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Monday, August 26

How the US right-to-life movement is influencing the abortion debate in Australia

The Australian right-to-life movement is tiny compared to the US, but its recent adoption of American-style campaign strategies has given it an outsize voice in the debate here.

Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity

For all their good intentions, accidents happen when fallible humans intervene in complex systems they don’t understand.

It’s time for a Royal Commission into veteran suicide

A recent study found that male veterans under 30 have a suicide rate more than two times the national average. Yet, support for a royal commission into the problem is lacking.

A digital rendering of one of the new warships part of the SEA 5000 Future Frigate program. Courtesy BAE Systems Australia.

Flinders first university in Australia endorsed for naval shipbuilding

Flinders has partnered with the Naval Shipbuilding College to ensure graduates are ready to seize future cutting-edge jobs in the National Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise.

Milestones for SA heroes of aviation

Two famous stories in South Australian aviation history are taking off this year, assisted by Flinders University academics.

YouTube apologies and reality TV revelations - the rise of the public confession

From Steve Smith’s tearful apology to anonymous apps like Whisper, public confessions can be therapeutic, emancipatory, or potentially exploitative.

Footprints on the Moon and cemeteries on Mars

There is a lot of documentation about what’s been left on the Moon – but it’s amazing how much we don’t know.

African countries and the state of their environments: the best and the worst

Social and economic changes in Africa are being driven by increasing prosperity and heavy foreign investment, according to Flinders University researchers Corey Bradshaw and Enrico Di Minin.

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South Australia closer to decriminalising sex work

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Monday, June 17
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Wednesday, June 12
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Monday, June 03
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Affordable new health hub opens in southern Adelaide

Wednesday, May 29

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Friday, May 17
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Heart study takes on breast cancer’s double jeopardy

Tuesday, May 14
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Addressing needs of ageing Forgotten Australians

Tuesday, May 07
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Chris Lilley’s Lunatics: deadpan cringe, great dialogue but more mawkish than outrageous

Monday, April 29

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Since the end of the first world war, the Australian media has often reported that ‘the French’ care about, remember and even venerate the Anzacs. But is this true? And which French people, asks Romain Fathi.
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