Social Justice

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Politics & Society

The future of our public housing towers

Instead of demolishing Melbourne’s ageing public housing towers, clever refurbishments could save millions of dollars and provide high-quality public housing

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Health & Medicine

Why social conditions need to guide our COVID-19 policies

A new demographic index of Australian cities identifies vulnerable population areas and can drive better policy making to control COVID-19 outbreaks

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Arts & Culture

Artists, environment and truth telling in Indonesia

Art and environmental activism go together for many Indonesian artists, but some are also pushing for a reckoning as a new way forward for the country

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Politics & Society

Mapping back to a lost childhood

A new interactive online map of Australian care homes is helping those who grew up in care track down the institutions they stayed in, and their records

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Politics & Society

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Podcast

Bringing democracy to the internet

Author and lawyer Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards in order to determine our digital future

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Politics & Society

Helping care leavers find and connect to their past

Find & Connect is a living history project that provides an opportunity for people who lived in care to tell their side of the story

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Politics & Society

Is it time to tax ‘old money’?

Australia abolished death taxes in the late 1970s, but could their reintroduction help address social inequality?

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Politics & Society

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Podcast

Taking the pulse of the NDIS

Half a million Australians will benefit from the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but how are teething problems being managed, and is the pace of rollout sustainable?

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Politics & Society

When kissing was a crime

The history of the LGBTI community’s ongoing struggle for equality is preserved in the archives, providing a crucial window into the attitudes of the past and the poignant stories that drove social change

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Health & Medicine

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Podcast

How attitudes disable

Rethinking our assumptions about people with impairments is a critical step towards more inclusiveness

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