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    Policy Forum Pod: After Robodebt: reimagining social policy
    (2023-07-21) Bessell, Sharon; Hunter, Arnagretta; Whiteford, Peter
    Professor Peter Whiteford joins us to talk about the highly anticipated Robodebt Scheme Royal Commission report.
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    Policy Forum Pod: Hierarchies of evidence: reimagining social policy
    (Policy Forum - Crawford School of Public Policy, 2023-07-28) Bessell, Sharon; Hunter, Arnagretta; Leigh, Andrew
    In this episode, Dr Andrew Leigh MP sits down in the studio with Sharon and Arnagretta to discuss the hierarchies of evidence in policy making in Australia.
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    STEM the Gap: Science belongs to us mob too
    (2015) Ball, Rowena
    Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states that everyone has the right to freely share in scientific advancement and its benefits, and Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) recognizes the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications. Benefits include access to scientific and technological knowledge and opportunities for all to contribute to the scientific enterprise. Iwould add to these recognition of the scientific heritage of Indigenous peoples. Yet in Australia, Indigenous people are under-represented in science education and research and in STEM (Science Technology Mathematics and Engineering) related careers, to an extent that could amount to a violation of human rights under Articles 27 and 15. In this article I deconstruct some of the myths and attitudes that may contribute to the perpetuation of this situation, and outline a way forward.
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    Towards a spectral forensics: spirits as epistemic resources inresponses to the dead and missing
    (2024-08-20) Robins, Simon; Kent, Lia
    The ‘forensic turn’ in transitional justice has seen technologies ofidentification, notably DNA, become an essential part ofrecommended responses to missing and disappeared persons inthe afermath of violent conflict. There is now a widespreadassumption that these technologies will deliver anincontrovertible ‘forensic truth’ that will instantiate families’ ‘rightto know’ the fate of their loved ones and benefit society as awhole. However, in many contexts a lack of technical andfinancial resources limits the use of such approaches, while inmuch of the majority world, indigenous techniques, notablythose that involve communication with the spirits of the dead,provide an alternative route to understanding the fate andwhereabouts of the missing. In this article we introduce the term‘spectral forensics’ as way to explore approaches to ‘knowing’the missing that engage with the spirit realm. We engage withempirical evidence to explore the scope and reach ofcontemporary spectral forensics. We argue that there is muchthat can be learned from spectral forensics about alternativeunderstandings of truth, justice, and peace, which could avoidover-privileging exhumation and identification models based oninternational forensic expertise.
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    Foreword: History for the Australian Curriculum Year 10
    (Cambridge University Press, 2012) Woollacott, Angela
    Foreword to high-school textbook covering Australian and world history in the 20th century

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