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Murky waters: why is Japan still whaling in the Southern Ocean?

  • Written by: Indi Hodgson-Johnston, Antarctic Law Researcher, PhD Candidate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
imageA photo from Sea Shepherd allegedly shows a Japanese whaling vessel with a dead minke whale on board. EPA/GLENN LOCKITCH / SEA SHEPHERD HANDOUT

Photographs allegedly showing Japanese whaling operations in the Southern Ocean emerged this week. Coinciding with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Australia, critics have called for grea...

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Turnbull makes a good start on expenses, but needs to go further

  • Written by: Colleen Lewis, Adjunct Professor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
imageMalcolm Turnbull is to be congratulated for taking action to curb expenses scandals.AAP/Michael Wade

It is regrettable that the path leading to the establishment of an independent body to oversee the work-related expenses of parliamentarians has been so tortuous. It is also regrettable that it took such an inordinate amount of time for a political...

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Taking a VR trip in Shaun Gladwell's floating planetoid skull

  • Written by: Kit Messham-Muir, Associate professor in Art, Curtin University
imageA still image from Orbital Venus.Shaun Gladwell

You’re in orbit. Beneath you is the Earth, almost completely in darkness, and in the distance an object momentarily eclipses the sun. It comes closer – it’s a human skull – and it swallows you whole.

You spend the next few minutes skirting its cavernous interior, narrowly...

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What’s the point of sex? It frames gender expression and identity – or does it?

  • Written by: Jayne Lucke, Professor & Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
imageSocial definitions of sex tend to oversimplify the biological determinants of gender and anatomy. renawgraphy/flickr , CC BY-SA

The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But there’s more to sex than just the meeting of two sets of genes. The...

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