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A new approach to culture

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas,” the composer John Cage once remarked, “I’m frightened of the old ones”. Last week’s announcement that the Myer, Tim Fairfax Family, and Keir Foundations are sponsoring “a new approach” to arts advocacy and research (and presumably...

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Health Check: do joint and muscle aches get worse in the cold?

  • Written by: Andrew Lavender, Lecturer, School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University
imageMany older people complain their aches and pains worsen in the cold. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The winter chill is often associated with an increase in aches and pains for many older people, particularly in the joints, but also in the muscles. Some recent studies have shown an increase in general aches and pain in older men and women, and in...

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The Buy Queensland strategy breaks international trade deals

  • Written by: Giovanni Di Lieto, Lecturer, Bachelor of International Business, Monash Business School, Monash University

The Queensland government’s new controversial procurement strategy stacks the deck of public tenders against interstate and international suppliers, and is illegitimate under Australia’s free trade agreements.

The strategy, Buy Queensland, is set to start next month. It will apply to all public agencies, statutory bodies and...

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Is The Bachelor anti-feminist, or is conventional heterosexual romance the real problem?

  • Written by: Beatrice Alba, Assistant Lecturer, Monash University
imageMatty J, the current Bachelor in the Australian version of the franchise, prepares to reward one of his suitors with a rose.Network 10/Warner Bros. International Television Production

The Bachelor attracts widespread criticism for being old-fashioned, anti-feminist, and humiliating to women.

The show involves a group of women competing for the...

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  1. Melbourne shows up Sydney in funding the most disadvantaged suburbs
  2. Bored reading science? Let's change how scientists write
  3. Curious Kids: Why don't the planets closest to the Sun melt or burn up?
  4. To the High Court we go: six MPs under clouds in decisions that could undermine the government
  5. Here's how many people get infections in Australian hospitals every year
  6. The hollow promise of construction-led jobs and growth
  7. For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research
  8. Costly signals needed to deliver inconvenient truth
  9. Climate change is a financial risk, according to a lawsuit against the CBA
  10. ABC targeted in government deal with Pauline Hanson
  11. No, it wasn't a conspiracy that caused Barnaby's problem – it was himself
  12. Cyberspace aggression adds to North Korea's threat to global security
  13. A fragmented streaming video market is good for everyone but the consumer
  14. No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems
  15. On brand: how Australia's apartment frenzy echoes the 1870s cattle boom
  16. Royal commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it's time to act
  17. Book review: The New Puberty
  18. What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years
  19. What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin
  20. What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  21. The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime
  22. The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour
  23. The science of being 'nice': how politeness is different from compassion
  24. Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
  25. 'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use
  26. New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil
  27. Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
  28. Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
  29. Poo transplants beyond the yuck factor: what works, what doesn't and what we still don't know
  30. FactCheck Q A: is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?
  31. The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares
  32. Post-lobstergate swings to Labor in 4 Vic marginal seats
  33. High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander
  34. A short history of the office
  35. Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it
  36. How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote
  37. Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why
  38. Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth
  39. Dancing brittle stars tell an ancient tale of life and death in brutal seas
  40. The bad buildings scream – lessons from Don Dale and other failed institutions
  41. Tweet streams: how social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health
  42. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
  43. Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment
  44. Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars
  45. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  46. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  47. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  48. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  49. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  50. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism

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