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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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