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Investigation

Business

Share house blues: tenants hit hard on lease transfers amid housing crisis

Story by James Worsfold

Society
Photo: Kristian Oka Prasetyadi

Noticed whose Myki gets checked? International students do, and they’re not convinced it’s always random

Investigation by Filment Ho

Society
Photo: Shutterstock

Home alone: An international student’s tale of rentsploitation

Story by Charlotte Walkling

Society
Photo: Shutterstock

Exposed: Overseas students most at risk in housing market underbelly

Story by Charlotte Walkling

Society
Photo: Gwen Liu

Rental crisis: Desperate students turn to Chinese brokers and pay price

Investigation by Gwen Liu

Projects
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

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

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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: Ashleigh
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  • The Global Citizen editor: Tim Stoney
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