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The off-topic Conversation #123

  • Written by: Molly Glassey, Audience Development Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Why do some graziers want to retain, not kill, dingoes?

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
imageAustralia has a complex relationship with the dingoAngus Emmott, Author provided

Vast, ancient, nutrient-poor, with wild swings between droughts, floods and fires: this describes much of the Australian continent. Livestock grazing and farming in such a land is certainly not without its challenges.

Where we’ve failed to work with the local...

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Navigating the post-truth debate: some key co-ordinates

  • Written by: Nick Enfield, Professor and Chair of Linguistics, University of Sydney
imagePublic anxiety about the post-truth era inspired a New York Times advertising campaign.

This article is the first in a series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in public discourse: the thriving economy of lies, bullshit and...

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Los Angeles Overnight – one of the best films you will (probably) never see

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageThe film captures the vivid but banal strangeness of Los Angeles. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

I had the privilege of attending a private screening, the other week, of Los Angeles Overnight, an extraordinarily good new low-budget film. Unfortunately, chances are you won’t get the same opportunity.

Los Angeles Overnight is the first feature film from...

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