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fakes, body doubles and mirrors from the analog to the digital lens

  • Written by: Cherine Fahd, Director Photography, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
fakes, body doubles and mirrors from the analog to the digital lensAfter the rainbow from the series Dark matter 2009, remastered 2016. Soda_Jerk/AGNSW

Review: Shadow Catchers at Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied using a body double, saying he’d been offered one before but declined. The rest of us, in our glorious anonymity, might take up the offer. An actual...

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Biden easily wins Super Tuesday after strong comeback in past few days

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Biden easily wins Super Tuesday after strong comeback in past few daysAAP/EPA/Etienne Laurent

Fourteen states held Democratic primaries on Tuesday US time. Joe Biden is likely to win ten of those states, to four wins for Bernie Sanders. Biden crushed Sanders by 47 points in Alabama, 30 points in Virginia, 19 in North Carolina, 18 in Arkansas, 17 in Tennessee and 13 in Oklahoma.

Biden had surprise wins in Minnesota...

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Support package gains shape as GDP turning point swamped

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

The good news is our economy was performing better than had been thought in the lead-up to the bushfires and coronavirus.

Updated figures in Wednesday’s national accounts show the economy grew 0.6% in the three months to September, rather than the 0.4% previously reported, and a healthier-than-expected 0.5% in the three months to December.

Com...

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Does your child know more about dinosaurs than dugongs? Perhaps they're reading the wrong books

  • Written by: Ayesha Tulloch, DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Does your child know more about dinosaurs than dugongs? Perhaps they're reading the wrong booksFlickr, CC BY-NC

Identifying the difference between a native burrowing frog and an introduced cane toad is fundamental ecological knowledge. After bushfires ravaged Australia’s animal and plant communities and razed millions of hectares of land, such knowledge has never been more important.

Ecological awareness shouldn’t be confined to...

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  4. Australian police are using the Clearview AI facial recognition system with no accountability
  5. Netanyahu set to survive another knife-edge Israeli election
  6. transform your garden or balcony into a wildlife haven
  7. Elite boys' schools like St Kevin's were set up to breed hyper-masculinity, which can easily turn toxic
  8. Lasting peace in Afghanistan now relies on the Taliban standing by its word. This has many Afghans concerned
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  10. Today's GDP figures won't tell us whether life is getting better -- here's what can
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  12. how crime books embraced lurid green
  13. COVID-19 has now reached New Zealand. How prepared is it to deal with a pandemic?
  14. One word repeated 9 times explains why the Reserve Bank cut: it's "coronavirus"
  15. AAP closure is the end of an era for unsung heroes of journalism
  16. The closure of AAP is yet another blow to public interest journalism in Australia
  17. How much food should my child be eating? And how can I get them to eat more healthily?
  18. After a summer of extremes, here's what to expect this autumn
  19. Beethoven's only opera bristles with contemporary relevance
  20. Why Modi's India has become a dangerous place for Muslims
  21. The first economic modelling of coronavirus scenarios is grim for Australia, the world
  22. The world may lose half its sandy beaches by 2100. It’s not too late to save most of them
  23. Adolescent family violence is a growing problem – and the legal system is making it worse
  24. Understanding emotions is nearly as important as IQ for students' academic success
  25. Unearthing a traditional Irish village that lingered in a South Australian field
  26. Worried about your child getting coronavirus? Here's what you need to know
  27. From crocodiles to krill, a warming world raises the 'costs' paid by developing embryos
  28. Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boys
  29. First locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases in Australia, as Attorney-General warns drastic legal powers could be used
  30. The deadly opioid fentanyl is turning up in disguise on Sydney streets, making illicit drug use even riskier
  31. A meeting of monsters at the Adelaide Biennial brings us closer to our fears
  32. Four bins might help, but to solve our waste crisis we need a strong market for recycled products
  33. We're staring down the barrel of a technical recession as the COVID-19 coronavirus enters a new and dangerous phase
  34. the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention
  35. Logging is due to start in fire-ravaged forests this week. It's the last thing our wildlife needs
  36. Turkey and Russia lock horns in Syria as fear of outright war escalates
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  38. Airlines take no chances with our safety. And neither should artificial intelligence
  39. Transport is letting Australia down in the race to cut emissions
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  41. Galloping gargoyles! Is Harry Potter losing his (earning) power?
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  43. Sun Yang ban shows world swimming body must establish an integrity commission
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