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Ideas for Australia: Australia boosts defences, but must pick its fights carefully in a time of tensions and uncertainties

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageThe adjustment in Australia’s defence spending to 1.9% to 2% of GDP is reasonable.AAP/Tracey Nearmy

The Conversation has asked 20 academics to examine the big ideas facing Australia for the 2016 federal election and beyond. The 20-piece series will examine, among others, the state of democracy, health, education, environment, equality,...

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Friday essay: on telling the stories of characters with Down syndrome

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageSarah Kanake and her brother Charlie.Author supplied.

In 2014 I was asked, by my then university, to present in a jovial end of year debate. My partner, brother and a few of my close friends came to watch. The auditorium was packed. There were university bigwigs on both teams. I was pretty nervous. It went well, although many of the debaters...

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  1. How half our brain keeps watch when we sleep in unfamiliar places
  2. Budget explainer: the structural deficit and what it means
  3. Kitchen Science: bacteria and fungi are your foody friends
  4. Aboriginal – Māori: how Indigenous health suffers on both sides of the ditch
  5. Explainer: what is Lyme disease and does it exist in Australia?
  6. Individuals not the priority in the Cyber Security Strategy
  7. Climate justice and its role in the Paris Agreement
  8. Bread like chaff and putrid rations: how WW1 troops obsessed over food
  9. The Cyber Security Strategy is only a small step in the right direction
  10. Where do record rental prices leave low-income earners?
  11. Stronger role for ombudsman is the key to protecting bank customers
  12. How should Indonesia resolve atrocities of the 1965-66 anti-communist purge?
  13. It is a great deal easier to eviscerate an arts sector than it is to build one up
  14. Building cool cities for a hot future
  15. How to pick Australia's health and medical research priorities
  16. Government backflip on ASIC could be too little too late
  17. Proposed crime prevention orders in NSW go a step too far in restricting offenders
  18. Trump, Clinton have emphatic wins in New York
  19. The real cost of Telstra's backflip on marriage equality
  20. Real journalists report the news – they don’t make it
  21. The state of the union(s): how a perfect storm weakened the workers' voices
  22. Ideas for Australia: Welfare reform needs to be about improving well-being, not punishing the poor
  23. Ideas for Australia: Closing the gap is proving hard, but we can do better by working developmentally
  24. Signing the Paris Climate Agreement is easy – what comes next for Australia will be hard
  25. Limits to growth: policies to steer the economy away from disaster
  26. 'Supp'd full with horrors': 400 years of Shakespearean supernaturalism
  27. Black lung's back? How we became complacent with coal miners' pneumoconiosis
  28. How the deficit obsession is eroding the budget's usefulness
  29. Split-second decisions with little praise: so what does it take to ref a game of NRL
  30. Turnbull warns of growing cyber aggression
  31. Depp, Heard, Joyce – The Future of Cinema and Its Critique
  32. Why the 60 Minutes shambles is unlikely to be a one-off incident
  33. Turnbull should help the states switch stamp duty for land tax
  34. Hidden housemates: when possums go bump in the night
  35. How might Big Tobacco react to a rise in cigarette excise?
  36. Morrison warns banks not to pass on new 'user-pays' impost to finance ASIC reform
  37. Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
  38. Weekly Dose: St John's Wort, the flower that can treat depression
  39. Politics podcast: Sarah Ferguson on The Killing Season uncut
  40. Beyond the icon: despite a construction boom, Australian skyscraper design needs to evolve
  41. Wood's decision to keep all her prize money reflects the values of the Stella
  42. Economists should step out of their bubble more often
  43. Big business doesn't want to talk about it, but SMEs lose from a company tax cut
  44. Government must boost attendance rates in early education
  45. Ideas for Australia: bipartisanship on immigration does little to counter racism, suspicion and division
  46. Ideas for Australia: City v4.0, a new model of urban growth and governance for Australia
  47. Palm oil politics impede sustainability in Southeast Asia
  48. In remembering Anzac Day, what do we forget?
  49. Exercise can improve cancer recovery and reduce health-care costs
  50. Budget explainer: commodity prices and the federal budget
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