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The off-topic Conversation #139

  • Written by Molly Glassey, Audience Development Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Memo to the IPA: history teaching is driven by student demand, not 'identity politics'

  • Written by Trevor Burnard, Head of School and Professor of History, University of Melbourne
imageThe academy has changed substantially since Plato's time. Wikimedia

The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) has released a survey of history subjects at Australian universities, arguing that “identity politics” (subjects related to race, gender, class and the environment) have increased at the expense of subjects related to “Western...

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Designing suburbs to cut car use closes gaps in health and wealth

  • Written by Jerome N Rachele, Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology, Institute for Health and Ageing, Australian Catholic University

This article is one in a series, Healthy Liveable Cities, in the lead-up to the Designing Healthy Liveable Cities Conference in Melbourne on October 19 and 20.

Large health inequalities exist in Australia. Car ownership and its costs add to the health inequalities between low-income and high-income households. The physical characteristics of...

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Is Victoria's sentencing regime really more lenient?

  • Written by Lorana Bartels, Associate Professor and Head, School of Law and Justice, University of Canberra
imageFor all offences in the higher courts, the proportion of Victorians sent to prison is actually higher than the national average.AAP/Paul Miller

A recent High Court decision surrounding the adequacy of a sentence handed down in an incest case has sparked debate over whether Victoria’s sentencing regime is too lenient.

The state’s Victims...

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  1. Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100
  2. Mount Agung continues to rumble with warnings the volcano could still erupt
  3. Why our brain needs sleep, and what happens if we don’t get enough of it
  4. How gig economy workers will be left short of super
  5. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on being an Incorrigible Optimist
  6. Banded stilts fly hundreds of kilometres to lay eggs that are over 50% of their body mass
  7. X, Y and the genetics of sex: Professor Jenny Graves awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2017
  8. Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?
  9. Why the new banking laws won’t be the slam dunk the government is expecting
  10. Banking's new BEAR is a teddy bear not a grizzly
  11. Bob Brown wins his case, but High Court leaves the door open to laws targeting protesters
  12. The government's energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal's role
  13. Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform
  14. Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react
  15. Ethics by numbers: how to build machine learning that cares
  16. Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?
  17. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  18. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  19. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  20. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  21. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  22. Why craft beer is going corporate
  23. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  24. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  25. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  26. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  27. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  28. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  29. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  30. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  31. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  32. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  33. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  34. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  35. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  36. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  37. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  38. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  39. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  40. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  41. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  42. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  43. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  44. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  45. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  46. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  47. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  48. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  49. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  50. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land

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