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Hustings and human speech (failings) in a 24/7 campaign

  • Written by Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
imageAAP/Mick Tsikas

Co-authored with Howard Manns

Lengthy elections grow tedious for everyone and, in the 24/7 media cycle, nerves and performances fray.

Yet how many of us would really stand up to such intense and prolonged linguistic scrutiny, especially in this all-digital-all-the-time age of social media and news services that never sleep?

We thought...

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Restricting gay men from donating blood is discriminatory

  • Written by Jennifer Power, Research Fellow at Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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The Orlando massacre has again raised the question of whether it is ethical or sensible to restrict gay and bisexual men from donating blood.

Some of the most moving images coming out of Orlando this week are those of thousands of people queuing to donate blood.

In both the United States and Australia, men are only able to donate blood if they have...

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Explainer: the importance of William Barak’s Ceremony

  • Written by Nikita Vanderbyl, Doctoral candidate in Art History, La Trobe University
imageWilliam Barak's Ceremony has sold at auction to an unknown buyer. Supplied

A painting by Wurundjeri artist William Barak was auctioned last week for A$512,400. This set a new record for the 19th century artist, diplomat and leader. (His work had previously reached A$504,000 at auction in 2009).

The auction by Bonhams of the artwork called Ceremony...

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Is there life through the looking-glass? The riddle of life's single-handedness

  • Written by Rowena Ball, Associate professor, Australian National University
imageThe molecules that make up life may have arrived from space, and many are chiral.NASA / Jenny Mottar

Try shaking a colleague’s left hand with your right hand. It just doesn’t work, does it? Your right palm and her or his left palm cannot mesh comfortably because hands are chiral objects, having non-superimposable mirror images.

All...

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  1. NBN Co says it was protecting staff morale in caretaker breach
  2. State of the states: Australian Capital Territory voters face two elections in 2016
  3. Reducing bankruptcy to 12 months ignores realities of insolvency
  4. Weekly Dose: methadone, the most effective treatment for heroin dependence
  5. Islamic State is quick to claim Orlando shooting, but media should be careful in reporting those claims
  6. Political tracts: the good, the bad and the badly written
  7. 22 ways to cut your energy bills (before spending on solar panels)
  8. Me Before You: life, disability and 'inspiration porn'
  9. Our cities will stop working without a decent national housing policy
  10. State of the states: Seismic shocks could shift Victoria the Coalition's way
  11. Did we used to have two sleeps rather than one? Should we again?
  12. Why we need to support Aboriginal women’s choice to give birth on country
  13. From insider lobbying to grassroots campaigns; the Australian Conservation Foundation's strategy shift is paying off
  14. India is hedging its bets on coal to bring power to the people
  15. Business Briefing: what breeds terrorism?
  16. How the two major parties shape up on debate around student loan reform
  17. Explainer: How to find an exoplanet (part 2)
  18. Apple emphasises social responsibility and new features but is superficial on both
  19. Me Before You Before Fiction
  20. Treaty talk is only one problem for Indigenous recognition referendum
  21. #ausvotes 2016: some early impressions
  22. Microsoft sees integration opportunities in LinkedIn purchase – but will users care?
  23. Is nicotine really as safe as e-cigarette supporters make out?
  24. The off-topic Conversation #97
  25. Trollied: serves you (just) right
  26. Climate change makes a comeback – with the help of social media
  27. Labor's NBN plan shows it listened to critics of the current broadband rollout
  28. On asylum seekers, our history keeps repeating itself
  29. Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
  30. Dark Mofo and the affective power of a creative storm
  31. The Paris climate agreement needs coordinated carbon prices to be successful
  32. Queensland's 50-year vision for its southeast must take heed of all region's future needs
  33. Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?
  34. State of the states: 19 reasons why Turnbull and Shorten keep flying to Queensland
  35. State of the states: New South Wales and the issues resounding in bellwether seats
  36. New style lobbying: how GetUp! channels Australians' voices into politics
  37. Australian Christian Lobby: the rise and fall of the religious right
  38. Paralysed with fear: why do we freeze when frightened?
  39. Is coal the only way to deal with energy poverty in developing economies?
  40. Woolworths and Coles should heed simplicity lesson from Aldi
  41. Emancipated wenches in gaudy jewellery: the liberating bling of the goldfields
  42. How citizen scientists discovered a giant cluster of galaxies
  43. OECD figures are not what they seem in higher education
  44. The Indi Project: Soft voters say Turnbull better leader to handle a Trump presidency
  45. How do Labor and the Coalition differ on NBN policy?
  46. Full response from a Labor spokesman
  47. Dopey and grumpy: Maria Sharapova and WADA
  48. Health Check: how much salt is OK to eat?
  49. Election explainer: how are lower house votes counted? And what is 'the swing'?
  50. Business is waking up to the idea of deep learning
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