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Blood on the stage: Let the Right One In is a vampire love story for our times

  • Written by: Vivienne Glance, Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, University of Western Australia
imageSophia Forrest as Eli in Let the Right One InPhoto credit Daniel J Grant

The popularity of vampires has endured since Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Bride of Corinth (1797) and Bram Stoker’s better-known Dracula (1897), based on a Transylvanian folk myth. Stoker’s novel set many of the literary conventions for the genre: drinking...

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The six-month amendment could defeat the purpose of Victoria's assisted dying bill

  • Written by: Colleen Cartwright, Professor & Director, ASLaRC Aged Services, Southern Cross University

Victoria’s historic bill to legalise assisted dying passed the upper house after a marathon 28-hour sitting on November 22, 2017. The 40 MPs voted with their conscience, and the final count was 22 to 18.

The bill returns to the lower house for final ratification of amendments. The original bill specified that the person requesting...

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Why we need to end impunity for sexual violence in armed conflict

  • Written by: Susan Hutchinson, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
imageSexual violence survivors need more than recognition of what they have suffered. Viktor Petrovich/shutterstock

We now have a unique moment to ensure perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict do not go unpunished. In a recent keynote address to the UN Peacekeeping Defence Minister’s summit in Vancouver, actor and global campaigner...

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Ratko Mladic, the 'Butcher of Bosnia', to spend life in prison for genocide and war crimes

  • Written by: Melanie O'Brien, Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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The former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, Ratko Mladić, has been found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and sentenced to life in prison.

Mladić was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in the former...

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  1. The off-topic Conversation #142
  2. Voters see through Turnbull, but cool on Shorten: Queensland research
  3. City-wide trial shows how road use charges can reduce traffic jams
  4. Our obsession with infant growth charts may be fuelling childhood obesity
  5. New research suggests common herbicides are linked to antibiotic resistance
  6. If Beazley had become prime minister instead of Rudd, might we have had more stable government?
  7. Standardised tests limit students with disability
  8. Guide to the Classics: Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars explores vice and virtue in ancient Rome
  9. Public investment in electricity generation – a hot-button issue in Queensland?
  10. Citizenship crisis claims Nick Xenophon Team's Kakoschke-Moore
  11. Why good design alone won't attract millennials to your company
  12. Protecting religious freedoms is a matter of balance, says head of Turnbull's inquiry
  13. FactCheck: does the Safe Schools program contain 'highly explicit material'?
  14. Which square is bigger? Honeybees see visual illusions like humans do
  15. Infographic: here's exactly what Adani's Carmichael mine means for Queensland
  16. Curious Kids: Why are fern leaves shaped the way they are, and are all ferns identical?
  17. Why scientific monitoring of the effects of industry on our priceless WA rock art is inadequate
  18. Young Australians will wear the costs of Turnbull's middle income tax cut
  19. Foreign ownership of housing – how do Australia and New Zealand compare?
  20. We're drafting a legal guide to war in space. Hopefully we'll never need to use it
  21. Standardised tests are culturally biased against rural students
  22. Will microdermabrasion or skin needling give me better skin?
  23. Do we need a new offence to protect victims of family violence from psychological harm?
  24. Turnbull wants to take middle income earners' income tax both up and down
  25. Research Check: will a coffee a day really keep heart attacks at bay?
  26. What's Australia made of? Geologically, it depends on the state you're in
  27. The concept of 'western civilisation' is past its use-by date in university humanities departments
  28. New Zealand experience shows same-sex marriage could provide huge economic boost for Australia
  29. 'Finkel's new energy report' isn't new and it isn't by Finkel
  30. Facts sink glib housing supply mantra – the focus must be on affordable rental
  31. English test for international students isn't new, just more standardised
  32. There's some evidence lithium protects from dementia, but not enough to put it in drinking water
  33. What is the impact of 'impact investing'?
  34. Income tax relief on Turnbull's agenda
  35. When you're on the defensive, stepping backwards can send a bad signal
  36. Coming soon to a highway near you: truck platooning
  37. The future of plastics: reusing the bad and encouraging the good
  38. Del Kathryn Barton explores powerful female sexuality but reproduces the male gaze
  39. Explainer: how is the price of medicine decided in Australia?
  40. Jelena Dokic's story of abuse shows links between elite sport and child labour
  41. Universities need to rethink policy on student-staff relationships
  42. Why New Zealand can't outsource employment policy to its central bank
  43. Contradictory polls in Queensland, while the Greens storm Northcote in Victoria
  44. Most young Australians can’t identify fake news online
  45. Delhi suffers second smog crisis in 12 months, as wake-up calls go unheeded
  46. Four reasons the Australian government should consider litigation against tobacco companies
  47. When the US locked up white Australian immigrants like Australia does to asylum seekers
  48. Three charts on: how emotional and economic abuse go hand-in-hand
  49. Can a tech company build a city? Ask Google
  50. Five reasons India, China and other nations plan to travel to the Moon

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