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Editor's note
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The social networking site Tumblr announced on Monday that it will no longer host adult content on its platform. The news prompted swift backlash from the community of fanfiction writers, artists, sex workers, kinksters and independent porn producers who use the site to share and discuss their work.
Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust explains why the sexual subcultures created by these communities are a crucial part of public life – and why it’s a problem that big tech companies have become modern arbiters of taste, with more influence than national classifiers on what kind of content is permissible in the public sphere.
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Shelley Hepworth
Section Editor: Technology
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Top Stories
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Private corporations have now become the arbiters of community standards, making decisions about what content is permissible to circulate.
Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, UNSW
Sexual subcultures create space for critical social conversations and the formation of meaningful political alliances.
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Men also experience postnatal mental health and adjustment issues.
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Richard Fletcher, University of Newcastle; Jacqui Macdonald, Deakin University; Louise Newman, University of Melbourne
Having a stressed and depressed father can have serious implications for infants and relationships. And supporting a father who may be experiencing mental ill health means supporting the mother too.
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John Charles Ryan, University of New England
Beginning on Saturday, West Australia's short, intense abalone season will be open for a total of four hours.
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Arts + Culture
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Sally Breen, Griffith University
Sport is a dominant thread in Australia’s cultural DNA. But it’s also divisive.
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Tanya Dalziell, University of Western Australia; Paul Genoni, Curtin University
Leonard Cohen's letter to his former girlfriend on her death bed became a viral phenomenon. But the words that circulated on social media were a paraphrased version, not his own.
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Politics + Society
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Jessica Richards, Western Sydney University; Keith D. Parry, University of Winchester
The main sporting venues in Australian capitals have had an upgrade in recent times, with the notable exception of Sydney, where leaders seem mired in indecision and political bickering.
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James H. Liu, Massey University
On the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it is worth remembering how it provided America with an unparalleled position of power following the second world war.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
As both sides played the tactics, a remarkable thing happened in the
House of Representatives. Behaviour improved one hundred percent, with
none of the usual screaming and exchanges of insults.
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Andrew Dodd, University of Melbourne; Andrea Carson, La Trobe University; Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University
In conversation with Andrew Dodd, Andrea Carson and Matthew Ricketson, The Guardian's editor-in-chief discusses the big stories of 2018 and what she sees as the major challenges of 2019.
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Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University; Matthew Gray, Australian National University
Random-controlled testing is widely accepted in medicine, and yet voters are not convinced this would be a good approach to testing out government policy before it is implemented.
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Business + Economy
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Richard Holden, UNSW
Floating the dollar 35 years ago was a leap into the unknown. Here's how it has served us well.
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John Garrick, Charles Darwin University
Darwin is now on the front line in managing tensions between Australia’s most important strategic ally and partner and its major trading partner.
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Jana Matthews, University of South Australia
Simply providing more money will not accelerate the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Andrew Linden, RMIT University; Warren Staples, RMIT University
With public hearings finished, insiders are making a last-ditch bid to either soften or sidetrack the final report of the banking royal commission.
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Cities
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Cristina Mateo Rebollo, IE University
Companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Tesla are redefining key aspects of daily life such as work, mobility and leisure, using our cities as laboratories for their innovations.
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Environment + Energy
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John Charles Ryan, University of New England
Beginning on Saturday, West Australia's short, intense abalone season will be open for a total of four hours.
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Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
George H.W. Bush, who has passed away aged 94, was US president when the world began grasping the climate issue in earnest. But he was pivotal in setting the US on a course of blocking climate action.
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Education
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Candice Harris, Auckland University of Technology; Jarrod Haar, Auckland University of Technology
We know summer school holidays can be challenging, stressful and expensive for working parents but we still know very little about how families juggle conflicting demands.
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Kellie Bousfield, Charles Sturt University; Jacquie Tinkler, Charles Sturt University
Far from proof of a flawed education system, politically active school students are evidence our education system is working well.
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Health + Medicine
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Richard Fletcher, University of Newcastle; Jacqui Macdonald, Deakin University; Louise Newman, University of Melbourne
Having a stressed and depressed father can have serious implications for infants and relationships. And supporting a father who may be experiencing mental ill health means supporting the mother too.
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Karleen Gribble, Western Sydney University; Nina J Berry, University of Sydney
New research shows a six-fold increase in sales of infant formula prescribed for babies with cows' milk protein allergy in the UK, despite no evidence of an increase in the incidence of the allergy.
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