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What do Mad Max's six Oscars mean for the Australian film industry?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageMark Mangini and David White react after winning Best Sound Editing for "Mad Max Fury Road", backstage during the 88th Academy Awards .Mike Blake/Reuters

The career of Dr George Miller reminds me of that of Charles Chauvel, one of the greatest showmen of the Australian cinema. Both men – though separated by many decades – have...

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FactCheck: has Australian government spending as a share of GDP been at GFC levels since last election?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Since the election, this government has had spending as a percentage of GDP at GFC levels. -– Shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, media release, February 17, 2016.

During an election year, the focus is once again on the federal budget deficit. According to the most recent estimate in the government’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook...

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Fifield wants media ownership changes passed before the election

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

The government wants to push the biggest overhaul of Australia’s media laws in a generation through parliament before the election, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says.

Fifield on Tuesday unveiled the much-anticipated plan to substantially deregulate the media market – which the government is selling as a “microeconomic...

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  3. Fraudsters change tactics as a crackdown cuts some losses due to online scams
  4. We wouldn't be mourning lost languages if we embraced multilingualism
  5. New defence trade controls threaten academic freedom and the economy
  6. Rethinking 'small' business could drive a real ideas boom
  7. To believe or not to believe: child witnesses and the sex abuse royal commission
  8. True blood: cutting through confusion about pathology cuts
  9. Poor nutrition can put children at higher risk of mental illness
  10. How child support can better help single mothers
  11. Do over-the-counter weight-loss supplements work?
  12. The world's biggest source of freshwater is beneath your feet
  13. The Guardian's costly gap between traffic and profits
  14. Gender equality in the workplace can prevent violence against women
  15. Hanson-Young in preselection battle ahead of possible double dissolution
  16. Why we 'hate' certain birds, and why their behaviour might be our fault
  17. FactCheck: does Australia spend $1.5 billion a year on drug law enforcement, with 70% due to cannabis?
  18. Health Check: should children and adolescents lift weights?
  19. Blackface and blaming Indigenous health woes on culture are two sides of the same racist coin
  20. Your local train station can predict health and death
  21. Automation won't destroy jobs, but it will change them
  22. Powerful supermarkets push the cost of food waste onto suppliers, charities
  23. Have faith: civil religion can counter the lure of eternal life for jihadists
  24. The off-topic Conversation #82
  25. Sizing up the future for Australia's video game industry
  26. Diversity and local voices at risk as media owners aim to become emperors of everything
  27. Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris
  28. Jobs don't need to be lousy
  29. Police drones: can we trust the eyes in the skies?
  30. Vale Shakespeare, the (not always) patriarchal Bard
  31. Marketers claim 5G will support the Internet of Things but is that really a thing?
  32. John Howard complicates Malcolm Turnbull's tax problems
  33. Former Australian Electoral Commission official says Senate voting change is 'incoherent'
  34. Is that muesli bar you put in your child's lunchbox actually healthy?
  35. Will Iñárritu win his fourth Oscar for The Revenant? Do you care?
  36. Clinton's brutal win in South Carolina, and how delegates are allocated
  37. Getting bike laws right means balancing rights of cyclists and motorists
  38. Oscars culture reveals our fascinating relationships with spectacle, fantasy and money
  39. A fox guarding the henhouse? Andrew Nikolic takes the reins of parliament's security committee
  40. Research Check: does eating chocolate improve your brain function?
  41. Identification of animals and plants is an essential skill set
  42. What would effective, fair and just drug-driving laws look like?
  43. Brough to leave parliament at the election
  44. Fossil fuel growth centre harks back to old ideas about climate costs
  45. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the defence white paper
  46. Woolworths counts the cost of Masters blunder, with food business under fire
  47. Treasure Trove: why defunding Trove leaves Australia poorer
  48. Hacking the terror suspect's iPhone: what the FBI can do now Apple says 'no'
  49. End of an era in regional publishing as APN puts papers up for sale
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