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Movies and TV choose to tell us different stories about the cities of today

  • Written by: Sebastien Darchen, Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
imageMovies from the "neo-noir" genre offer a darker and bleaker vision of the city, in stark contrast to the world of the TV sit-com.Tan Zi Han/Shutterstock

The way cities are portrayed reveals and shapes public perceptions of the city. For young people, in particular, the media inform and disseminate the most elemental images of the city and the...

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Dems easily win Virginia and New Jersey governors. Left gains control of Tas upper house

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

Gubernatorial elections were held in Virginia and New Jersey today. In Virginia, there is a one-term limit for governors, so incumbent Democrat governor Terry McAuliffe was unable to seek re-election. Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie by a 53.9-45.0 margin, larger than expected by most polls, with only Quinnipiac getting...

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Turnbull and Shorten haggle over detail of citizenship disclosure system

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are inching towards an agreement on the form of a citizenship declaration that each member of parliament would have to make within weeks.

The two met in Melbourne on Wednesday, with the Prime Minister hoping they would finalise the declaration. But Shorten, who was accompanied by Labor Senate leader Penny Wong, had...

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Australia might water down illegal logging laws – here's why it's a bad idea

  • Written by: Beatriz Garcia, Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Illegal logging is an immensely profitable global activity, linked to corruption, human rights abuses, criminal networks, and environmental destruction. A 2017 study by the Global Financial Integrity ranked illegal logging as the third largest global crime in value, after counterfeiting and drug trafficking.

Australia imports roughly A$8.1 billion...

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