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No, 10-year-olds aren’t being fined for going maskless in Victoria

 AAP FactCheck WHAT WAS CLAIMED Children as young as 10 have been fined for not wearing face masks in Victoria.  OUR VERDICT False. Official data shows Victoria Police...
Politics + Society
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Catholic church service | PHOTO: George Gregorio

Will COVID vaccinations be mandatory for places of worship? It could...

By Renae Barker, The University of Western Australia Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, places of worship in Australia have faced significant restrictions. These have included limits...
Politics + Society
6
minutes
vaccination passport

Vaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical?

By Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford The main way to control the pandemic, as we have all painfully found out, has been to restrict the...
Politics + Society
8
minutes
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Australia to build nuclear submarines in a new partnership with the...

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Australia will build a fleet of nuclear submarines as part of a new security partnership with the United States...
Politics + Society
4
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Australia once rejected ‘feeble-minded’ immigrants. While the language has changed, discrimination...

By Jan Gothard, Murdoch University “Idiots”, “imbeciles”, the “feeble-minded”, anyone with a “loathsome disease”: all were refused entry into Australia under early migration acts. Today,...
Migration
5
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Yes, lockdowns are costly. But the alternatives are worse

By Patrick Abraham, The University of Melbourne; Laxman Bablani, The University of Melbourne; Natalie Carvalho, The University of Melbourne, and Tony Blakely, The University...
COVID-19
5
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