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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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  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
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  16. The school of hard knocks: driverless cars should learn lessons from crashes
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  20. Attacking North Korea: surely Donald Trump couldn't be that foolish
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  25. Australia and India: some way to go yet
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  29. Denial: a timely reminder that we should confront distortions of history
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