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It’s Not a Submarine (and Why It’s Driven With a Video Game Controller)
Right now, five people are possibly trapped in a private submersible somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. They have less than 20 hours of air left as of this writing — assuming they’re still alive. The U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, and Canada’s military are in the midst of a large-scale effort to locate and retrieve the…
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Why Is Australian Free-To-Air TV News Still Lacking in Diversity?
Research from the Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories? 2.0 report released today shows newsrooms across Australia are responsible for reinforcing and reproducing racial inequalities because they fail to represent the voices and faces of the society they serve. Australia’s population is more diverse than ever. The latest ABS Census data shows just 54% of…
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The Biggest Lessons to Be Taken From the ‘Outrageous’ Robodebt Scheme
The Robodebt royal commission is currently hearing evidence of tremendous hardship inflicted on people by a government that appeared to have little concern for the people its actions affected. The bureaucratic process was malign, and it harmed and stigmatised welfare recipients. Despite questions about the scheme’s legality, the program recovered about $750 million from around…
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Australia’s COVID-19 Rules Have Changed (Yes, Again), Here’s What You Need to Know
UPDATE: On September 30, it was announced that rules regarding mandatory isolation for positive COVID-19 cases would be scrapped across Australia as of October 14. The ABC has reported that National Cabinet announced it would be dropping the recently-reduced isolation period of 5 days, as we covered below, and stated that individual states and territories…