MECO6925 Online Journalism

PITCH: Is Disney deliberately creating racist controversy? Tapping into genuine racial equality on screen

2023-04-24 Mengyan Liu 2

Story Topic and Angle With the controversial Disney film The Little Mermaid (2023) just two months away from its release in Australia, I would like to convey my opinion on the social controversy over racism […]

Are Women Happy with the Latest Gender Pay Gap?

2023-04-24 Youxian Wang 1

Story topic and angle Recently, in a reputed online newspaper, I came across an article on Australia’s narrowest recorded gender pay gap. I found the news interesting, as the gender pay gap is one of […]

Is the “Yes” campaign doing enough to engage young Australian voters?

2023-04-24 Claudia Talon 1

Dear Alice [Junkee editor-in-chief] This month it was revealed that millions of Aussies are still unsure about voting on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In the Resolve Political Monitor poll, 10 per cent of voters […]

As a country with high social welfare and high happiness index ranked among the top in the world, why can we still see homeless people in the urban centers of Australia?

2023-04-24 Lehan Wang 1

Introduction: Australia is one of the top countries in the world with high social welfare and high happiness index. We can still see homeless people inthe central CBD of Sydney or Melbourne. Some of them […]

The use of AI in academic writing may be considered as academic dishonesty, which raising concerns among some students

2023-04-24 Lixin Chang 1

Background: Since the beginning of this semester, an AI chatbot program has been widely mentioned in campus and daily life, which is ChatGPT released by OpenAI in late 2022. It was a big deal in […]

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Government should regulate sports and race betting advertising, say most adult Australians.

2023-04-24 Anning Gu 1

Gambling is a significant public policy issue in Australia, which impacts the health and well-being of individuals and families in various ways. According to estimates, legal forms of gambling resulted in a loss of around […]

Higher education enrolments, overseas students, 2010–2020

The Australian government wants graduating overseas students to stay and work here, right?

2023-04-24 Liu Wen Bo 2

Background This will be an introduction to the national shortage of staff for various jobs in Australia and the consequent long-term need for highly skilled recent graduates to migrate to Australia. Since COVID-19, international […]

Data privacy a rising concern amid TikTok government ban

2023-04-24 Frederik Verhaeghe 1

Background In recent news, TikTok has been accused by Western nations of harvesting data from its users. Amongst these allegations are concerns of potential data spying by the Chinese government due to the Chinese origins […]

“Internet fraud”: Millions of Australians at risk

2023-04-24 Xuejing She 1

Background research With the rapid development and popularity of the internet, some unscrupulous individuals use the internet to commit fraud which has serious implications for Australian residents. According to the latest figures released by the […]

Please be wary of cyber love, it is likely to be a scam!

2023-04-24 Sicong Wang 1

(From https://www.marconet.com/) Background: China’s National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center has named Pig-butchering Scam one of the “Top 10 New Words in Chinese Media in 2019.” Pig-butchering Scam first appeared in 2017 and was […]