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Election fever doesn’t grip WA

  • Written by: Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
imageAAP/Rebecca Le May

Alert readers in the eastern states may have heard that their neglected cousins in the West are about to go to the polls. So what, I hear you say. It won’t make much difference at the national level, and the whole business is stupefyingly dull in any case.

You might have a point. But while the various campaigns have been a...

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The Secret River exquisitely illuminates the unspeakable under the stars

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
imageThe Secret River at Adelaide Festival with Ningali Lawford Wolf in foreground.Shane Reid

One way of looking at a story is as a mental suitcase that brings together a bunch of actions that would be unintelligible as disparate events. Its basic job is twofold: first, to name them, then to order them.

The naming can be confronting, akin to a biblical...

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In places where it's legal, how many people are ending their lives using euthanasia?

  • Written by: Andrew McGee, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
imageOne paper reported that between 0.3% to 4.6% of all deaths are reported as euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide in jurisdictions where they are legal.Flickr/Alberto Biscalchin, CC BY-NC-ND

The Victorian Parliament will consider a bill to legalise euthanasia in the second half of 2017. That follows the South Australian Parliament’s...

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Former ambassador Jeffrey Bleich speaks on Trump, disruptive technology, and the role of education in a changing economy

  • Written by: Jeffrey Bleich, Former US Ambassador to Australia; Chair of the Fulbright board; Visiting Professor and a member of the Council of Advisors at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
imageWe need to rethink our educational model, says Jeffrey Bleich.Alan Porritt/AAP

An edited transcript of the keynote address delivered by Jeffrey Bleich at Universities Australia’s higher education conference in Canberra on 1 March, 2017.

You can also listen to the full speech here:

Jeffrey Bleich’s keynote address. Recordin...

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  1. WA ReachTEL: Labor leads 52-48, One Nation down, Greens up
  2. A survival guide for the coming AI revolution
  3. Now for some good news: regular sex benefits your mental health, too
  4. Three reasons businesses are paying higher dividends rather than investing
  5. Foreign policy white paper should reflect the uncertainty of our times
  6. Explainer: where to from here on penalty rates?
  7. Women who commit violent crimes need programs to help them while in prison
  8. How to slash half a billion dollars a year from Australia's drugs bill
  9. The government needs to better enforce the laws it creates, to protect franchise workers
  10. Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
  11. Australia gets its first public display of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
  12. Grattan on Friday: The art of walking, forwards and backwards, and some thoughts on Brandis
  13. Climate change's signature was writ large on Australia's crazy summer of 2017
  14. Australia has kept disabled migrant children out for decades – it's time we gave them protection instead
  15. Where are the working-class characters on today's Australian TV?
  16. Catchphrase to cliché: how corporate-speak became common in our everyday lives
  17. Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces
  18. The mysterious disappearance of health from New South Wales planning laws
  19. Kenneth Arrow's legacy and why elections can be flawed
  20. Why it might be time to reconsider the money spent on genetics research
  21. Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia
  22. How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty
  23. When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey
  24. China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants
  25. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  26. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  27. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  28. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  29. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  30. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  31. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  32. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  33. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  34. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  35. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  36. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  37. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  38. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  39. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  40. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  41. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  42. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  43. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  44. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  45. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  46. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  47. Architecture, undistracted
  48. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  49. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  50. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program

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