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How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize

  • Written by: Tilman Ruff, Associate Professor, International Education and Learning Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
imageTilman Ruff (back centre) and a group of ICAN campaigners protest outside Australia's permanent mission to the UN at Geneva.Tim Wright, ICAN, Author provided

On Friday, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian...

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Caravan delivers a glimpse of women on the edge with sweet comedy

  • Written by: Sandra D'urso, Researcher, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
imageNicci Wilks and Susie Dee in Caravan. Tim Grey Photography

Despite its forays into dark subject matter, Caravan, staged as part of the Melbourne Festival, is a rather sweet comedy. Described as a “darkly comic look at life on the margins”, it is also a curious blend of vaudeville with faint notes of magic-realism. It delivers cheery...

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Weekly Dose: from laughing parties to whipped cream, nitrous oxide's on the rise as a recreational drug

  • Written by: Julaine Allan, Senior Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University
imageNitrous oxide inhaled out of a balloon gives the user euphoric feelings. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Nang is a slang name for the small metal cylinders usually used in whipped cream siphons. They are also called nossies or whippets. The cylinders have about eight grams of nitrous oxide in them that can be inhaled for a euphoric effect.

The 2016...

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Tony Abbott, once the 'climate weathervane', has long since rusted stuck

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Tonight former Prime Minister Tony Abbott will be in London to give a speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, titled “Daring to Doubt”, in which he will reportedly argue that climate policy is “shutting down industries”. (It’s not clear if he’s bought carbon offsets for the 10 tonnes of carbon that a...

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  3. After the storm: how political attacks on renewables elevates attention paid to climate change
  4. El Niño in the Pacific has an impact on dolphins over in Western Australia
  5. Five things senators (and everyone else) should know about changes to HELP debts
  6. The Hanson effect: how hate seeps in and damages us all
  7. Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus
  8. Digital media are changing the face of buildings, and urban policy needs to change with them
  9. Ten questions you should ask before sharing data about your customers
  10. Science or Snake Oil: do men need sperm health supplements?
  11. Whatever happened to the 15-hour workweek?
  12. Why is the US trying to shut down Russian security company Kaspersky Lab?
  13. No chance of US gun control despite Las Vegas massacre; NZ left gains two seats after special votes
  14. Nick Xenophon set to go back to where he came from
  15. What the Nobel Prize tells us about the state of economics
  16. Revenge served cold: was Scott of the Antarctic sabotaged by his angry deputy?
  17. Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro shows us the illusion of connection with the world
  18. The reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities
  19. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the toughened terrorism laws
  20. Explainer: why is Western Australia fighting with miners over gold royalties?
  21. Ancestry, storytelling, and fighting racism with rap
  22. Taylor Mac makes history at Melbourne Festival opening
  23. Let's face it, we'll be no safer with a national facial recognition database
  24. Xenophon's shock resignation from Senate to run for state seat
  25. Research Check: can ‘Lightning Process’ coaching program help youths with chronic fatigue?
  26. Tom Petty died from a cardiac arrest – what makes this different to a heart attack and heart failure?
  27. Neanderthals didn't give us red hair but they certainly changed the way we sleep
  28. Are mass shootings a white man's problem?
  29. Super cute home robots are coming, but think twice before you trust them
  30. COAG meeting on counter-terrorism was more about politics than practice
  31. Friday essay: the recovery of cuneiform, the world's oldest known writing
  32. The government's new gas deal will ease the squeeze, but dodges the price issue
  33. Underground in Brisvegas: can an electronic dance music artist thrive outside the city?
  34. Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
  35. Sleep and the restless preschooler: why policies need to change
  36. Vital Signs: the data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees
  37. Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united
  38. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...
  39. Health Check: do we lose gains from exercise as our bodies get used to it?
  40. Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package
  41. Life frozen in time under an electron microscope gets a Nobel Prize
  42. Alternative facts do exist: beliefs, lies and politics
  43. Two puppeteers walk into a Japanese bathhouse in The Dark Inn
  44. Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree
  45. Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C
  46. Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket
  47. The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper
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