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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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