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Marx, Freud, Hitler, Mandela, Greer... Shakespeare influenced them all

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageEven if you've never read or seen any of Shakespeare's works, his influence has touched your life.Photo credits, clockwise from top: Kevin Lamarque, public domain, public domain, public domain, public domain, Mike Tsikas, 20th Century Fox, Mike Hutchings

In the 1980s there was a concerted attempt to downgrade, even eliminate Shakespeare from...

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Budget explainer: the problem with measuring productivity

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Productivity seems to be one of the measures the Federal Government is using to justify its policy decisions in the lead up to the budget.

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invoked this little understood term in relation to the bill to resurrect the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

He said:

When the Australian Building and...

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  2. What it is like to be a bee: insects can teach us about the origins of consciousness
  3. Why ‘Uber for women’ is not discriminatory
  4. Turnbull looks like a sprinter but is in a marathon
  5. A precarious geological bargain
  6. It's certain – Australians off to the polls on July 2 for double dissolution
  7. Should we release the deadly carp virus into our rivers and water supplies?
  8. A decent woman? The breastfeeding and visibility debate is nothing new
  9. Australia's carbon emissions and electricity demand are growing: here's why
  10. Australia still hasn't had the debate on why we even need new submarines
  11. Health Check: can people actually multitask?
  12. Boaty McBoatface poll shows how not to do community consultation
  13. Special purpose liquidator for Queensland Nickel will turn up the heat on Clive Palmer
  14. Labor moves into dead heat with Coalition
  15. Data access inquiry casts the net far too wide
  16. World split on how to regulate 'killer robots'
  17. The off-topic Conversation #89
  18. CommInsure proves the need for a banking royal commission
  19. Mind the gap in local and international aid workers' salaries
  20. FactCheck: does ASIC already have the powers of a royal commission and more?
  21. FactCheck Q A: does Australia have some of the highest rates per capita of fetal alcohol syndrome in the world?
  22. Ideas for Australia: Improving democracy for workers is not easy but it must be done
  23. Ideas for Australia: Voters have a good choice of politicians, but need to overcome their mistrust of them
  24. US firms knew about global warming in 1968 – what about Australia?
  25. Reducing stress at work is a walk in the park
  26. Should women athletes earn the same as men? The science says they work as hard
  27. Vaccination objection rates aren't skyrocketing
  28. Too strong to deliver? Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership dilemma
  29. Does more money for schools improve educational outcomes?
  30. All of humanity should share in the space mining boom
  31. Ipsos poll: Turnbull takes hit, Coalition-Labor 50-50
  32. Australia's housing finance in seven charts
  33. Explainer: what are the ABCC and Registered Organisations bills?
  34. Consensus confirmed: over 90% of climate scientists believe we're causing global warming
  35. Controversial history of Road Safety Tribunal shows minimum pay was doomed from the start
  36. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Clive Palmer
  37. Travelling with Timor Leste
  38. How can Indonesia free the mentally ill from shackles once and for all?
  39. Comments fail on indigenous deaths in custody
  40. Australia's waterbirds are disappearing – but nuclear physics can help save them
  41. Crossing the river by feeling the stones: democracy's advance in China
  42. Mutant malaria parasites resistant to antimalarial Atovaquone cannot spread: new research
  43. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull sees even a difficult new Senate as an opportunity for a fresh start
  44. Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custody
  45. Scales of justice still tipped towards police who harm people in their custody
  46. Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance
  47. Ideas for Australia: A six-point plan for getting climate policy back on track
  48. Ideas for Australia: Let's retire the idea that Australia 'depends' on digging up coal and other resources
  49. Friday essay: Dogs in Space, 30 years on – a once maligned film comes of age
  50. Thinking about getting the 2016 flu vaccine? Here's what you need to know

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