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Van Gogh and the Seasons is a sensitively curated crowd-pleaser despite a paucity of masterpieces

  • Written by: Anita Pisch, Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
imageA detail from Vincent Van Gogh's A wheatfield, with cypresses, early September 1889. National Gallery, London. Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1923 (NG3861) © The National Gallery, London

Van Gogh and the Seasons, showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, is more than an opportunity for a geographically isolated Australian audience to view the...

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Why we shouldn't ignore what 13 Reasons Why is trying to tell us

  • Written by: Sharyn Burns, Associate Professor, Curtin University
image13 Reasons Why is the story of high-school student Hannah, who took her own life and left 13 tapes explaining why.IMDb/Kicked to the Curb Productions, Anonymous Content, July Moon Productions, Paramount Television

The Netflix show 13 Reasons Why has stirred debate recently, with growing numbers of calls to counselling services from those alarmed...

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Evidence mounts for a search further north for missing flight MH370

  • Written by: Charitha Pattiaratchi, Professor of Coastal Oceanography, University of Western Australia

It is now more than three years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, and there is growing evidence that the search authorities have been looking for the aircraft in the wrong place.

The disappearance, on March 8, 2014, is considered as one of the biggest mysteries in aviation and the search of the seabed for the wreckage, costing A$200...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's first meeting with Trump

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will have his first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump in New York. Michelle Grattan tells University of Canberra deputy vice-chancellor professor Nick Klomp it provides an early opportunity for the two men get to know each other – at a rather different level from the phone-call level.

“The...

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  2. Weekly Quiz: who was the youngest Twist child in Round The Twist?
  3. We must plan the driverless city to avoid being hostage to the technology revolution
  4. Teenagers who are both bully and victim are more likely to have suicidal thoughts
  5. Merged minor parties chase votes on the right as identity crisis grips Coalition
  6. Friday essay: moving autism on TV beyond the genius stereotype
  7. Unstacked: revealing the hidden gems of the State Library of NSW
  8. Every picture tells a story, but visualisation can tell the right one
  9. Vital Signs: what will end up in Scott Morrison's 'good' books?
  10. Why brain stimulation isn't what it's cracked up to be
  11. French and Australian experts on solving the world's sustainability challenge
  12. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull's pipe dreams channel ghost of Rex Connor
  13. Talking to John Clarke: a friend and biographer reflects
  14. Australian politics explainer: the MV Tampa and the transformation of asylum-seeker policy
  15. The multi-billion-dollar subsidy for private health insurance isn't worth it
  16. Why S-Town invites empathy not voyeurism
  17. Housing still out of reach for many even as rents fall in post-boom Western Australia
  18. Age discrimination in the workplace happening to people as young as 45: study
  19. The slow death of Australian children's TV drama
  20. Cyber attacks ten years on: from disruption to disinformation
  21. Australian politics explainer: the Mabo decision and native title
  22. How virtual reality spiders are helping people face their arachnophobia
  23. Budget to distinguish good and bad debt
  24. Gas export restrictions imposed to ensure domestic supply
  25. Abdel-Magied Anzac row is a storm over not much
  26. The schoolgirls of Charles Blackman – haunting works from a politically innocent age
  27. Explainer: what is reflation and is Australia experiencing it?
  28. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on North Korea's aggression
  29. Macron and Le Pen battle voter disdain as they square off for French presidency
  30. Investing in rural health brings dollar returns to local economies (and improves health)
  31. Backyard skinny-dippers lack effective laws to keep peeping drones at bay
  32. Self-esteem among narcissists is 'puffed up, but shaky'
  33. Chevron is just the start: modelling shows how many billions in revenue the government is missing out on
  34. The US, Russia and China: a twisted tale of personal ego, profound mistrust and foolish nationalism
  35. Five things the east coast can learn from WA about energy
  36. Here's looking at: Vincent Van Gogh’s Olive grove with two olive pickers
  37. Cities are complex systems – let’s start looking at them that way
  38. Health Check: what can your doctor tell from your urine?
  39. No, epigenetics and environmental responsiveness don’t undermine Darwinian evolution
  40. Curious Kids: Does space go on forever?
  41. Your headphones aren't spying on you, but your apps are. Here is why
  42. Turnbull expects to meet Trump next week
  43. Witch-hunts and surveillance: the hidden lives of queer people in the military
  44. Stitching lives back together: men's rehabilitation embroidery in WWI
  45. How Anzac Day came to occupy a sacred place in Australians' hearts
  46. Discovered in WWI, bacterial viruses may be our allies in a post-antibiotic age
  47. English language bar for citizenship likely to further disadvantage refugees
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