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Raising chisel to stone, and making art

  • Written by Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
imageJoel Ormsby/flickr, CC BY-NC

The first Australian National Playwrights Centre (ANPC) was founded in 1973 – the age of bongs, thongs and social wrongs. Australian drama was by then well into its Biggest Renaissance Ever. The Pram Factory and Nimrod Theatre had been going for three years, La Mama for five. Whitlam had doubled the arts budget...

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One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century

  • Written by David McInnis, Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, University of Melbourne
image Ned, played by Johnny Carr and Mortimer (Marco Chiappi) in Edward II.Pia Johnson

While the rest of the world is marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre is turning to Shakespeare’s Other: the bad boy of Elizabethan drama, Christopher Marlowe.

Marlowe’s plays are as...

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Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it

  • Written by Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
imageReuters/Ruben Sprich

Unless they start giving Olympic gongs for curmudgeonly whinging, I don’t think I’m in the running “to medal”, as we apparently say these days. I realise I should be feeling a surge of patriotic pride and enthusiasm – especially as each medal is likely to cost the long-suffering taxpayer about A$9...

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Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?

  • Written by Zareh Ghazarian, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
imageLike the proverbial phoenix, One Nation has again risen in Australian politics.AAP/Dan Peled

The 2016 federal election has finally come to an end, with the Australian Electoral Commission declaring who will sit in the next Senate. The results suggest the Turnbull government will have to master the art of negotiation if it is to implement its...

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  1. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  2. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016
  3. Pay doctors to keep patients healthy rather than just for treating illness
  4. Friday essay: why a building and its rooms should have a human character
  5. Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
  6. How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman
  7. Should monopoly businesses have an obligation to create competition?
  8. Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go
  9. Bitcoin users largely shrug off latest $69 m Bitcoin exchange heist
  10. Grattan on Friday: Twenty years on, the Perils of Pauline haunt another Liberal leader
  11. Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
  12. Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
  13. St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
  14. State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
  15. Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
  16. Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others
  17. Ethics and writing
  18. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  19. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  20. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
  21. Should students pay different fees for university courses?
  22. Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
  23. Games and gambling: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
  24. WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
  25. Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised
  26. What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?
  27. Olympic medal forecasting: it's easier to predict results than you might think
  28. A competitive superannuation system: will efficiency gains follow?
  29. Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans
  30. The solution to Australia's gas crisis is not more gas
  31. Baz’s Bronx: Get Down or Let Down?
  32. Rethinking youth justice: there are alternatives to juvenile detention
  33. There's work (and life) outside of universities for PhD graduates
  34. Reimagining NSW: tackling education inequality with early intervention and better research
  35. Future teachers improving in literacy and numeracy: Birmingham
  36. How old is too old for a safe pregnancy?
  37. Former UK foreign secretary says Rudd was 'qualified' to be UN candidate
  38. Weekly Dose: sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
  39. NAPLAN results don't tell the full story behind Australia's lack of education progress
  40. Zika, or dengue and Chikungunya: what should you be worried about at the Rio Olympics?
  41. Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut
  42. PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency
  43. The traditionalists are restless, so why don't they have a party of their own in Australia?
  44. Mobile payments and tap and go might not mean the end for tellers
  45. Making waves: the tsunami risk in Australia
  46. Amnesty-Human Rights Watch investigation reports medical neglect and assaults on Nauru
  47. Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant
  48. Why executions in Indonesia must stop
  49. Jihad Selfie: listening to 'the other side' in documentary film
  50. Ghost-hunting: will the census reveal the true scale of homelessness in Australia?

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