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Editor's note
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ABC's new four-part documentary 'Ice Wars' continues tonight, and while most of what they're reporting isn't necessarily untrue, it's overblown.
As Nicole Lee writes, ice isn't "tearing apart the fabric of our community", and this language only serves to increase fear and stigma. The opposite of what drug-dependent people need to seek help.
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Alexandra Hansen
Section Editor, Health and Medicine
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Ice Wars invokes fear and stigma - both of which are very unhelpful in battling drug dependence.
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Nicole Lee, Curtin University
Without doubt, crystal methamphetamine, like all drugs (including alcohol) is capable of causing immense harm. But when facts are distorted to create fear and stigma it helps no one.
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Business + Economy
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Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney; Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney
To tout new housing production as the only solution to rising house prices, without examining the question of demand, is an ineffective policy position.
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Christopher Sheil, UNSW; Frank Stilwell, University of Sydney
The IMF has been expressing public concern about inequality since 2010, but this has not translated into concrete action within the IMF’s own policies and programs.
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Politics + Society
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Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne
Men, if you want a great relationship this Valentine's Day, turn on the vacuum.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Rudd called for more to be done to halt the increasing number of Indigenous children being removed from their families.
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Louise Crabtree, Western Sydney University
Strategies that exploit what our online data trails reveal about us can be used to fool us into thinking our desires will be met. Brexit and Trump show us how politics at the margins can be played.
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Kathleen McPhillips, University of Newcastle
Last week's hearing into the Catholic Church's response to child sex abuse made for grim listening, and showed there is still much reform work to be done.
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Arts + Culture
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Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Edith Cowan University
Can a gender studies academic also write Mills and Boon novels? And can purple prose be as empowering as a pink pussy hat? The answer is yes, and yes again.
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Duc Dau, University of Western Australia
From censorship, to mainstream, to Donald Trump: erotica has a long and varied history.
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Environment + Energy
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Wendy Miller, Queensland University of Technology
The latest heatwave put huge pressure on our electricity grid, as Australians turned on their air conditioners. Smarter design and regulations could solve the problem.
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Science + Technology
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Rachel Grieve, University of Tasmania
Valentine's Day is branded as being a celebration of romantic love. But there are many styles of love, from passionate Eros to caring Agape and many in between.
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FactCheck
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Stuart Ross, University of Melbourne
Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said he thought that Victorians have never felt more unsafe, and that burglaries, assaults and murders are rising year-on-year. Is he right?
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Health + Medicine
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Colin Mendelsohn, UNSW
The recent decision to effectively ban e-cigarettes will hurt poor and disadvantaged smokers the most.
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Yossi Rathner, Swinburne University of Technology; Joshua Luke Ameliorate, Swinburne University of Technology; Mark Schier, Swinburne University of Technology
Some people swear by cold showers to cope with a long, hot summer. Here's why they'd be better off taking a warm one.
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Education
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Helen Stokes, University of Melbourne; Malcolm Turnbull, University of Melbourne
Fragmentation, inconsistency and a lack of accountability between alternative education providers means not all young people get access to a good education.
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