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Flat white urbanism: there must be better ways to foster a vibrant street life

  • Written by: Timothy Moore, PhD Candidate, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
imageThe flat white experience is so ubiquitous that it could be anywhere.mavo from www.shutterstock.com

Iconic architectural pieces may attract large numbers of tourists but are not the only things that live in the memories of visitors to Australian cities. Everyday experiences also endure. In fact, eating is one of the top tourist activities.

It’...

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Worshipping at the church of Ford: how modern brand devotion connects people online

  • Written by: Simon Pervan, Associate Professor in Marketing and Department Chair Management and Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
imagePeople disclosing their emotional responses to brands online, helps connect better with others.Facebook

It’s all I ever think and talk about. They are everything to me.

With this sort of a passion you would think this person is talking about a loved one, but this person is actually talking about a car. And not just any car, a very specific...

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Vital Signs: have we finally reached 'peak' house prices?

  • 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: house prices in Sydney and Melbourne are cooling, housing approvals are up, and everyone’s...

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Friday essay: power, perils and rites of passage – the history of the female tattoo

  • Written by: Emily Poelina-Hunter, Lecturer in the Indigenous Studies Unit, RMIT University
imageFor thousands of years, women's tattoos have been permanent records of female power over adversity.Shutterstock

Almost a quarter of Australian women now have tattoos - a trend some attribute to the influence of feminism. What I find interesting is that the mainstreaming of female tattooing in the west has finally caught up with a practice that is...

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  1. Explainer: how does funding work in the Catholic school system?
  2. Grattan on Friday: Now it's the ASIO chief who is the target of the vocal right
  3. In defence of grammar pedantry
  4. How our research is helping clean up coal-mining pollution in a World Heritage-listed river
  5. Politics podcast: Matt Canavan on Adani
  6. Explainer: how proceeds-of-crime law works in Australia
  7. Indonesian Muslim women engage with feminism
  8. Speaking with: Tony Kevin on his return to Moscow and the new Cold War with Russia
  9. Explainer: what is chemotherapy and how does it work?
  10. Not all students with a disability need funding
  11. Taking Asia’s temperature at Shangri-La
  12. Family break-up raises homelessness risk, and critical period is longer for boys
  13. After-hours GP home visits strain the budget (and don't help emergency departments)
  14. Three charts on: Australia's changing drug and alcohol habits
  15. The world's coral reefs are in trouble, but don't give up on them yet
  16. Global stocktake shows the 43 greenhouse gases driving global warming
  17. The best way to support writers is to feed them new ideas
  18. Regional universities have a pivotal role to play in Australia's City Deals
  19. Fancy government financing could still cost the taxpayer
  20. From botnet to malware: a guide to decoding cybersecurity buzzwords
  21. Liberal MP confronts Turnbull over aged care decisions
  22. Companies should take charge of the potential toxins in common products
  23. Juno mission unveils Jupiter’s complex interior, weather and magnetism
  24. After Uluru, we must focus on a treaty ahead of constitutional recognition
  25. No rest over Easter as the barrage of news continues on Twitter
  26. It's happening again ... our love affair with TV reboots
  27. Twitter's plan to help young people not get too overwhelmed by bad news doesn't go far enough
  28. Research shows if you improve the air quality at work, you improve productivity
  29. Curious Kids: Why do adults think video games are bad?
  30. Sydneysiders blame foreign investors for high housing prices – survey
  31. The government should pick towns, not industries, to fund
  32. Christianity does not play a significant role in Australian politics, but cultural conservatism does
  33. The science of taste, or why you choose fries over broccoli
  34. How we can help refugee kids to thrive in Australia
  35. The US quitting the Paris climate agreement will only make things worse
  36. Tax take shrinks as online accommodation agents rake it in
  37. GetUp raises nearly $200,000 in crowdfunding to campaign against Peter Dutton
  38. Newspoll steady at 53-47 to Labor. Plus UK and French elections
  39. When it comes to ransomware, it's sometimes best to pay up
  40. Review: Wonder Woman reinvigorates tired superhero conventions
  41. Trump demands a post-post-truth response
  42. Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways
  43. Turnbull should deliver Gonski schools plan faster: Grattan Institute
  44. Improving Australia’s health requires better use of patient information
  45. Australia's videogames are inventive, acclaimed and world-class, so where's the government support?
  46. Fifty years on from the 1967 referendum, it's time to tell the truth about race
  47. Why the seemingly tidy, leaked proposal for hospital funding may be a problem policy
  48. Confused about changes to school funding? Here's what you need to know
  49. The government will likely get more from the bank levy than Labor or the big four think
  50. Should we negotiate with terrorist hostage takers?

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