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Many in the Indian-Australian community are venting their anger with the Morrison government after it took what many see as a draconian step: threatening Australians who try to return from India with fines and imprisonment.
Said one Indian-Australian immunologist on Twitter: “We already have an awful reputation overseas for the way we treat refugees. Now the world sees how we treat our own citizens.”
As Sukhmani Khorana, who studies the Indian diaspora at Western Sydney University, sees it, such an action is hardly surprising.
Although the Indian community is growing in Australia — overtaking China to become the second-ranked overseas-born population in 2020 — Khorana says those of Indian origin are still largely perceived as “other”.
This means that although they are more likely to speak up against perceived discrimination in their adopted country, it doesn’t mean those in power are listening.
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Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Ramana Akula (second from right), who has lived in Australia for 30 years and has citizenship, is currently among the thousands stranded in India.
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Sukhmani Khorana, Western Sydney University
Indians are now the second-largest group of overseas-born migrants in Australia. Yet, despite their increasing numbers and growing political voice, their concerns are still not being heard.
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Angelika Poulsen, Queensland University of Technology
There is now a strong body of evidence showing a link between corporal punishment as a child and later involvement in family violence, either as a victim or perpetrator.
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Daniel J Cass, University of Sydney; Joel Gilmore, Griffith University; Tim Nelson, Griffith University
A proposal to change the way electricity generators and retailers strike contracts for electricity would be bad for both consumers and climate action.
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Tim Moss, Monash University
Warnings of an end to human sperm production have been making headlines recently, now with the added threat of shrinking penises. Is this science or sensationalism?
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Brené Brown’s TED talk on vulnerability has been viewed over 38 million times.
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Nick Haslam, The University of Melbourne
Popular psychology is all over book shops, podcasts and Netflix specials. The value of these ideas is hotly debated but even unguided, self-administered bibliotherapy may bring mental health benefits.
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Jenny Gore, University of Newcastle
Improving initial teacher education is a long-term strategy. It won't achieve the education minister's goal of getting Australia to the top-performing nations in maths and literacy by 2030.
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Julien Louys, Griffith University; Sue O'Connor, Australian National University
The famous deaths of moas and dodos has fed a narrative in which humans are agents of extinction for island-dwelling animals. But research suggests this only recently became the case.
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Environment + Energy
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Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University
Human farts and sneezes can be big — so imagine the size if they came from the world's biggest animals?
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Cities
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Kim Dovey, The University of Melbourne; Merrick Morley, The University of Melbourne; Quentin Stevens, RMIT University
Roadsides have long been reserved for parking cars, but the pandemic led to many experiments with other ways of using scarce and valuable public space. We can put it to better and more flexible uses.
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Science + Technology
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Callum Shakespeare, Australian National University
Internal waves can create pretty cloud shapes in the sky, as well as making life unpleasant for passengers on aeroplanes. And in the oceans they can be a deadly hazard to submarines.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The official medical advice to the Morrison government recommending “pausing” Australian arrivals from India also contained a blunt warning those stranded risk serious illness and even death.
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Carrie Leonetti, University of Auckland
If storing DNA for criminal investigations helps identity the perpetrators and eliminate the innocent, why don't we include samples from everyone?
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Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute; Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute; Owain Emslie, Grattan Institute
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