure of the Moon.
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Arts + Culture
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David Larkin, University of Sydney
A new opera focuses more on the personal life of artist Brett Whiteley than his artistic creations. As the opera reveals, a life like Whiteley’s does not offer a clear moral message.
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Politics + Society
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Ben Walker, Victoria University of Wellington; Dan Caprar, University of Sydney
Work already affects many people's sense of self-worth, but now new research suggests that it's not only what we do, but how good we are at it, that affects how we see ourselves.
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Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Yang's detainment is set to further complicate Australia's relationship with China.
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Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt University
China’s aggressive program of acquiring technology from abroad should be a cause of concern for Australian universities. Yet, our system of vetting research collaborations is clearly broken.
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
Joe Biden remains the favourite in the Democratic race - but there are question marks over whether he can beat Donald Trump.
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Rona Macniven, University of Sydney; John Evans, University of Technology Sydney; Rachel Wilson, University of Sydney
A review of 20 studies shows that sport can improve outcomes for Indigenous youth in education and culture, but the evidence on longer-lasting impacts is lacking.
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Environment + Energy
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Neil R Jordan, UNSW; Rob Appleby, Griffith University
A small surcharge on dog food could massively improve conservation for Australia's native dingos and wild dogs.
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Business + Economy
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Neal Hughes, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES)
High water prices in the Murray-Darling Basin are blamed on foreign investors and corporate speculators. The simple truth is they are caused mostly by lack of rain.
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Health + Medicine
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Monica Barratt, RMIT University; Adam Winstock, UCL; Caitlin Hughes, Flinders University; Jason Ferris, The University of Queensland
Most drug use among Australian festival goers appears to be occasional and isn't problematic. But a small group experience higher rates of drug-related harms.
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