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Trollied: serves you (just) right

  • Written by Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
imageJason Watkins and Jane Horrocks, as Gavin and Julie in Trollied, elevate anxiety to an art-form. Sky1

For the comic protagonist, the literary critic Northrop Frye once observed, life is something you get through. While tragic characters die in plangent splendour, and Marvel superheroes vanquish tech-spangled foes, the comic protagonist weaves...

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Climate change makes a comeback – with the help of social media

  • Written by David Holmes, Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
imageAAP/Lukas Coch

In what has been shaping up as the election that forgot climate change, there are signs emerging in the Coalition’s election campaign that it is starting to listen to polls, its own focus groups and social media chat on climate.

So far it is the Great Barrier Reef that has drawn out the biggest campaign fight on climate.

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Labor's NBN plan shows it listened to critics of the current broadband rollout

  • Written by Mark A Gregory, Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, RMIT University

Labor’s broadband plan includes few surprises and fulfils Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s commitment to responsibly increase the construction of fibre to the premises (FTTP). At the same time, it would ensure the completion of the National Broadband Network (NBN) is not delayed further.

It shifts the focus back to providing Australia...

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On asylum seekers, our history keeps repeating itself

  • Written by Jim Middleton, Vice Chancellor's Fellow, University of Melbourne
imageNo progress will be made on asylum policy until the major parties move to a positive bipartisanship.shutterstock

Immediately after Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court unexpectedly ruled in April that the Australian detention centre on Manus Island was in breach of human rights and ordered it closed, Bill Shorten met his leadership group.

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  1. Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
  2. Dark Mofo and the affective power of a creative storm
  3. The Paris climate agreement needs coordinated carbon prices to be successful
  4. Queensland's 50-year vision for its southeast must take heed of all region's future needs
  5. Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?
  6. State of the states: 19 reasons why Turnbull and Shorten keep flying to Queensland
  7. State of the states: New South Wales and the issues resounding in bellwether seats
  8. New style lobbying: how GetUp! channels Australians' voices into politics
  9. Australian Christian Lobby: the rise and fall of the religious right
  10. Paralysed with fear: why do we freeze when frightened?
  11. Is coal the only way to deal with energy poverty in developing economies?
  12. Woolworths and Coles should heed simplicity lesson from Aldi
  13. Emancipated wenches in gaudy jewellery: the liberating bling of the goldfields
  14. How citizen scientists discovered a giant cluster of galaxies
  15. OECD figures are not what they seem in higher education
  16. The Indi Project: Soft voters say Turnbull better leader to handle a Trump presidency
  17. How do Labor and the Coalition differ on NBN policy?
  18. Full response from a Labor spokesman
  19. Dopey and grumpy: Maria Sharapova and WADA
  20. Health Check: how much salt is OK to eat?
  21. Election explainer: how are lower house votes counted? And what is 'the swing'?
  22. Business is waking up to the idea of deep learning
  23. Why are so few professional sport coaches from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?
  24. Computers may be evolving but are they intelligent?
  25. Turnbull's election to lose
  26. Resettling refugees in Australia would not resume the people-smuggling trade
  27. Chemical messengers: how hormones change through menopause
  28. The hidden energy cost of smart homes
  29. Insider trading is greedy, not glamorous, and it hurts us all
  30. Venice Biennale: an exhausting, beautiful attempt to relinquish architecture
  31. Ancient asteroid impacts yield evidence for the nature of the early Earth
  32. Genes can have up to 80% influence on students' academic performance
  33. Labor would upgrade NBN to fibre-to-the-premises
  34. Xenophon threatens massive retaliation against any Lib-Lab deal against him
  35. ALP uses Bob Hawke to boost its campaigning on health
  36. Signals from the noise of urban innovation in the world's 'second-least-liveable' city
  37. Bill Shorten's savings package looks a little desperate
  38. Labor searches for savings amid family benefits reform
  39. Labor finds $16 billion more savings to put on the table
  40. White Bay rethink hinges on who looks out for the public interest in remaking Sydney
  41. Should we still be choosing fat-free over full-fat products?
  42. We know _why_ bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, but _how_ does this actually happen?
  43. The public should be concerned when academics must battle bureaucrats for academic freedom
  44. Removing social media hate speech within 24 hours sounds like a good idea, but...
  45. Election FactCheck: is it true no solely managed Commonwealth fishery is subject to overfishing?
  46. Cathedrals of light, cathedrals of ice, cathedrals of glass, cathedrals of bones
  47. It takes a village: law reform can't be the only response to online child abuse material
  48. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Nick Xenophon Team
  49. City sparrows came to Australia via India
  50. Is small business really the engine room of Australia's economy?

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