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China's 6.9% GDP growth rate is not the hard landing feared - and Australia can benefit

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imageMore than one million Chinese tourists arrived in Australia last year and data suggests this could grow.AAP/Dean Lewins

After a rocky few weeks for Australian financial markets, China’s latest economic data release comes as a relief.

GDP was up 6.9% in 2015, right in line with survey expectations. Any talk about this being the slowest pace of...

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Irrational, man? Or a Kantian?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageIs Woody Allen an Irrational Man? Maybe not. Woody Allen at the Cannes screening of Irrational Man (2015) with cast members Emma Stone and Parker Posey. Benoit Tessier/Reuters

With Irrational Man (2015), there is no doubt about it, Woody Allen has done it again.

Just what “it” is, however, is less immediately clear.

I confess to taking an...

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Social media response to Islamic State must be more agile: Turnbull

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imageMalcolm Turnbull gave a speech to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington that focused on global security and trade. Brad Hunter/PMO

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for the campaign against Islamic State (IS) to considerably improve its use of social media, declaring “the cybersphere demands reactions as...

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