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Investigation

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Image: Via David Spratt/Breakthrough

Sun, sea and … storm surges: bayside buyers beware

Story by Gideon Cohen Pauline Février Hannah Vandenbogaerde

Culture
Photo: Tony Peck

Gippsland: Canary in the coalmine

Story by Amelia Costigan Hannah Hammoud Ann Khorany

Society
Credit: Courtesy of Joby Aviation (c) Joby Aero, Inc

Air super highways over railway lines: FoI documents reveal Victorian government push for electric aviation

Words by Petra Stock

Society
Image: Shutterstock

In the heat of the moment, flawed emergency apps ignite concern

Story by Brodie McLaughlin Dane Heverin Harry Sekulich Pema Monaghan

Health
Danger sign at the former Building 164 site. Photo: Else Kennedy

Records unearth new questions on Melbourne University nuclear waste

Words and pictures by Else Kennedy

Culture

Not in front of the children? Sex, drugs, flesh and blood

Words by Maria Abbatangelo

Society

Why I didn’t ignore ‘the weirdest teacher I ever knew’ when he got back in touch. 

Words by Jane McNaughton

Charity status axed for housing group linked to former Family First boss

Words by Daryl Holland

Rail industry push to amend disability standards that ‘cannot be met’

Words by Maria Abbatangelo

Commuter alerted Metro to Heyington platform danger three months before teenager’s death

Words and pictures by Maria Abbatangelo

One size does not fit all: history’s legacy of platform gaps putting rail users at risk

Investigation by Maria Abbatangelo

Timor’s famine: words that pointed to catastrophe

Cables point to Australian indifference to plight of starving Timorese thousands

Words by Rose Iser

Black, white and shades of grey: hackers intensify their attacks on Australia’s universities

Words by Henry Belot

About The Citizen

THE CITIZEN is a publication of the Centre for Advancing Journalism. It has several aims. Foremost, it is a teaching tool that showcases the work of the students in the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism and Master of International Journalism programs, giving them real-world experience in working for publication and to deadline. Find out more →

  • Editor: Jo Chandler
  • Reporter: Qiyun (Gwen) Liu
  • Audio & Video editor: Louisa Lim
  • Data editor: Craig Butt
  • Editor-In-Chief: Andrew Dodd
  • Business editor: Lucy Smy
Winner — BEST PUBLICATION 2016 Ossie Awards

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