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    Cancer help

    Our researchers are involved in promising new research that could greatly help melanoma patients with brain tumours.

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    Victims of torture

    'Enhanced interrogation' achieves little and harms everyone involved, argue a human rights expert and a former CIA agent.

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    The war on drugs

    Should the government decriminalise drugs? We team up with The Sydney Morning Herald to present this special live panel.

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    It's in the genes

    A study finds some populations of Australia's iconic platypuses are in danger of being wiped out by disease due to their genes.

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    Regional partners

    We have entered into a new partnership with Indonesia's Jakarta State University to boost our programs of Southeast Asian studies.

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Stories of O

This afternoon Fiona Giles will chat with Susan Johnson and Bride Stripped Bare author Nikki Gemmell about female sexuality through the human life cycle. Join them at the Sydney Writers Festival event.

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Peter Minter

Turning tide

On Thursday at the Sydney Writers Festival Dr Peter Minter chaired a panel with Indigenous writers Lionel Fogarty, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Larissa Berendt on the state of Indigenous literature today.