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Ancestry, storytelling, and fighting racism with rap

  • Written by: William Peterson, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
imageJoelistics (left) and James Mangohig in In Between Two. WilliamYang

“We are our ancestors’ unfinished sentences, we are their wildest dreams and their most elaborate re-mixes,” says Asian-Australian rapper Joelistics’ (Joel Ma) at the end of a breathtaking 70 minutes of beats, raps, and storytelling in In Between Two. It is...

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Taylor Mac makes history at Melbourne Festival opening

  • Written by: Sarah Balkin, Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne
imageTaylor Mac performs in The Inauguration at the Melbourne Festival. Jim Lee

Taylor Mac described The Inauguration, which helped launch the 2017 Melbourne Festival, as “a Radical Faerie realness ritual”. The Inauguration was a 90-minute show featuring selections from Mac’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated A 24-Decade History of Popular...

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Let's face it, we'll be no safer with a national facial recognition database

  • Written by: Bruce Baer Arnold, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
imageMany more faces to be added to a national database, but will it make us any safer?Shutterstock copy/Andrey_Popov

A commitment to share the biometric data of most Australians – including your driving licence photo – agreed at Thursday’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting will result in a further erosion of our privacy....

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Xenophon's shock resignation from Senate to run for state seat

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageNick Xenophon will resign from the Senate to pursue a career in South Australian politics.AAP/David Mariuz

Key crossbencher Nick Xenophon, whose party commands three crucial Senate votes, has announced he will quit federal parliament to run for a state seat in the March South Australian election.

Xenophon’s shock announcement comes ahead of...

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  1. Research Check: can ‘Lightning Process’ coaching program help youths with chronic fatigue?
  2. Tom Petty died from a cardiac arrest – what makes this different to a heart attack and heart failure?
  3. Neanderthals didn't give us red hair but they certainly changed the way we sleep
  4. Are mass shootings a white man's problem?
  5. Super cute home robots are coming, but think twice before you trust them
  6. COAG meeting on counter-terrorism was more about politics than practice
  7. Friday essay: the recovery of cuneiform, the world's oldest known writing
  8. The government's new gas deal will ease the squeeze, but dodges the price issue
  9. Underground in Brisvegas: can an electronic dance music artist thrive outside the city?
  10. Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
  11. Sleep and the restless preschooler: why policies need to change
  12. Vital Signs: the data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees
  13. Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united
  14. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...
  15. Health Check: do we lose gains from exercise as our bodies get used to it?
  16. Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package
  17. Life frozen in time under an electron microscope gets a Nobel Prize
  18. Alternative facts do exist: beliefs, lies and politics
  19. Two puppeteers walk into a Japanese bathhouse in The Dark Inn
  20. Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree
  21. Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C
  22. Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket
  23. The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper
  24. Passion and pain: why secessionist movements rarely succeed
  25. Room sharing is the new flat sharing
  26. Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
  27. Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
  28. How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs
  29. When it comes to the NBN, we keep having the same conversations over and over
  30. Is faster profit growth essential for a pick-up in wages growth?
  31. Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws
  32. Australia's $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
  33. Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?
  34. First act of the family law review should be using research we already have
  35. Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
  36. For whom the bell tolls: cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day
  37. Beyond sanctions: a diplomatic path to peace on the Korean Peninsula
  38. Driverless vehicles could bring out the best – or worst – in our cities by transforming land use
  39. Curious Kids: How do satellites get back to Earth?
  40. From beards to best friends, it's time to give 'fag hags' their badge of honour
  41. Should you be 'nudged' into better health without you even knowing?
  42. Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts
  43. An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize
  44. Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form
  45. Turnbull proposes tougher security measures
  46. Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS
  47. Magpies can form friendships with people – here's how
  48. People diagnosed with the same mental illness can be quite different, and research must address this
  49. The philosopher who was too hot for Playboy
  50. Price still up in the air as gas producers sign supply deal

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