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Nobody uses the internet because the government says they should
THE average house in a remote Indigenous community uses about a third of the power consumed by a suburban home, is six times more prone to overcrowding, and probably doesn’t have a home internet connection. Among the rare exceptions – at least when it comes to the internet – are twenty houses in the small...
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Managing the optics of the Intervention
Anticipating media coverage is now a key element in the development of Indigenous policy, report Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller on Inside Story.
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We're all going to die, but is it statistically significant?
In Inside Story, Scott Ewing goes to the source of a baffling statistic.
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The fine line between the media business and piracy
Just when it looks like things can’t get any worse for News Corporation, another scandal is engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s $50 billion media empire. This time the Murdoch pay TV businesses are under scrutiny. Allegations aired last week on the BBC and published in the Australian Financial Review suggest that News Corp’s former subsidiary NDS, which...
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Victoria's constitutional time bomb
A major constitutional crisis was narrowly avoided in Victoria, but its cause hasn't gone away, write Alistair Harkness and Brian Costar.