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Missing in action: the ABC and Australia’s screen culture

  • Written by: Kim Dalton, Adjunct Professor School of Communication and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageThe ABC's role as a provider of Australian stories can only grow with importance in a rapidly changing media landscape.Paul Miller/AAP

Achievements by the ABC to significantly increase levels of local drama, comedy, documentary, Indigenous and children’s content, as well as expand partnerships with independent production houses and creative...

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Money given to GPs from ending the Medicare rebate freeze should target reform

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageGeneral practice in Australia needs reform.from shutterstock.com

If the whispers are right, the Medicare rebate freeze will be partially lifted in next week’s federal budget, at a cost of half-a-billion dollars.

The previous Labor government introduced the freeze in 2013 as part of a A$664 million budget savings plan. The freeze, which the...

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Your sons and your daughters: mental health in the age of overtime

  • Written by: Courtney A Landers, PhD Candidate in Mental Health Genetics, University of Cambridge
imageIn a country consistently rated as one of the world’s most liveable, we’ve somehow developed a deadly disregard toward our own welfare.AAP/Joel Carrett

This piece is republished with permission from Millennials Strike Back, the 56th edition of Griffith Review. Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, and...

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We should create cities for slowing down

  • Written by: Marcus Foth, Professor, Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology
imageBrisbane cycle path signage: Slow!Michael Coghlan, CC BY-SA

Peter Jackson employed an intricate approach to the stage design of Lord of the Rings. The people who inhabited Middle Earth for hundreds of generations slowly left cultural traces, alterations, artefacts and remnants of their human existence on the environment.

For example, the...

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  2. Fighting the common fate of humans: to better life and beat death
  3. Climate change could drive coastal food webs to collapse
  4. Fruit juicers and hair brushes are now part of the Internet of (useless) Things
  5. GST carve-up to be examined by the Productivity Commission
  6. Queensland Galaxy: 52-48 to Labor as One Nation slumps
  7. Wittgenstein and the Dangers of Certainty
  8. Malcolm Turnbull leaves Julie Bishop in the hot seat in Abdel-Magied affair
  9. How Australia should react to the Trump tax cuts
  10. Government's oil and gas tax response will leave regional communities at a loss
  11. Trigger Warnings, Evidence-Based Policy and Media Literacy
  12. Inventing the Wicked Witch: Review of Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
  13. Van Gogh and the Seasons is a sensitively curated crowd-pleaser despite a paucity of masterpieces
  14. Why we shouldn't ignore what 13 Reasons Why is trying to tell us
  15. Evidence mounts for a search further north for missing flight MH370
  16. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's first meeting with Trump
  17. Economists split over Turnbull's plan to reserve gas for Australian customers
  18. Weekly Quiz: who was the youngest Twist child in Round The Twist?
  19. We must plan the driverless city to avoid being hostage to the technology revolution
  20. Teenagers who are both bully and victim are more likely to have suicidal thoughts
  21. Merged minor parties chase votes on the right as identity crisis grips Coalition
  22. Friday essay: moving autism on TV beyond the genius stereotype
  23. Unstacked: revealing the hidden gems of the State Library of NSW
  24. Every picture tells a story, but visualisation can tell the right one
  25. Vital Signs: what will end up in Scott Morrison's 'good' books?
  26. Why brain stimulation isn't what it's cracked up to be
  27. French and Australian experts on solving the world's sustainability challenge
  28. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull's pipe dreams channel ghost of Rex Connor
  29. Talking to John Clarke: a friend and biographer reflects
  30. Australian politics explainer: the MV Tampa and the transformation of asylum-seeker policy
  31. The multi-billion-dollar subsidy for private health insurance isn't worth it
  32. Why S-Town invites empathy not voyeurism
  33. Housing still out of reach for many even as rents fall in post-boom Western Australia
  34. Age discrimination in the workplace happening to people as young as 45: study
  35. The slow death of Australian children's TV drama
  36. Cyber attacks ten years on: from disruption to disinformation
  37. Australian politics explainer: the Mabo decision and native title
  38. How virtual reality spiders are helping people face their arachnophobia
  39. Budget to distinguish good and bad debt
  40. Gas export restrictions imposed to ensure domestic supply
  41. Abdel-Magied Anzac row is a storm over not much
  42. The schoolgirls of Charles Blackman – haunting works from a politically innocent age
  43. Explainer: what is reflation and is Australia experiencing it?
  44. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on North Korea's aggression
  45. Macron and Le Pen battle voter disdain as they square off for French presidency
  46. Investing in rural health brings dollar returns to local economies (and improves health)
  47. Backyard skinny-dippers lack effective laws to keep peeping drones at bay
  48. Self-esteem among narcissists is 'puffed up, but shaky'
  49. Chevron is just the start: modelling shows how many billions in revenue the government is missing out on
  50. The US, Russia and China: a twisted tale of personal ego, profound mistrust and foolish nationalism

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