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Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity

  • Written by Conrad Hamann, Associate Professor of Architectural History, RMIT University
imageTile detail of RMIT's Building 8, one of Peter Corrigan's most famous designs.Rob Deutscher/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Peter Corrigan died last Thursday morning, the first day of summer. He was 77. He had worked as an architect and theatre designer from the early 1960s, and from 1974 with his collaborator and life partner Maggie Edmond. Their partnership saw...

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We don't need greater access to Nembutal to achieve good end-of-life care

  • Written by Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University
imageBarbiturates have been used for several purposes including to treat sleep disorders, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury – as well as in anaesthesia and psychiatry.from shutterstock.com

In recent discussions about legalising euthanasia, the drug best known under its American brand name Nembutal has been widely promoted by advocates as a...

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Australia’s human rights debate has always been political

  • Written by Jon Piccini, UQ Research Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
imageHuman Rights Commission president Gillian TriggsAAP/Joel Carrett

Human rights have been a hot topic of late. The Australian Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs, has been accused of politicising her position, while The Australian newspaper and conservative politicians have led a campaign against Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination...

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PISA results don’t look good, but before we panic let’s look at what we can learn from the latest test

  • Written by Stewart Riddle, Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
imageAustralia has slipped further down the international rankings in maths, science and reading. from www.shutterstock.com

The 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results have been released - and on first glance, it does not look good for Australia.

On global comparisons, Australia performed equal 10th in science (down from 8th in...

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  1. Five ways to spend with more social purpose this Christmas
  2. Hanson thinks Culleton has swollen head
  3. Wings of desire, demise and adaptation: birds in Australian art
  4. First the word, then the deed: how an 'ethnocracy' like Australia works
  5. Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs
  6. What’s next for Italy?
  7. Does medical research funding need a paradigm shift?
  8. When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements
  9. Drugs for delirium don't work, and may in fact harm
  10. Why OPEC's squeeze on oil prices is getting weaker all the time
  11. Great Barrier Reef needs far more help than Australia claims in its latest report to UNESCO
  12. Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill
  13. 'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like
  14. The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians
  15. Listen up: running sounds contain clues for injury prevention
  16. Australia's political elites are fiddling while Rome burns
  17. Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
  18. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 4
  19. The 'no' vote in Italy's referendum triggers economic and political uncertainty
  20. Tipping the scales on Christmas Island: wasps and bugs use other species, so why can’t we?
  21. Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
  22. Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'
  23. Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
  24. Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army
  25. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  26. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
  27. Goodbye, Dolly, the magazine that helped so many young women grow up
  28. Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
  29. Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here's how we find out
  30. Health Check: do home remedies for common warts really work?
  31. Why don't more people volunteer? Misconceptions don't help
  32. Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
  33. Neighbours' fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts
  34. From 'fascists' to 'feminazis': how both sides of politics are biased in their political thinking
  35. The worst year for mosquitoes ever? Here's how we find out
  36. Can we blame climate change for thunderstorm asthma?
  37. The Business Council of Australia and its new head need a reality check
  38. Imitation game: how copies can solve our cultural heritage crises
  39. What can Australia learn from Germany's remarkable energy transition?
  40. Nitrogen pollution: the forgotten element of climate change
  41. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 3
  42. The underbelly of sport: Dirty Games
  43. Trump rewrites the diplomatic rule book
  44. Will Italy's referendum trigger the next crisis?
  45. A New Politics of Time
  46. ABCC amended local content rules will help Australian steelmakers compete against low-quality imports
  47. Pinchgut's Theodora brings the irrational power of love to uncertain times
  48. Inquiry into Lyme-like illness calls for more research and better treatment
  49. South Australia's reasons for voting down euthanasia go against the evidence
  50. Great Barrier Reef report to UN shows the poor progress on water quality

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