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Merged minor parties chase votes on the right as identity crisis grips Coalition

  • Written by: Zareh Ghazarian, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
imageCory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives party has amalgamated with Family First, which shares similar social conservative values.AAP/Lukas Coch

Cory Bernardi entered a new phase of his political career by announcing this week that his nascent Australian Conservatives party was to merge with Family First.

The merger makes sense. Both parties advance...

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Friday essay: moving autism on TV beyond the genius stereotype

  • Written by: Katie Sutherland, Doctor of Creative Arts Candidate, Western Sydney University
imageJulia (with the orange hair) and her friends from Sesame Street. Zach Hyman

I am watching Sesame Street with my two boys, aged 11 and 13. Admittedly they’re a bit old for Elmo and Big Bird, but this is a special occasion. It is the debut episode for the television show’s newest Muppet on the block, Julia, a sweet four-year-old...

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Unstacked: revealing the hidden gems of the State Library of NSW

  • Written by: Elisa Lee, Lecturer and tutor in Visual Communications, University of Technology Sydney
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What are people looking for when they browse the State Library of NSW’s collection of six million items?

There are books in there, of course, but also photographs, soldiers diaries from World War One, locks of childrens’ hair, a vast array of paintings and sketches, maps, diaries from First Fleet officers and soldiers, Aboriginal...

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Every picture tells a story, but visualisation can tell the right one

  • Written by: Quang Vinh Nguyen, Senior Lecturer in Visual Analytics, Western Sydney University
imageThe right visualisation will stand on its own as a communication tool. from www.shutterstock.com

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

But how much data can a picture capture? Or, more interestingly, how can a picture tell a story that’s hiding in data?

Our eyes can process vast amounts of information rapidly, and we can take...

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  21. Macron and Le Pen battle voter disdain as they square off for French presidency
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