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John Clarke: an unsurpassed craftsman of the Australasian voice

  • Written by: Patrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University

There are some writers whose voice, by sheer accident of timing in your life, reach far deeper into your brain than the specifics of what they wrote.

For me, it was the satirist and actor John Clarke, who died suddenly on Sunday while hiking in the Grampians, aged 68. I never met Clarke. But he taught me a great deal about the English language and...

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Why glamorising narco culture, on screen and in Sydney's pop-up shop, is wrong

  • Written by: César Albarrán Torres, Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
imagePhotos of some of the 43 Mexican college students who disappeared in 2014 and are feared to have been massacred by gang members and police. Screen depictions of Mexico's drug trade mostly ignore their human cost.Jorge Lopez/Reuters

The Australian streaming service Stan will open a pop-up restaurant called Los Pollos Hermanos in Sydney this week to...

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Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint

  • Written by: Martina Doblin, Senior Research Fellow, Plant Functional Biology & Climate Change, University of Technology Sydney
imageA man stretches his leg on the bank of the Han River as a ship passes by amid thick haze. Tens of thousands of premature deaths in east Asia every year are caused by shipping pollution. REUTERS/Stringer

Do you wear runners, drink coffee or own a mobile phone? The chances are that these products cruised to you on a ship. In 2015, the global...

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Explainer: shadow banking and where it came from

  • Written by: Huon Curtis, Senior Research Analyst, University of Technology Sydney

The term “shadow banking” often has connotations of dodgy lending and borrowing practices, out of reach of regulators. And while its use may contribute to risk, in reality shadow banking does serve a purpose in our economy, one that is increasingly connected to our day-to-day lives.

Shadow banking affects not only the property market,...

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  5. Farewell John Clarke: in an absurd world, we have never needed you more
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  7. FactCheck: do 679 of Australia's biggest corporations pay 'not one cent' of tax?
  8. Australian politics explainer: Robert Menzies and the birth of the Liberal-National coalition
  9. Is Paris climate deal really 'cactus', and would it matter if it was?
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