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Robert Manne: How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers

  • Written by: Robert Manne, Personal Chair in Politics, La Trobe University
imageA relative of asylum seekers being held on Nauru cries at a press conference to launch an Amnesty International report.Reuters/David Gray

This is an edited extract of a talk delivered to the Integrity 20 Conference at Griffith University on October 25, 2016


If you had been told 30 years ago that Australia would create the least asylum seeker...

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Looking Back at Italy 1992: Internet Politics comes of age

  • Written by: Giovanni Navarria, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), University of Sydney
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This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.

This essay is the fourth of a five-part series dedicated to Italy’s recent political history and how much...

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Wrapping up the fantasy - how will Game of Thrones end?

  • Written by: Carolyne Larrington, Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English, University of Oxford
imageA comic ending - in the sense of Shakespeare's comedies - would see Jon Snow marry Daenerys and live happily ever after.©2016 Home Box Office, Inc.

The hugely popular TV show Game of Thrones has two seasons to go; already the showrunners, David Benioff and Daniel Weiss, are speeding towards the endgame. But providing a satisfactory conclusion...

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What causes mind blanks during exams?

  • Written by: Jared Cooney Horvath, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Melbourne
imageAs exam season rolls around, many students are wondering what causes the dreaded mind blank.from www.shutterstock.com

In our five-part series, Making Sense of Exams, we’ll discuss the purpose of exams, whether they can be done online, overcoming exam anxiety, and effective revision techniques.


It’s a pattern many of us have likely...

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