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A year after the coronavirus first emerged in the city of Wuhan, World Health Organisation experts are finally expected to arrive today in China as part of their investigation into the origins of the pandemic.
What they will be permitted to do, though, remains a big question.
As John Garrick and Yan Bennett explain, China has very tightly controlled any attempts to investigate the origins of the virus or the government’s response to it.
Part of this has entailed detaining citizen journalists like Zhang Zhan, who was sentenced in December to four years in prison for her reports on the conditions in Wuhan.
With the origins of COVID-19, China’s citizens — and the world — deserve truth, Garrick and Bennett say. Not politically convenient spin.
And as lawmakers in the US are expected to vote to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, we’ll be following the proceedings and publishing analysis of the outcome later today.
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Justin Bergman
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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A pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong holds a photo of Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist sentenced to four years in China for her reporting on the Wuhan COVID outbreak.
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John Garrick, Charles Darwin University; Yan Bennett, Princeton University
The stakes are high for China as WHO teams arrive to investigate the origins of the coronavirus. Beijing has presented a success story to the world — and will not accept any criticism.
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Kylie Quinn, RMIT University; Holly Seale, UNSW; Margie Danchin, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
The best approach for protecting everyone’s health will require us to provide different vaccines to different people according to need and availability.
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Audrey Courty, Griffith University
The more than 26,000 tweets posted during Trump's presidency are now a matter of public record. They've been archived and could be used against him in the future.
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Workers disinfect parts of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 recovered from the waters off Jakarta, Indonesia, January 10 2021.
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Volodymyr Bilotkach, Singapore Institute of Technology
Air travel in Indonesia is a lot safer than a decade ago.
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Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
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Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, University of South Australia
Australia's island destinations attract millions of visitors a year. We need a better approach to ecotourism to protect their natural assets.
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Helen Young, Deakin University
The medieval symbols at the US Capitol riots says more about modern racism rather than true medieval history. We must be vigilant about this symbolism.
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Science + Technology
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Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Adhi Oktaviana, Griffith University; Basran Burhan, Griffith University; Maxime Aubert, Griffith University
The painting of pigs at least 45,500 years ago on a cave wall in Sulawesi may be the earliest figurative rock art ever found.
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Education
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Peter Hurley, Victoria University
Universities can expect at least a A$3 billion reduction in international student revenue this year compared to 2019.
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Politics + Society
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Michael Blake, University of Washington
An impeachment of President Trump will likely not be finished before he's left office. A political philosopher argues that the impeachment is still an important moral action.
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Karen Stollznow, Griffith University
Michael McCormack used a phrase that reveals prejudice during his stint as acting Prime Minister.
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Sylvia Taschka, Wayne State University
The US faces many of the same problems Germans faced after World War II: how to reject, punish and delegitimize the enemies of democracy. There are lessons in how Germany handled that challenge.
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Catherine Stinton, University of York
Far-right activists are usually characterised as men. But women have always played an important role in these movements.
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Long T. Bui, University of California, Irvine
Onlookers who recognized the flag wondered why the mostly white mob had 'coopted' Vietnamese history. But Vietnamese Americans are Trump supporters, too, some driven by a potent fear of socialism.
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Environment + Energy
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Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles; Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.
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Business + Economy
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Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
New Zealand should recognise the high stakes and join the China-Australia WTO hearing as a third party.
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Michael Plouffe, UCL; Thomas Gift, UCL
From pandemic stimulus to China relations, it will soon become clear that there is a new broom in town.
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Arts + Culture
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Liza-Mare Syron, UNSW
Evonne Goolagong Cawley's biography is an intimate and personal play, tempered with humour and love.
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Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne
Based on Joanna Rakoff's memoir of working for JD Salinger's agent, the film lacks some of the wit but none of the heart of Joanna's story.
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