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Editor's note
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On November 15, it will be one year since the result of the marriage equality postal vote – an emphatic “yes” – was announced to widespread jubilation. Since then, writes Timothy W. Jones, there have been about 100 same-sex weddings a week. But it has been a mixed time for the LGBT community – many are still dealing with the trauma the marriage-equality vote provoked, and there are constant reminders that much work remains to be done.
One of those, for example, was that leaked recommendations of the Ruddock religious freedom review shone a light on the extent to which some institutions are allowed to discriminate against LGBT people. Jones argues it’s now time to renegotiate the balance of rights between the protection of LGBT people from discrimination and the permission we give people of faith to discriminate on the basis of sex.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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The results of the SSM vote brought great jubilation on November 15, 2017- but the fight is not yet over.
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Timothy W. Jones, La Trobe University
The marriage equality debate brought the rights of LGBT Australians to the fore - now we need to turn our attention to the ways they are still discriminated against.
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Education
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Simmone Pogorzelski, Edith Cowan University; Robyn Wheldall, Macquarie University
Children in the early stages of learning to read should be given decodable books to practise and generalise their developing alphabetic skills.
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Health + Medicine
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Yasmine Probst, University of Wollongong; Vivienne Guan, University of Wollongong
Many foods that seem healthy contain various hidden fats, sugars and salts. If you're trying to lose weight, it pays to know where they're hiding.
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Environment + Energy
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Sarah Boulter, Griffith University
The reality is that without human intervention, ecosystems will reshape themselves in response to climate change. The Queensland government has launched a climate plan for the state's ecosystems.
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Science + Technology
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Fleur Johns, UNSW; Caroline Compton, UNSW; Wayne Wobcke, UNSW
Digital technologies put an abundance of data at our fingertips, but we must ensure questions of what should, and should not, be measured are answered before we use them in official statistics.
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Tiffany Gill, University of Adelaide
Cohorts, or groups of people, are followed over time in longitudinal studies – imagine the study subjects marching forward together through the years, like a group of soldiers.
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Cities
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Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology
Blind belief that new technology and disruptive innovation will fix congestion in our cities overlooks the need for strong leadership that supports progressive policy innovation.
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Business + Economy
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Ben Spies-Butcher, Macquarie University
The income within super funds is poorly taxed. Taxing it better could properly fund aged care.
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Politics + Society
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Michael Hogan, University of Sydney
Luke Foley was little known among the voting public but seen as doing a competent job against an unpopular government before being forced out as leader over sexual misconduct claims.
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Grant Duncan, Massey University
People’s trust in politicians and governments is in decline, but it will take cross-party collaboration to deal with issues such as poverty and climate change.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan speaks to Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
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Marilyn McMahon, Deakin University; Paul McGorrery, Deakin University
A 69-year-old man is in jail for encouraging his wife to suicide but some have wondered why he wasn't charged with a more serious offence.
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Sharon McLennan, Massey University
Honduran migrants trudging north towards the US-Mexico border are fleeing violence and poverty that has its roots in activities of 10th-century American fruit companies.
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Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Marise Payne this week became the first Australian foreign minister to visit China in three years – another indication that the frost in the relationship is thawing.
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Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University
If Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen had not been Muslim, it is highly unlikely he would have been imprisoned in a Supermax facility for four weeks on flimsy evidence.
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Marc Stears, University of Sydney
Governments' lack of response to rising inequality is not a problem of knowledge or public support. The problem is that those whose needs are being ignored must find a way to make themselves heard.
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