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One person's metaverse is another's dystopian reality

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta: an attempt at rebranding Facebook's sullied image, a cool new virtual ...  
Sex and disability: The right to intimate connection

In this personal account, a mother explores the health and quality-of-life benefits of sex work in ...  
Incarceration: How Australia fails its vulnerable

Political will is needed to end the abomination that is Australia's punitive carceral estate — a ...  
IA Book Club: 'Memoirs Of A Rebel — Black Market Shooting'

Lindy Kittel explores a new book by Kon Georgiou, which reveals his life as a bikie and how he ...  
IA Book Club: 'Why You Should Give A F*ck About Farming'

Revelly Robinson explores a book that looks at how we take food security for granted and why we ...  
Facebook rebrand: Why Meta is not better

Critics of Facebook believe its recent name change is merely a smokescreen, meant to distract us ...  
Avi Yemini and his ilk are anything but journalists

Right-wing propagandists calling themselves citizen journalists are nothing more than frauds and ...  
Australia needs a federal human rights act

A human rights act would repair much of the damage caused by the Government's lack of compassion ...  
Tudge flags freedom of speech while whitewashing Australia's past

Education Minister Alan Tudge continues to argue that an obscure version of our history – one ...  
Iconic Afghanistan: Life before war

Photography campaign Prints for Afghanistan preserves a memory of the country, pre-Taliban, ...  
Citizen journalism on the rise in Australian fringe politics

The anti-lockdown movement has given a platform to “citizen journalists” seeking fame and ...  
Using smart cities to protect democracy

The connectivity of smart cities can be used as a tool against neoliberalism, bringing people ...  
To improve mental health systems we must connect with their users

If we want to understand how to bridge gaps in Australia's mental health systems, our national ...  
Grassroots campaign against Christian Porter grows

Since the Government refuses to investigate many of the allegations against Christian Porter ...  
Football season a big win despite pandemic fears

Dodging the world disease in Australia almost proved too much for sports industries trying to keep ...  
Pro-vax, pro-union, anti-fascist: Three things to be proud of

Dr Martin Hirst explains why he's been tweeting the hashtags #ProVax, #ProUnion, and #AntiFascist ...  
What living with COVID would really mean for Australia

Through careful management and planning, it would be possible for the Australian Government to ...  
Hitting the snooze button on Big Australia in the wake of COVID-19

Post pandemic, it will take more than just vaccines to put us on the road to a new and ecologic ...  

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