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Death, beauty and poetry come together in Ancient Rain

  • Written by Christopher Wallace-Crabbe, Honorary Professor, Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
imagePaul Kelly, Camille O’Sullivan and Feargal Murray marry poetry and music in a compelling performance as part of the Melbourne Festival.Sarah Walker

This new concert, or you might say themed performance, opened at the Melbourne Art Centre on Wednesday evening. It gave the big audience lots of pleasure, with occasional puzzlement.

Paul Kelly is...

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Can Australia stop interest rates from approaching zero? Only with a big shift in policy

  • Written by Reuben Finighan, Senior Research Officer at The Melbourne Institute and Fellow of the ARC Life Course Centre of Excellence, University of Melbourne

Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison recently suggested the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) avoid cutting interest rates below the current 1.5%. The Turnbull government’s “fiscal consolidation”, he said, was more important for stimulating the economy.

This is big talk, and to be anything close to credible it needs to be backed up...

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The new Australia Council Board has a chance to be better than the last

  • Written by Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
imageA changing of the guard...will it make a difference?Shutterstock

The organisation Senator George Brandis described as having an “iron wall” around it, is refreshing its sentinels. This week’s announcement of four new appointments to the Australia Council Board represents a change of focus from last year when, you may recall, the...

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Trump and tram reactions show social media's complex role in responding to sexual harassment

  • Written by Bianca Fileborn, Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
imageIntrusions from unknown men in public space form a fundamental factor in how women experience their bodies and live their freedom.shutterstock

In the past week, social media has been used in two high-profile cases to powerfully speak out about experiences of sexual violence.

After witnessing and intervening in the prolonged harassment of three other...

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  1. More shark nets for NSW: why haven't we learned from WA's cull?
  2. Scientists have found how to make people hallucinate, and how to measure what they see
  3. VET student loan changes will help gain back control of the sector
  4. Why the world needs more resilience-thinking to stem escalating crises
  5. Race to the White House – the vicious debate, the future of the GOP, and Clinton's emails
  6. No, enjoying a gin and tonic doesn't mean you're a psychopath
  7. Sad music and depression: does it help?
  8. Seaweed could hold the key to cutting methane emissions from cow burps
  9. How I discovered one of the greatest wildlife gatherings on Earth in far-north Queensland
  10. Gut instinct: how the way you're born and fed affect your immune system
  11. The US election doesn't just feed pop culture – it is pop culture
  12. I'm right, you're wrong, and here's a link to prove it: how social media shapes public debate
  13. Former solicitor-general lashes George Brandis over direction
  14. Sugar tax is not nanny state, it's sound public policy
  15. Australia is vulnerable to cyber threats, so what can we do about it?
  16. ARIAs still matter to artists, but what do they say about us?
  17. Why a scorecard of quality in the arts is a very bad idea
  18. If we were like mice we could live to 400 – but we're not, so we don't
  19. Weekly Dose: aspirin, the pain and fever reliever that prevents heart attacks, strokes and maybe cancer
  20. After Trump 2016, will liberals listen? (The passion of Thomas Frank)
  21. Facebook wants to be in your workplace, but you'll probably find trolls there too
  22. UK experience of domestic violence disclosure schemes is a cautionary tale for Australia
  23. New life insurance code riddled with loopholes
  24. Evangelical politics: the rise and fall of Mike Baird
  25. Social media for tracking disease outbreaks – fad or way of the future?
  26. The world's vanishing wild places are vital for saving species
  27. US election: what are super PACs, and what role does money play in the race?
  28. University changes to academic contracts are threatening freedom of speech
  29. Business Briefing: why the future is workless
  30. How migrant workers are critical to the future of Australia's agricultural industry
  31. Speaking with: Alanna Kamp about the erasure of Chinese-Australian women from our history books
  32. Peering into the future: does science require predictions?
  33. What the consistency of your poo says about your health
  34. Kintsugi and the art of ceramic maintenance
  35. Explainer: what is contract theory and why it deserved a Nobel Prize
  36. Samsung pulls the pin on the Galaxy Note 7 but will unlikely suffer permanent damage
  37. Turnbull is trussed up, unable to deliver either marriage plebiscite or parliamentary outcome
  38. Labor maintains 52-48 lead in Newspoll
  39. New South Wales overturns greyhound ban: a win for the industry, but a massive loss for the dogs
  40. Buyouts mean the future of Australian video-on-demand is hard to picture
  41. Let's address the perfect storm of factors leading to obesity in disadvantaged children
  42. Hurricane Matthew is just the latest unnatural disaster to strike Haiti
  43. How we get sucked in by junk food specials in supermarkets
  44. Turnbull dodges on what happens after marriage plebiscite bill is defeated
  45. Australia's car industry ignored the elephant in the room: carbon emissions
  46. With the plebiscite set to be blocked, who will leave a legacy of marriage equality?
  47. Data surveillance is all around us, and it's going to change our behaviour
  48. Healthy guts are swarming with bugs, so what do they do?
  49. Gut feeling: how your microbiota affects your mood, sleep and stress levels
  50. Debate reveals Trump's dated, dangerous masculinity – and how he just doesn't get it
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