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Harder, faster, louder: challenging sexism in the music industry

  • Written by: Catherine Strong, Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
imageAfter the likes of Joan Jett, Janis Joplin and Debbie Harry, why are women in rock still marginalised?Shutterstock

Triple J’s Hack program recently put together a snapshot of female participation in the Australian music industry. It showed a predictable picture of women’s continued marginalisation in all roles, whether as performers,...

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Cold and calculating: what the two different types of ice do to sea levels

  • Written by: Matt King, Professor, Surveying & Spatial Sciences, School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania

It was back in 250ʙⅽ when Archimedes reportedly stepped into his bathtub and had the world’s first Eureka moment – realising that putting himself in the water made its level rise.

More than two millennia later, the comments sections of news stories still routinely reveal confusion about how this same thing happens when polar...

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South China Sea: China waives the rules

  • Written by: Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
imageEPA/Ritchie B. Tongo

China has no legal basis for its territorial claims in the South China Sea. The ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, an arm of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), was widely predicted, but was a metaphorical bombshell, nevertheless. The worry now is that it could presage the...

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Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce injured by sheep

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The timing of Barnaby Joyce’s talks with Malcolm Turnbull to discuss the new Coalition ministry was up in the air on Tuesday night after the Nationals leader suddenly returned to his Tamworth home to nurse an injured knee.

Joyce was butted by one of his dorpers while handling sheep in a race at his property on Monday. He was in acute pain on...

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  2. New dwarf planet in the outer solar system
  3. Explainer: how the paperless property market works
  4. A snapshot of the challenges facing the new Turnbull government
  5. Some places should be off limits for games such as Pokémon GO
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  7. The off-topic Conversation #101
  8. Just how representative are the houses of parliament of how Australians vote?
  9. India soon to have have largest tertiary-age population in the world
  10. Coalition's lost ground on women MPs shows we need to tackle new gender biases
  11. Turnbull's economic plan will divide both the Senate and business lobby groups
  12. The policy agenda: what the government should do now
  13. Time to learn the many lessons from a long campaign
  14. What the government should do now: economic growth
  15. Why do some galaxies stop making new stars?
  16. Health funding: something else for Turnbull to worry about
  17. Greyhound ban shows need for joined-up thinking across all animal industries
  18. Explainer: the terror behind Keep Calm And Carry On
  19. Nationals' ministerial claims complicate Turnbull's reshuffle
  20. The Pokémon GO craze sees gamers hit the streets but it comes with a warning
  21. Reading three great southern lands: from the outback to the pampa and the karoo
  22. Health Check: which fruits are healthier, and in what form?
  23. It’s a fallacy that all Australians have access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene
  24. If it needs it, Australia can draw on significant experience of minority government
  25. Three reasons free trade has become a political football
  26. Explainer: who are the independents and minor parties in the lower house?
  27. Beating heart of the Crab Nebula
  28. Greening cities makes for safer neighbourhoods
  29. Coalition scrapes through but Turnbull needs to alter course
  30. Labor has cause for hope – and some concern – in this election loss
  31. Perfect storm of events could trigger the next financial crisis
  32. How to keep more girls in IT at schools if we're to close the gender gap
  33. Understanding the NDIS: the challenges disability service providers face in a market-based system
  34. Australian GPs are offered guidelines not relevant to their patients, and they often ignore them
  35. How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash
  36. More parents are choosing to home school their children – why?
  37. Turnbull should not be spooked by Liberal conservatives
  38. Election 2016: what will a re-elected Coalition government mean for key policy areas?
  39. State of the states: what were the issues and seats that mattered in Australia's state and territories?
  40. Remind me again, what did the Coalition promise during the election campaign?
  41. Turnbull celebrates victory after Shorten concedes defeat
  42. Coalition very likely to win majority after taking lead in 76 seats
  43. Politics podcast: Wayne Swan on Labor's next moves
  44. What other industries can learn from the failures of greyhound racing
  45. Patchwork, ironic, serious and kitsch: the best of the Archibald finalists
  46. The drugs made me do it: can prescription side-effects be an excuse for crime?
  47. Turnbull wins more crossbench support as government's numbers still to be finalised
  48. How Australia can capitalise on Chinese tourism
  49. Election 2016 reveals the end of the rusted-on voter and the death of the two-party system
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