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Love in the time of racism: 'Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms' explores the politics of romance

  • Written by: Imogen Mathew, PhD Candidate, Australian Literature, Australian National University
imageAnita Heiss' latest work presents unsettling questions for the non-aboriginal reader.babasteve/flickr, CC BY-NC

Popular media forms, from Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poetry to the dystopian sci-fi television series Cleverman, have often been used by Aboriginal Australians to inform and entertain. The latest example of this type of political and...

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What is soft power? Hint: it's not footing Sam Dastyari's bills

  • Written by: Damien Spry, Honorary Associate, University of Sydney
imageUnderstanding how China operates on an international level means understanding how it exercises soft power.Shutterstock

Revelations that Labor senator Sam Dastyari benefited from the largesse of Chinese benefactors have prompted several Australian journalists to draw attention to the problematic prospect of Chinese influence in Australia.

Reports con...

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Weekly Dose: penicillin, the mould that saves millions of lives

  • Written by: Sergio Diez Alvarez, Director Of Medicine, The Maitland and Kurri Kurri Hospital, University of Newcastle
imageA serendipitous discovery that saves millions of lives and garnered two Nobel prizes. from www.shutterstock.com.au

In developed countries, infectious diseases accounted for most deaths until very recently. And in developing countries, infectious diseases remain the cause of death for a large percentage of the population.

It is in this setting that...

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We really must talk about gas

  • Written by: Mike Sandiford, Chair of Geology & Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne

The European Commission’s latest Quarterly report on electricity markets makes sobering reading down under.

Over the last year wholesale electricity prices have been falling just about everywhere across the developed world except here in Australia, where they are skyrocketing.

imageFigure 32 from European Commission’s Quarterly report on...

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  1. Dastyari resigns, but will Labor's proposals fix the political donations system?
  2. Full response from the Productivity Commission
  3. FactCheck: has education spending gone up while student achievement has stalled or declined?
  4. How can we fix Australia's Indonesia anxiety?
  5. Brandis diaries case shows how Freedom of Information has been deliberately neglected
  6. A brief history of the Paralympic Games: from post-WWII rehabilitation to mega sport event
  7. Pacific pariah: how Australia’s love of coal has left it out in the diplomatic cold
  8. Company results wrap: energy companies are facing disruption
  9. By 2030, 'no Australian child will be living in poverty' – why can't we promise that?
  10. Nicotine for vaping should be legalised in Australia: 40 international and Australian experts
  11. Speaking with: Juan Francisco Salazar about colonising Antarctica and Mars
  12. To a modern audience, Othello is simply another story of domestic abuse
  13. Both statins and a Mediterranean-style diet can help ward off heart disease and stroke
  14. You can't eat with us! When the working class meet high-end cooking shows
  15. Government review supports Australia's marine reserves – now it’s time to move on
  16. Explainer: how the Paralympics classification system keeps things fair
  17. Australia must heed the lessons of ‘hybrid warfare’ to avoid falling behind on the battlefield
  18. How happiness improves business results
  19. Please can we give up on complementary, alternative and 'integrative therapies' now?
  20. Apple and Ireland are betting on 'Nation Inc' and a world of shareholder citizens
  21. China’s G20 summit was big on show, but short on substance
  22. Company results wrap: news publishers are transforming, but into what?
  23. Sydney property market spreads price shocks to other capital cities
  24. NT royal commission is the cost of failing to meet international standards on torture
  25. Vitamin D may protect against severe asthma attacks and hospitalisation
  26. Improving teaching in rural schools - we need to stop borrowing approaches from overseas
  27. The ethical and cultural case for culling Australia's mountain horses
  28. With energy, ideas and cheek to spare, Richard Neville was the boy of OZ
  29. Extinction alert: saving the world from a deadly asteroid impact
  30. Company results wrap: retail sales flat, but some retailers buck the trend
  31. FactCheck Q A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia?
  32. Absurdist, poignant slapstick – plus a brass band – in En Avant, Marche!
  33. US-China ratification of Paris Agreement ramps up the pressure on Australia
  34. Can, or should, we save ARENA?
  35. Brazil ousting demonstrates the new coup rocking Latin America
  36. Health Check: is it bad to regularly sleep wearing earplugs?
  37. Protected areas are helping save our favourite animals – but let's not forget the others
  38. If the TPP dies, Australia has other game changing trade options
  39. Paranoid politics: how does Donald Trump get away with it?
  40. Habitat III: the biggest conference you’ve probably never heard of
  41. New Grattan research shows what is at stake in the superannuation debate
  42. Vital Signs: all eyes on the central bankers
  43. Explainer: what's meningococcal meningitis and what are the signs?
  44. Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways – we need to stop using unproven, harmful methods
  45. The Climate Change Authority report: a dissenting view
  46. Careful surveillance and pet wearables: at home with animals
  47. Why old theories on Indigenous counting just won't go away
  48. Will airlines ban Samsung phones after their recall for exploding batteries?
  49. Liberal Party 'internals' have a bad attack of acid stomach
  50. Victorian ReachTEL: Labor leads, but Andrews damaged by CFA dispute

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