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Talking to John Clarke: a friend and biographer reflects

  • Written by: Anne Pender, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of New England
imageJohn Clarke: he particularly hated management speak.AAP

On the Thursday before that terrible Sunday when John collapsed during a hike in the Grampians, he sent me an email, alerting me to a typo in a biographical essay I had published about him. I was so grateful to him for taking the trouble to check the text and for pointing out the error, and...

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Australian politics explainer: the MV Tampa and the transformation of asylum-seeker policy

  • Written by: Alex Reilly, Deputy Dean and Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key moments in Australian political history, looking at what happened, its impact then, and its relevance to politics today.

Some time before August 23 2001, a small Indonesian fishing boat, the KM Palapa 1, left Indonesia en route to Christmas Island with 438 asylum seekers aboard.

Like many...

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The multi-billion-dollar subsidy for private health insurance isn't worth it

  • Written by: Elizabeth Savage, Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
imageConsumers continue to view private health insurance as poor value for money.shutterstock

Almost 20 years after the 30% subsidy for private health insurance was introduced, premiums continue to rise every year. This comes at a cost to the federal budget – which was forecast at A$6.5 billion in the 2016 federal budget from the subsidy alone.

Mea...

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Why S-Town invites empathy not voyeurism

  • Written by: Siobhan McHugh, Senior Lecturer, Journalism, University of Wollongong
imageBrian Reed, host of S-Town, somewhere in the woods of Bibb County, Alabama.Andrea Morales

Warning: this article contains spoilers.

With In Cold Blood, Truman Capote invented the non-fiction novel and turbocharged the genre of literary journalism. S-Town, a podcast by the team at Serial and This American Life that appeared on March 28th as seven...

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