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Good Friday essay: Passion plays and the ethics of spectacular violence

  • Written by: Paul Megna, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia
imagePassion, Lament, Glory at Melbourne's St. Paul's Cathedral in 2017. Sarah Walker

In 1985 Filipino carpenter Ruben Enaje fell three storeys and remarkably, survived. To give thanks for this good fortune, he has, for the past 30 Good Fridays, dressed up as Jesus and allowed actors portraying Roman soldiers to nail his hands and feet to a cross in the...

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How to reclaim Easter from the chocolate companies

  • Written by: Nathan Grills, Associate Professor, Public Health Physician, University of Melbourne
imageTaking your Easter egg hunt to the park is one way of getting some exercise and reclaiming Easter from the chocolate companies at the same time.from www.shutterstock.com

You mightn’t feel inclined to while looking forward to eating plenty of chocolate eggs and bunnies on Sunday, but we should pay some attention to the impact of our Easter...

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How religion rises – and falls – in modern Australia

  • Written by: Gary D Bouma, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Monash University
imageYounger Australians seem particularly inclined to say they have "no religion".Shutterstock

In the past 50 years, the nature and shape of religion in Australia has changed dramatically. While secularisation and religious decline was one way of telling this story, it has become increasingly unsatisfactory.

Religion has not gone away, nor has it...

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VPNs become even more important as ISPs start collecting customer metadata

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageVPNs are becoming essentialShutterstock

As of today, Australian ISPs and telecommunications companies are officially required to collect “metadata” about their customers’ communications. According to the legislation, this data includes:

  • name, address, date of birth, email addresses and other identifying information of the person...

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  2. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on Australian self-reliance
  3. Expert panel: ATO data shows inequality is in everything from super to the property market
  4. Here's how superannuation is already financing homes
  5. 13 Reasons Why and Ageing Out of Pop Culture
  6. Don't worry, the odds of catching legionnaires' disease in Melbourne are pretty slim
  7. Millions of rotting fish: turtles and crays can save us from Carpageddon
  8. Syria is a mess, but the solution is complicated too
  9. Explainer: the war in Syria and the possibility of removing Assad
  10. When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are 'bullshit'
  11. Why does the Carmichael coal mine need to use so much water?
  12. Explainer: why some acts are classified as terrorism but others aren't
  13. What is 'success' in drug rehab? Programs need more than just anecdotes to prove they work
  14. How the blockchain will transform housing markets
  15. Guide to the Classics: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
  16. The school of hard knocks: driverless cars should learn lessons from crashes
  17. How murals helped turn a declining community around
  18. Anti-Trump backlash at US by-elections
  19. Australia’s climate bomb: the senselessness of Adani's Carmichael coal mine
  20. Attacking North Korea: surely Donald Trump couldn't be that foolish
  21. Health Check: does caffeine cause dehydration?
  22. Explainer: how wage growth contributes to the economy
  23. Back-to-back bleaching has now hit two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef
  24. How pop culture can (and should) change legal views on swearing
  25. Australia and India: some way to go yet
  26. Flu vaccine won't definitely stop you from getting the flu, but it's more important than you think
  27. Who owns the world? Tracing half the corporate giants' shares to 30 owners
  28. The research on hot-desking and activity-based work isn't so positive
  29. Denial: a timely reminder that we should confront distortions of history
  30. Feeling helpless about the Great Barrier Reef? Here's one way you can help
  31. Live fast, die young: a massive 'dead red' galaxy seen for the first time
  32. Unlocking the secrets of street ambience
  33. What we know about the April 4 chemical attack in Syria
  34. 30 years of Rage, and no signs of quietening
  35. The end of Catalyst: four ironies
  36. First results from the 2016 Census paint a picture of who the 'typical' Australian is
  37. Snout, sniff and sneeze: the language of the nose
  38. Census 2016: Women are still disadvantaged by the amount of unpaid housework they do
  39. Tobacco tax hikes are great, so long as you’re not a poor smoker
  40. Three charts on Australia's growing appetite for fast broadband
  41. John Clarke: an unsurpassed craftsman of the Australasian voice
  42. Why glamorising narco culture, on screen and in Sydney's pop-up shop, is wrong
  43. Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint
  44. Explainer: shadow banking and where it came from
  45. Where are they now? What public transport data reveal about lockout laws and nightlife patronage
  46. Yes, car seats protect children. But you need the right restraint, fitted properly
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