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Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro shows us the illusion of connection with the world

  • Written by Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra

English author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. For some weeks now, the bookies have been offering odds on the likely winner. Kenya’s Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was front runner earlier this week, followed closely by Japan’s Haruki Murakami. Ishiguro was some way down the list of favourites: a surprise...

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The reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities

  • Written by Liz Hanna, Honorary Senior Fellow, Australian National University
imageSydney is facing 50℃ summer days by 2040, new research says.Andy/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Australia is hot. But future extreme hot weather will be worse still, with new research predicting that Sydney and Melbourne are on course for 50℃ summer days by the 2040s if high greenhouse emissions continue. That means that places such...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the toughened terrorism laws

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

Michelle Grattan speaks to the University of Canberra’s Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics. They discuss the government’s tougher national security laws and the first update from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the same-sex marriage postal ballot.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive...

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Explainer: why is Western Australia fighting with miners over gold royalties?

  • Written by Diane Kraal, Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University

Gold miners are fighting back against the Western Australian government’s plan to hike gold royalties by 50%, from 2.5% per ounce to 3.75%.

Western Australia is trying to improve its budget position. The miners claim that they cannot absorb the royalty increase. This fight shows the need to take a closer look at gold royalties and how much...

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  1. Ancestry, storytelling, and fighting racism with rap
  2. Taylor Mac makes history at Melbourne Festival opening
  3. Let's face it, we'll be no safer with a national facial recognition database
  4. Xenophon's shock resignation from Senate to run for state seat
  5. Research Check: can ‘Lightning Process’ coaching program help youths with chronic fatigue?
  6. Tom Petty died from a cardiac arrest – what makes this different to a heart attack and heart failure?
  7. Neanderthals didn't give us red hair but they certainly changed the way we sleep
  8. Are mass shootings a white man's problem?
  9. Super cute home robots are coming, but think twice before you trust them
  10. COAG meeting on counter-terrorism was more about politics than practice
  11. Friday essay: the recovery of cuneiform, the world's oldest known writing
  12. The government's new gas deal will ease the squeeze, but dodges the price issue
  13. Underground in Brisvegas: can an electronic dance music artist thrive outside the city?
  14. Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
  15. Sleep and the restless preschooler: why policies need to change
  16. Vital Signs: the data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees
  17. Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united
  18. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...
  19. Health Check: do we lose gains from exercise as our bodies get used to it?
  20. Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package
  21. Life frozen in time under an electron microscope gets a Nobel Prize
  22. Alternative facts do exist: beliefs, lies and politics
  23. Two puppeteers walk into a Japanese bathhouse in The Dark Inn
  24. Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree
  25. Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C
  26. Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket
  27. The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper
  28. Passion and pain: why secessionist movements rarely succeed
  29. Room sharing is the new flat sharing
  30. Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
  31. Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
  32. How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs
  33. When it comes to the NBN, we keep having the same conversations over and over
  34. Is faster profit growth essential for a pick-up in wages growth?
  35. Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws
  36. Australia's $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
  37. Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?
  38. First act of the family law review should be using research we already have
  39. Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
  40. For whom the bell tolls: cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day
  41. Beyond sanctions: a diplomatic path to peace on the Korean Peninsula
  42. Driverless vehicles could bring out the best – or worst – in our cities by transforming land use
  43. Curious Kids: How do satellites get back to Earth?
  44. From beards to best friends, it's time to give 'fag hags' their badge of honour
  45. Should you be 'nudged' into better health without you even knowing?
  46. Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts
  47. An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize
  48. Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form
  49. Turnbull proposes tougher security measures
  50. Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS

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