Some Department of Australia to kick off your Monday morning:
Photo: Some Department of Australia to kick off your Monday morning:
"On the subject of the ABC, the government lives in an alternate universe from the rest of the Australian public. They simply have no idea how popular it is.”

Why the government has no chance of changing voters minds on cuts to the ABC:
"Thank you. For dying of Ebola. In America.
You have done what 3000 deaths in West Africa couldn’t do.
You have scared the ‘advanced’ world into lifting its head, and finally looking at the enormous tragedy unfolding."

Rob Oakeshott's letter to Thomas Duncan, the first person to die from Ebola in the United States:
Contrary to the Abbott government’s claims, flagged changes to the foreign worker 457 visa program won’t be good for the Australian economy. Here are the stats and figures to prove it:
The Victorian bureaucracy lacks accountability, fails to communicate and consistently ignores recommendations to improve. And it gets away with it because nobody is listening, writes Jason Whittaker:
Sub-editors -- ie, the people who check copy for typos, legal issues and other errors -- are going to be "phased out" of Fairfax's regional newspapers as it cuts more than 30% of jobs at mastheads such as the Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Can the papers survive when a single journo is asked to do the job of a sub, photographer and researcher combined? Log in, or sign up for a free trial to read:
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"What if he decides that another fact is that children simply can’t be protected from child abuse on Nauru? Will Moss have the integrity to tell the government, even if it appears to be beyond his “terms of reference”? The government is not... expecting these types of facts, yet a truthful investigation can hardly ignore them."

Karen Healy on the uncomfortable truths of the investigation into child abuse in the immigration detention centre on Nauru:
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Folk devils and the outrage cycle: Glen Fuller explains moral panics, using The Australian's attack on "activist journalists" as an example:
"In the post-political broadcast of “Mental As” it is dangerously taken as read that these treatment services are easy to secure. Well, they’re not. The ABC, the nation’s biggest employer of journalists, has a responsibility to report not o...nly what “you” can do to “fight the stigma” but what government isn’t doing to treat the symptoms and causes of mental health. And what it isn’t doing is a lot."

Mental Health Week might be over, but the battle for appropriate, affordable and accessible mental health care certainly isn't.
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Getting rid of penalty rates will hurt workers and won't make your weekend cafe brunches any cheaper, say legal experts:
"Cleverly disguised, Markson went undercover to get the inside word on what was being taught to students in media degrees at the University of Sydney and at UTS. She sat in on some lectures, she read some course materials. In the spirit of ...deep, hard-hitting reporting, the piece ran with a selfie of Markson dressed as a university student. It was classic Woodward and Bernstein stuff."

Max Chalmers on why The Australian's "exclusive" on the apparently left-wing content of university media studies courses sells students short:
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