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Turning Hazelwood's empty coal mine into a lake could help heal mining towns

  • Written by: Melanie Blanchette, Research Fellow in Freshwater Science, Edith Cowan University
imageThe Hazelwood mine will fill with water once it's closed.AAP/Country Fire Authority

The Hazelwood coal mine and power plant has employed generations of families in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley since the end of the second world war. With the mine to close at the end of March 2017, hundreds of local residents face unemployment. When the mining...

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Vital Signs: war gaming the economic fallout from Brexit

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: A break from normal programming to talk about the Brexit impact.


The important but minute details of...

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Friday essay: finding spaces for love

  • Written by: Patricia Simons, Professor of Early Modern Art History, University of Michigan
imageAugustin Burdet (engraver) French active (19th century) Victor Marie Picot (after) Cupid and Psyche (c. 1817) engraving 39.9 x 49.2 cm (image), 49.4 x 57.5 cm (sheet) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1927 (3506-3)

Ideas about love changed a great deal over the centuries before modernity. Romantic love and a primary focus on...

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