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Australian authorities are doing all they can to combat terrorism

  • Written by: Adrian Cherney, Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
imageAustralian authorities have been working to come up with a comprehensive response to terrorist threats.AAP/Julian Smith

The recent terror attacks in London and Manchester have raised concerns about whether authorities here in Australia are doing enough to combat terrorism.

These events have led to accusations that police and security agencies are...

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Vital Signs: what does Treasurer Morrison mean when he says we're 'growing into the growth'?

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: Australia’s economic growth is unsurprisingly paltry, the RBA leaves the cash rate on hold, and...

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There’s a city in my mind ...

  • Written by: Bree Trevena, PhD Researcher, Research Unit in Public Cultures, University of Melbourne
imageBicycles are the main form of transport around the Burning Man Festival and are recycled or gifted afterwards.stuartlchambers/flickr, CC BY-NC

On the alkali flats of north-western Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, the featureless yellow-packed playa (desert basin floor) stretches to the horizon. Under a 38-degree sun, the dry air peels back the...

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Friday essay: the 90s - why you had to be there

  • Written by: Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University
image90s sister Sophie Lee in Patricia Piccinini's Psychogeography 1996, printed 1998 from the Psycho series 1996.National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Optus Communications Pty Limited, Member, 1998 (1998.252) © Patricia Piccinini

Van Gogh shot himself in a wheat field. Kurt...

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  4. Grattan on Friday: Terrorism's footprint on our politics
  5. What's holding up the blockchain?
  6. Where are the epic women's coming of age screen stories?
  7. Five ways older Australians can embrace technology to redefine later life
  8. How Indigenous tourism can help bring about reconciliation in Australia
  9. You should care about your doctor's health, because it matters to yours
  10. Explainer: what is a 'low emissions target' and how would it work?
  11. Schapelle Corby fails to draw a Twitter audience
  12. New Moroccan fossils suggest humans lived and evolved across Africa 100,000 years earlier than we thought
  13. Conservatives no longer a shoo-in as UK voters head to the polls
  14. From man-eaters to Pokémon: the weird world of cactus culture
  15. Is policy on Indigenous education deliberately being stalled?
  16. Six things every consumer should know about the 'Internet of Things'
  17. Melbourne's love-hate relationship with being Australia's 'street art capital'
  18. When do we stop vaccinating against an infectious disease?
  19. What is a pre-industrial climate and why does it matter?
  20. Tougher national parole laws won't end the violence
  21. Bob Dylan's Nobel speech: a splendidly eccentric performance
  22. While nations play politics, cities and states are taking up the climate challenge
  23. Four ways social media companies and security agencies can tackle terrorism
  24. Deliberative democracy must rise to the threat of populist rhetoric
  25. As a peace loving warrior, might Wonder Woman unite feminists?
  26. Explainer: what causes alopecia areata and can you treat this type of hair loss?
  27. Three charts on: Australia's growing rates of weight loss surgery
  28. Looking at terror attacks 'per capita' should make us rethink beliefs about levels of risk and Muslims
  29. Curious Kids: Do sharks sneeze?
  30. Adani gives itself the green light, but that doesn't change the economics of coal
  31. Winter warmth is in the forecast (but don't celebrate yet)
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  35. Vale Anthony Foster – a man of deep courage and quiet determination
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  37. Retirement and regeneration: how robots and replicants experience death
  38. Vaginal mesh controversy shows collective failure of the TGA and Australia's specialists
  39. In a fractured world, Eurovisions opens a dialogue through art
  40. Chinese influence compromises the integrity of our politics
  41. No flies on Australia's richest union
  42. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on handling Islamist terrorism
  43. Labour victory possible at UK general election
  44. How Australia became a nation, and women won the vote
  45. FactCheck Q A: are Indigenous Australians the most incarcerated people on Earth?
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