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the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot

  • Written by: Stuart Kells, Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspotChina's five-storey Tianjin Binhai Library occupies an area of 33,700 square metres with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves which can contain up to 1.2 million books.Roman Pilipey

Last year two Danish librarians – Christian Lauersen and Marie Eiriksson – founded Library Planet: a worldwide, crowdsourced, online library travel guide. According...

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Trees, the ancient Macedonians, and the world's first environmental disaster

  • Written by: Anthony Dosseto, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong

It’s a simple enough equation: good soil is the key to good food. And good soil starts with trees.

Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire that extended from Greece all the way to India. However, his ancestors’ fortune was a mixed bag. A new series of studies show the ancient Macedonians may have been struck by one of the earliest...

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Housing affordability has improved slightly, but people on lower incomes will continue to struggle

  • Written by: Steven Rowley, Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
Housing affordability has improved slightly, but people on lower incomes will continue to strugglePolicies focused on ownership do little to help lower-income households that are struggling to pay the rent.Iakov Filimonov/Shutterstock

The re-election of the Morrison government has delivered an Australian housing policy platform based on home ownership. The recently announced First Home Loan Deposit Scheme and the existing First Home Super Saver...

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Is it good for Labor, or Bill Shorten, for the former leader to stay in parliament?

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Is it good for Labor, or Bill Shorten, for the former leader to stay in parliament?Kristina Keneally has been announced as deputy Labor leader in the Senate. AAP/Lukas Coch

In his first excursion as leader, Anthony Albanese this week visited the Queensland electorate of Longman. This seat tells, in microcosm, the story of Labor’s success and failure, hopes and disappointment between 2016 and May 18 2019.

The ALP wrested...

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  1. Politics and religion collide in the Knesset as Netanyahu faces the fight of his political life
  2. how it hopes to improve people's lives
  3. Over-the-counter contraceptive pill could save the health system $96 million a year
  4. humanising a cold case victim – writing the life and brutal death of Mollie Dean
  5. Mental health wins record funding in New Zealand's first 'well-being budget'
  6. Ken Wyatt faces challenges – and opportunities – as minister for Indigenous Australians
  7. The behavioural economics of discounting, and why Kogan would profit from discount deception
  8. Carelessly linking crime to being homeless adds to the harmful stigma
  9. Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001
  10. Australians could have saved over $1 billon in fuel if car emissions standards were introduced 3 years ago
  11. Policies, not posturing, will help Albanese shake the 'left-wing' tag and restore faith in his party
  12. Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?
  13. the Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang
  14. Here's what needs to happen to get the NDIS back on track
  15. The government keeps talking about revamping VET – but is it actually doing it?
  16. we need to kickstart innovation in Australia
  17. After decades away, dengue returns to central Queensland
  18. Freak mud flows threaten our water supplies, and climate change is raising the risk
  19. Despite Japan's low crime rates, it's seen a number of mass stabbings in the past decade
  20. Why is it taking so long to achieve gender equality in parliament?
  21. A closer look at Scott Morrison's new ministry
  22. keeping peace with both China and the US
  23. Fewer Australians will have uni or TAFE skills if governments don't reform tertiary education
  24. Surgery rates are rising in over-85s but the decision to operate isn't always easy
  25. Why regional universities are at risk of going under
  26. Is China's social credit system coming to Australia?
  27. Why Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental destruction
  28. Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?
  29. Crisis? What crisis? A new prime minister in PNG might not signal meaningful change for its citizens
  30. More lighting alone does not create safer cities. Look at what research with young women tells us
  31. In Suzie Miller's Prima Facie, theatre finds a voice of reckoning on sexual assault and the law
  32. Rising seas threaten Australia's major airports – and it may be happening faster than we think
  33. how do sea creatures drink sea water and not get sick?
  34. the little patches that can make managing diabetes a whole lot easier
  35. 6,000 people have donated to The Conversation. If you value expert analysis, join them
  36. High cost means more than half of NZ's young adults don't access dental care
  37. Let's make it mandatory to teach respectful relationships in every Australian school
  38. Misreporting the science of lab-made organs is unethical, even dangerous
  39. Is this a housing system that cares? That's the question for Australians and their new government
  40. After his 'miracle' election, will Scott Morrison feel pressure from Christian leaders on religious freedom?
  41. China succeeds in greening its economy not because, but in spite of, its authoritarian government
  42. It's time we moved the goalposts on Indigenous policies, so they reflect Indigenous values
  43. Lights in the sky from Elon Musk's new satellite network have stargazers worried
  44. art comes alive in a modern twist on Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims
  45. turning old clothes into everything from new cotton to fake knees
  46. Mothers explain how they navigated work and childcare, from the 1970s to today
  47. Jakarta riots reveal Indonesia's deep divisions on religion and politics
  48. the more you chase it the more elusive it becomes
  49. are humans going to evolve again?
  50. Call for independent watchdog to monitor NZ government use of artificial intelligence

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