Adele Ferguson, the celebrated journalist who many credit as the driving force behind the banking royal commission, says that the commission ‘didn’t go anywhere near far enough.’
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Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the ‘disappointing’ banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers
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Today on Media Files, it's journalism versus the big banks. We're hearing from Adele Ferguson, the celebrated journalist who many credit as the driving force behind the banking royal commission.
Sri Lankan security personal stand guard outside St Anthony’s Church in Colombo after it was hit by an explosion on Sunday.
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By inciting religious hatred, the recent attacks in Sri Lanka appear to have more in common with Al-Qaeda than past ethno-religious violence, which has sought specific political change.
The wheels of the economy will grind more slowly because of undeclared tax rate hikes in the budget.
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A Labor government would boost the lowest wage that could be paid under a 457-style visa, crack down on the exploitation of foreign workers, and ensure businesses looked to local people first.
What you find depends on what you’re looking for.
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Some people argue the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, you just need to keep looking. But there are occasions where finding no evidence is all you can do.
The Nationals, led by Michael McCormack, are facing significant challenges in several seats.
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Water management, declining standard of living and regional Australians feeling neglected have all been cited as reasons for the Nationals being on the nose electorally.
Guests at the V.I.P Opening Feast, Eat The Problem.
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A new exhibition and book urging us to eat invasive species are beautiful but come across as little more than an exquisitely designed elitist spectacle.
Native ash forest logs in the Rubicon Valley.
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Constipation can occur when there’s a delay in digested food passing through your body and being expelled. It can also happen when your poo is too hard, often because it doesn’t contain enough water.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison sings during an Easter Sunday service at his Horizon Church at Sutherland in Sydney on Sunday.
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There is no writer working today with better grasp of the contemporary Australian vernacular.
The new approach to keep research ready to go could be useful for other health emergencies, including other infectious diseases.
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All too often, researchers around the world act in competition when trying to answer research questions in an emergency situation, such as outbreaks of the flu. The UK is trialling a new approach.
For Shorten, Easter might act as an eraser to rub out people’s memories of a scratchy couple of days in the first week.
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Politically speaking, the Easter break is a blessing for a jaded electorate, at least a partial rest for voters’ in a campaign that’s started as an impossibly complex jumble of claims and numbers.
Just not cricket: Politicians make promises but obfuscate how those promises will be paid for.
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West Australian voters need convincing that the Coalition will be better than Labor at managing the economy. Meanwhile, the Queensland seat of Dickson has already descended into personality politics.
The antibiotics commonly used to treat school sores, a skin infection affecting thousands of Aboriginal kids, are out of stock.
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Almost half of Aboriginal kids living remotely will have a school sore at any one time. But there aren’t enough of the right antibiotics to treat them.
In the Bible, heaven is where God resides, rather than a place of eternal life. But over time it has become conflated with ideas of paradise and eternal salvation.
Hell is a complicated idea- and most Christians do not believe it has anything to do with fire and brimstone.
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“Hell” in the Bible is a highly symbolic idea designed to persuade people to stay faithful to their God, not to set out a precise agenda for the afterlife.
The IKEA effect is caked in myth, but the phenomenon of consumers valuing their own efforts is proven and potent.
Finance minister Grant Robertson (left) and climate minister James Shaw address school children during a climate protest, promising that New Zealand will introduce zero carbon legislation this year.
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