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Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in 'human zoos' are chilling

  • Written by: Katherine Johnson, Lecturer (Casual) in Creative Writing, University of Tasmania
Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in 'human zoos' are chillingBonangera and Jurano were depicted performing at the Dresden Zoo in an 1882 illustration. Illustrirte Zeitung

In a large storage room in the basement of the former Musée d'Histoires Naturelles in Lyon, France, stands a rare relic of the colonial era: a full-body plaster cast of an 18-year-old Badtjala man from K’gari (Fraser Island),...

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Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world war

  • Written by: Bart Ziino, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world warSoldiers in Anzac Cove. The war had driven Australians apart in the demands it made upon the people.State Library of Victoria , CC BY

Historians have long been engaged in a fractious, sometimes spiteful, debate about the legacies of the first world war. This is especially so because the politics of the war continue to resonate in our own...

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Smart tech systems cut congestion for a fraction of what new roads cost

  • Written by: Hussein Dia, Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
Smart tech systems cut congestion for a fraction of what new roads costSmart transport solutions make better use of existing infrastructure and reduce the need to build expensive new roads. AdobeStock

The new transport projects governments are constantly announcing are expensive. In the recent New South Wales and Victorian elections, the returned state governments’ transport infrastructure promises added up to...

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Another COAG meeting, another limp swing at the waste problem

  • Written by: Trevor Thornton, Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University

A meeting on Friday between state and federal environment ministers to discuss Australia’s recycling and waste crisis has been disappointingly inconclusive.

Some targets were set for banning the export of various used materials: glass exports will be banned by July 2020 and mixed plastics by July 2021. New focus was put on managing other...

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  2. When the coroner looked at how to cut drug deaths at music festivals, the evidence won. But what happens next?
  3. Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for 'difficult' students?
  4. Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?
  5. does monetary policy work any more?
  6. Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home
  7. Pass the popcorn - Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies
  8. How NZ's colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka
  9. Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortem
  10. Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke
  11. the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court
  12. Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answer
  13. Remote Indigenous Australia's ecological economies give us something to build on
  14. a short, sharp history of the bayonet
  15. Labor's post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done
  16. Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home
  17. Queensland Health's history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be
  18. Australia's drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point
  19. Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist
  20. Labor's election post-mortem warns against 'becoming a grievance-based organisation'
  21. This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness
  22. Abusing a robot won't hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person
  23. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west
  24. Australian unis' financial strife in three charts
  25. Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying
  26. men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women
  27. How to deal with smartphone stress
  28. Government sets up concessional loan scheme for drought-hit small businesses
  29. Trump could win again despite losing popular vote, as Biden retakes lead in Democratic polls
  30. Tweaking prescribing rules won't fix chemical restraint in aged care
  31. I teach and play gospel music and I think Kanye's Jesus is King is a remarkable gospel album
  32. Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there's a way to avoid it
  33. Churches have legal rights in Australia. Why not sacred trees?
  34. Australia is spending less on diplomacy than ever before – and its influence is suffering as a result
  35. the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi's hidden cameras
  36. climate change isn't just about temperature
  37. How do solar panels work?
  38. why Mars is cold despite an atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide
  39. Australia wants to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Equal pay for the Matildas will help our chances
  40. Should you worry about Boeing 737s? Only if you run an airline
  41. India's not joining the latest free-trade deal which limits Australia's market access
  42. just 15 years' worth of emissions will raise sea level in 2300
  43. Dogs really can chase away loneliness
  44. Running may help you live longer but more isn't necessarily better
  45. Recycling plastic bottles is good, but reusing them is better
  46. Olivia Colman shines as an older, frumpier Elizabeth
  47. Scott Morrison wants to outlaw boycott campaigns. But the mining industry doesn't need protection
  48. What is ‘ecological economics’ and why do we need to talk about it?
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