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From clean cut kids to Christian comics to Riverdale: the Archiverse revolution

  • Written by: Peter Allen, Lecturer in Film and Television, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
imageCole Sprouse as Jughead Jones and KJ Apa as Archie Andrews in Riverdale.The CW

Archie Andrews has finally made the transition to a live action television series. Riverdale is airing on Netflix in Australia, but be warned, this millennial version of Archie may not be as you remember. According to show’s marketing blurb, Riverdale

Follows the...

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If we are reaching neoliberal capitalism's end days, what comes next?

  • Written by: Allan Patience, Principal Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne

It is unfashionable, or just embarrassing, to suggest the taken-for-granted late-modern economic order – neoliberal capitalism – may be in a terminal decline. At least that’s the case in what former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott likes to call the “Anglosphere”.

What was once known as the Chicago school of...

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Newspoll shows Coalition trailing 46-54% at start of new parliamentary session

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

With parliament resuming this week, the first Newspoll of 2017 has the government trailing Labor 46-54% on the two party vote and the Coalition’s primary vote falling four points to 35%.

This is the seventh consecutive Newspoll with the ALP ahead and the worst for the Coalition under Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership.

In results that...

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Snapchat's IPO filing does nothing to justify its US $25 billion valuation

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageSnap files for IPOMichael Nagle/Bloomberg News

Snapchat’s parent company Snap has filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock exchange. Hoping to raise US $3 billion, the IPO would value Snap at between US $20 and $25 billion dollars putting it at almost twice the expected valuation of Twitter when it went public in 2013....

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  1. Three ingredients for running a successful environmental campaign
  2. Joe Hockey lobbies Trump's right-hand men over refugee deal
  3. WA Newspoll: 54-46 to Labor with One Nation at 13%
  4. High Court confirms Rod Culleton is not a senator – so what happens next?
  5. Joyous, comic and grim: the best new Indigenous playwrights
  6. How storytelling drives finance and economics
  7. Eight podcasts to get between your ears this year
  8. Maybe moderate drinking isn't so good for you after all
  9. Vital Signs: time to shift the goalposts on investor lending again?
  10. University vice chancellors say Trump order threatens global research
  11. To resist Trump’s tyranny, just don’t comply
  12. Will the diplomatic aggravation and reputational damage to Turnbull and Australia have been worth it?
  13. Growth of women’s football has been a 100-year revolution – it didn't happen overnight
  14. The legal minefield of 3D printed guns
  15. How do you know if your child is ready to start school?
  16. Hard work, not 'Confucian' mentality, underpins Chinese success overseas
  17. Friday essay: trace fossils – the silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium.
  18. ADHD: claims we're diagnosing immature behaviour make it worse for those affected
  19. Grattan on Friday: Malcolm Turnbull should walk away from the refugee deal
  20. New coal plants wouldn't be clean, and would cost billions in taxpayer subsidies
  21. The government is right to fund energy storage: a 100% renewable grid is within reach
  22. Sensible reform to finance affordable housing deserves cross-party support
  23. Turnbull's $1.75 million donation is bad news for Australian democracy
  24. Turnbull’s energy game-changer
  25. Do vegetarians live longer? Probably, but not because they're vegetarian
  26. US embassy says refugee deal stands, but Trump casts new doubt in tweet
  27. Finding flow: learning Ruby on the job
  28. Why do we need a phonics test for six-year-olds?
  29. Make housing affordable and cut road congestion all at once? Here's a way
  30. What's the benefit in making human-animal hybrids?
  31. Educating Australia – why our schools aren't improving
  32. Work hour limits need to change for better mental health and gender equality
  33. Hugh Mackay: the state of the nation starts in your street
  34. Fornication, fluids and faeces: the intimate life of the French court
  35. Dietary guidelines don't work. Here's how to fix them
  36. Why we can't spin a silken yarn as strong as a spider can
  37. Turnbull's right: we need cheap, clean and reliable power – here's how
  38. Turnbull finally reveals his Liberal donation was $1.75 million
  39. Turnbull's energy policy vision: heavy on direction, light on action
  40. Sobering health stats in latest Productivity Commission report
  41. Turnbull believes in timely disclosure of donations – just not his
  42. When the drugs don’t work: how we can turn the tide of antimicrobial resistance
  43. Enough with the Doctor Who gender debate – it's time
  44. Interactive: a snapshot of political donations in Australia for 2015-16
  45. Why, only now, are we finding out who the biggest donors in an election year were?
  46. What has Turnbull agreed to do for Trump?
  47. What economists and tax experts think of the company tax cut
  48. What did Galaxy's poll tell us about freedom of speech and 18C? Not what the IPA said it did
  49. It's time to focus on an endgame for tobacco regulation
  50. Listen up: a plan to help scientists get their research heard by decision-makers

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The strategic rise of Bali as Australia’s next essential healthcare support hub

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Cost Savings and Benefits of Using Used Pallets in Logistics

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How Fulfilment Services in Australia Help Businesses Scale Efficiently

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