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Concerns raised about the ethics of anti-wind farm research

May 20, 2013 - 10:08 -- Admin
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Climate change
health and medical research
health ethics
NHMRC
public health
Ethics
Waubra Foundation
windfarms

Crikey journalist Amber Jamieson recently reported that the National Health and Medical Research Council is examining whether anti-wind farm campaigner Sarah Laurie has breached ethical codes of research conduct. The NHMRC and the Australian Health...

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Patsys, players and the future of Australia’s political media

March 30, 2013 - 13:01 -- Admin
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Ethics
media
politics
federal election
Journalists
Julia Gillard
kevin rudd
Laurie Oakes
Mainstream media
media
objectivity
Peter Hartcher

Here’s my latest post for the AusVotes 2013 federal election blog… The most significant thing that emerged from the mea culpas and post mortems that littered the coup-that-wasn’t battlefield was the notion that journalists are willing to be made patsys.