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Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong

  • Written by: Kate Seear, Academic Director of Springvale Monash Legal Service & Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
imageEddie McGuire caused a furore by suggesting the drowning of prominent sports journalist Caroline Wilson.AAP/Tracey Nearmy

In March 2016, five female friends and I began The Outer Sanctum podcast, a weekly show where we discuss the big footy issues of the day. Through interviews we also aim to provide a platform for voices not usually heard in...

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Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck

  • Written by: Ted Snell, Winthrop Professor, Director Cultural Precinct, University of Western Australia
imageDegas beautifully captured women in private moments. Detail of Edgar Degas, Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck c. 1880–95, Musée D’Orsay, Paris

“I like to watch” said Peter Sellers' cinematic creation Chauncey Gardiner in the 1979 movie Being There. Like Chauncey, Edgar Degas also enjoyed watching,...

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Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?

  • Written by: Peter Collignon, Professor, infectious diseases and microbiology, Australian National University
imageMore people end up in hospital from cold than flu. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The “common cold” is common. Most of us will have at least one or two per year. Children get sick more often and very young children often get more than five colds per year.

Even though it’s so common there’s a lack of good research looking into...

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Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term

  • Written by: Benjamin T. Jones, ARC Research Fellow in the School of History, Australian National University
imageMalcolm Turnbull is facing many of the same obstacles as James Scullin but in a less extreme form.AAP/Lukas Coch

Come July 2, Bill Shorten and Labor are hoping they will party like it’s 1931. That was the last election when a first-term government was given its marching orders.

While there are certainly differences between Labor’s...

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  1. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
  2. The off-topic Conversation #98
  3. Coalition leads in ReachTEL, but not in other polls
  4. Election explainer: how does the Senate count work?
  5. To Elle and Back: Reviewing the reviewers
  6. What sort of Reserve Bank governor will Philip Lowe be?
  7. Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy
  8. The growing cost of internships could add to inequality
  9. A fanfare of failures: why celebrate Florence Foster Jenkins and Eddie the Eagle?
  10. Science or snake oil: is Garcinia cambogia the magic weight-loss pill it's hyped up to be?
  11. Catholic church starts small but is clearly thinking big on fossil fuel divestment
  12. UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
  13. Shorten seeks to keep alive hope of a Labor win
  14. Bill Shorten's campaign pitch: don't risk Medicare under the Liberals
  15. On track for the Rio Olympics? IAAF ban means Russian athletes may not compete
  16. In the world's biggest city, the past offers lessons for surviving the future
  17. Shorten plays Facebook game, telling people to hit Like
  18. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, May 2016
  19. A new normal, as Basslink finally resumes
  20. Cattle 'sledgehammering' in Vietnam raises yet more questions over live export
  21. From the Queen of Sheba to Jeffrey Smart: how art shaped Bruce Beresford
  22. The problem with reinforced concrete
  23. Spiny crayfish and their flatworm friends: an ancient partnership revealed
  24. Uncapping of university places achieved what it set out to do. So why is it dubbed a policy failure?
  25. Vital Signs: an election in Australia, a key poll in the UK, all lead to uncertainty
  26. Both parties to launch in western Sydney, the symbolic heartland of uncommitted but powerful voters
  27. Coffee won't give you cancer, unless it's very very hot, then it might
  28. Did snakes evolve from ancient sea serpents?
  29. Brexit: lessons and implications for Australia
  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the slow campaign
  31. Uncapping of university places has not failed disadvantaged students
  32. Budget transparency missing from the West's plan for Iraq
  33. State of the states: how local politics in the Northern Territory could muddy the federal vote
  34. 700,000 Palmer United Party votes up for grabs: who'll win them this time?
  35. How the Property Council is shaping the debate around negative gearing, taxes
  36. What evidence is there that internships secure employment?
  37. State of the states: why Labor's fortunes are on the rise in Western Australia
  38. Friday essay: The Qur’an, the Bible and homosexuality in Islam
  39. Personalised medicine has obvious benefits but has anyone thought about the issues?
  40. Infographic: The state of coal
  41. Will climate and emissions targets really curb China’s coal consumption? Only time will tell
  42. Apple iOS 10 v Google Android: which is leading the way?
  43. Grattan on Friday: If Labor loses, what happens to Bill Shorten?
  44. Protections for Australian cattle found wanting – yet again
  45. Just the facts, ma'am: a guide to The Conversation's FactCheck process
  46. From tomboys and butch dykes to anything goes: how women's image has evolved on the footy field
  47. Is this injectable tanning drug safe to use?
  48. Survey: more Australians want climate action now than before the carbon tax
  49. Is Labor’s plan to create ten Institutes of Higher Education a good idea?
  50. State of the states: a handful of votes could decide Tasmania's Liberal-held seats

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