Shooting to kill: time to rethink the Taser?

The recent death of a Brazilian student stunned by a Taser has failed to change perspectives on Tasers as non-lethal alternatives to guns, writes Eleanor Gordon-Smith

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Roberto Laudisio Curti died shortly before sunrise after he had been sprayed with capsicum spray and tasered. He was 21 years old, having come to Australia from Brazil to study English, and he was suspected of stealing a packet of biscuits.

An Education Revolution?

Amid the battle to absolve the national crisis of educational inequality, Teach for Australia picks our best and brightest graduates and sends them to the most disadvantaged schools. There’s just one thing- they’re not teachers. Edwin Montoya Zorilla looks at a progam that divides as much as it conquers.

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Riding The Tech Wave

Innovative.
Entrepreneurial.
And all aiming to strike it big.
James Alexander shines the spotlight on the surging number of Sydney University students founding tech startups.

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Fukushima Fallout: Japan, One Year On

Madeleine King toured the Fukushima prefecture as the nation attempts to
rebuild and deal with its new energy crisis

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An Unequal Democracy

Money talks loudest in the land of the free, writes Felix Donovan

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