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What constitutes ethical research on sexual assault? It’s a question that has been debated this week following controversy regarding a national research project on sexual assault and harassment in Australian universities.
Criminology lecturer Bianca Fileborn offers her tips on how we can best ensure that all research with sexual assault victim-survivors engages in appropriate practices to protect and maintain participants’ rights and wellbeing, as well as the integrity of the research.
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Claire Shaw
Education Editor
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Education
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Ethics procedures aim to protect research participants from harm.
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Bianca Fileborn, UNSW
A recent survey about sexual assault on university campuses was criticised as being unethical. So what is the right way to go about conducting such research?
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Do school uniforms repress culture and identity?
Daniel Munoz/AAP
Amanda Mergler, Queensland University of Technology
By providing a blanket approach to uniform policies, schools risk repressing cultural identity and diversity.
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Science + Technology
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Bottlenose dolphin tossing an octopus across the water during feeding off Bunbury, Western Australia.
Kate Sprogis
Kate Sprogis, Murdoch University; David Hocking, Monash University
It's not easy to tackle a live octopus - so many arms, all those suckers! But some bottlenose dolphins have found a way to defuse and eat these eight-armed sea creatures.
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Which emoji captures how you’re feeling today?
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Jennifer Fane, Flinders University
Emoji provide a living language that is representative and inclusive in ways that words can't always be. Just be careful if you use the eggplant or peach emoji.
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Politics + Society
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The royal commission has heard evidence from more than 60 witnesses, including those in youth detention in the Northern Territory.
AAP/Lucy Hughes Jones
Thalia Anthony, University of Technology Sydney
The NT youth justice royal commission’s interim report did not deliver any findings or make any recommendations. Nor did it reflect young people’s personal stories.
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Illicit drugs are priced differently depending upon which stage of the supply chain they are located.
AAP/Alex Murray
James Martin, Macquarie University; Stephen Bright, Edith Cowan University
Let's take claims about the value of drug seizures with a grain of salt.
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Energy + Environment
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Bowen’s market gardens supply some 13% of Australia’s perishable vegetables.
Ian Sinclair, University of Sydney; Brent Jacobs, University of Technology Sydney; Laura Wynne, University of Technology Sydney; Rachel Carey, University of Melbourne
Sydney, Melbourne and many other areas can expect to pay more for veg from next month, after widespread crop losses in Bowen, a major source of winter vegetables such as tomatoes, beans and capsicum.
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Hundreds of thousands of crown-of-thorns starfish have invaded North Queensland, devastating reefs.
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Bernard Degnan, The University of Queensland
New research has uncovered a whole new way to combat the devastating crown-of-thorns starfish, by decoding the pheromones that they use to communicate.
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Arts + Culture
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Yggdrasil, the tree that supports the world in Norse myth, can be found in America in Neil Gaiman’s mash-up of world religion.
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Elizabeth Hale, University of New England
American Gods imagines a US where ancient gods exist at "right angles to reality", asking why we have mythologies and why we need them.
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Yidaki, maker unknown. Collected from Milingimbi by Charles Mountford.
courtesy of South Australian Museum.
Christine Judith Nicholls, Flinders University
The yidaki, a musical instrument owned by the Yolngu people of North East Arnhem Land, is created by both termites and instrument makers, who tap trees to find hollow logs. A new exhibition tells its fascinating story.
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Health + Medicine
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Careful where you step … how best to treat bluebottle jellyfish stings at the beach?
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Geoff Isbister, University of Newcastle
If you're confused about how best to treat a jellyfish sting, you're not alone. Even the experts disagree. So, here's the best advice we have.
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Just five more minutes … can a coffee before a nap really help you pay back your sleep debt?
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Chin Moi Chow, University of Sydney
Can drinking a cup of coffee before taking a short nap really give you the energy you need to see you through the day?
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Business + Economy
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Insurers could play a key role in adapting to climate change.
Dan Peled/AAP
Tayanah O'Donnell, University of Canberra
As natural disasters become more intense, it's time for insurance companies to help communities adapt to climate change.
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APRA chairman Wayne Byres is leading a crackdown on interest-only loans, but it may not be enough to cool some parts of the housing market.
Mick Tsikas/AAP
Richard Holden, UNSW
Negative gearing plus inadequate supply plus low wage growth equals financial distress.
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Cities
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The Snowy Mountain Scheme is an iconic example of postwar nation-building infrastructure. By the decade after its completion, the sell-offs were in full swing.
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Phillip O'Neill, Western Sydney University
Long-term privatisation contracts, most of them closed to scrutiny, lock urban infrastructure into 20th-century formats unsuited for a climate-threatened planet.
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Aspiring ‘smart cities’ like Barcelona have worked to build their profile – it recently hosted the Smart City Expo World Congress – but Australia may benefit from not having rushed in.
Ramon Costa/AAP
Sarah Barns, Western Sydney University; Donald McNeill, Western Sydney University; Ellie Cosgrave, UCL; Michele Acuto, UCL
Australia has lagged behind some other countries in its investment in smart cities, but in retrospect that may not have been such a bad thing.
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