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Trump the demagogue looks set to rule

  • Written by Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
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As political earthquakes go, they don’t get much more seismic or unexpected. All of the pointy-heads who have been assuring us for weeks that Trump couldn’t possibly win have been proved spectacularly wrong once again – just as they were with Brexit.

That’s the problem with democracies: the punters don’t always...

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Vital Signs: it's a Trumptastrophe

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Australia
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Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: a break from normal programming to take in the market reaction to the US election.

I was going to write...

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Why all the super buzz about the supermoon?

  • Written by Tanya Hill, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museum Victoria
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A beautiful full moon will grace our skies on Monday November 14 this year. Full moons always rise around sunset, so look for it towards the east during evening twilight.

Every month, occasionally even twice a month, the full moon adorns the night. What makes this...

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Why hundreds of thousands of Muslims rallied against the Jakarta governor

  • Written by Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir, PhD Candidate in Politics at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne

Last week, around 200,000 people marched in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities to protest Chinese-Christian Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama for allegedly “insulting Islam”.

The rally was organised by the Islamic Defenders Front, a hardline Islamic militia group known in Indonesia as the FPI, and was the biggest social...

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  1. Self control, the harms of pot, and fat genes: how the 44-year-old Dunedin study keeps on giving
  2. Election day arrives and the stakes are high, not just for the US but the world
  3. Timeline: Americans, the economy and elections
  4. Business Briefing: what Australia can learn from a Polish economist
  5. Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
  6. Radical overhaul needed to halt Earth’s sixth great extinction event
  7. The lessons we need to learn to deal with the 'creeping disaster' of drought
  8. Scientists ponder the evolutionary urge to create - but where are the women?
  9. Why we're more likely to date someone who has an ex
  10. Tougher action needed in the fight against scientific fraud
  11. Advertising is driving social media-fuelled fake news and it is here to stay
  12. Senate report calls for disallowance of Brandis's direction to Solicitor-General
  13. Inquiry opens way for changing Section 18C and the Human Rights Commission too
  14. Politics podcast: Julian Leeser on section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
  15. Equity crowdfunding requires a rethink on company structure
  16. Do we care about old people behind bars, and should we?
  17. With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation
  18. The plebiscite is dead, but the quest for marriage equality lives on
  19. Fifty standout articles in The Conversation's 2016 Yearbook
  20. Australian law needs a refresher on the science of HIV transmission
  21. Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders
  22. Explainer: why an Australian trade deal with the UK could take a decade
  23. Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change
  24. Planning for a rainy day: there's still lots to learn about Australia's flood patterns
  25. Natural disasters are affecting some of Australia's most disadvantaged communities
  26. Despite business' best efforts whistleblowers still lack protection under Australian law: new research
  27. What’s gender solidarity got to do with it? Woman shaming and Hillary Clinton
  28. Can private security companies improve responses to victims of family violence?
  29. Should family members of those with mental illness have access to their health information?
  30. Expansion is no longer the answer to improving the Australian education system
  31. Senate kills plebiscite, leaving same-sex marriage on indefinite hold
  32. Under President Trump the misinformed citizen will reign supreme
  33. Intelligence agencies to be scrutinised
  34. How Jakarta's first Chinese Indonesian governor became an easy target for radical Islamic groups
  35. Hanson backs sending her senator to the High Court
  36. Community organisations lack the funding and data to measure their impact
  37. US Election Day predictions: President, Governors, Senate and House of Representatives
  38. Human Rights Commission takes on Turnbull
  39. Hope and aspiration at the National Architecture Awards
  40. European leaders taking cues from Australia on asylum seeker policies
  41. Health Check: why do we get a stitch and how can we stop it?
  42. Explainer: what are antibodies and why are viruses like dengue worse the second time?
  43. For single parents, it pays to work
  44. 2015's record-breaking temperatures will be normal by 2030 - it's time to adapt
  45. The evidence of early human life in Australia's arid interior
  46. Obama, Trump, Clinton and the affordances of distance
  47. The off-topic Conversation #111
  48. Review: The naked nude from the Tate
  49. QUT discrimination case exposes Human Rights Commission failings
  50. Corruption looks different in China
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