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As we face pressing global issues, the pavilions of Venice Biennale are a 21st century anomaly

  • Written by: Felicity Fenner, Associate Professor at UNSW Art & Design, UNSW
As we face pressing global issues, the pavilions of Venice Biennale are a 21st century anomalyOne of the most powerful images at this year's Venice Biennale is Christoph Büchel's Barca Nostra, 2018-2019, Shipwreck 18th of April 2015. La Biennale di Venezia

The 58th Venice Biennale of Art opened last weekend, the world’s first and still largest biennale exhibition in a field that now numbers over 100 major events internationally....

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This is what happens to a baby's body during birth

  • Written by: Ian Wright, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health Research, University of Wollongong
This is what happens to a baby's body during birthDelivering a human baby – which has a large, highly developed brain – is risky for mother and baby. jaredandmelanie/flickr , CC BY

Pregnancy, labour and delivery are incredibly physically demanding for women. But birth is no walk in the park for the baby either.

A new paper reveals just how much a baby’s head is pushed and...

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Race tightens in Ipsos and Dutton just ahead in Dickson, plus many more seat polls

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Race tightens in Ipsos and Dutton just ahead in Dickson, plus many more seat pollsThe election campaign is finally coming to an end, with Australians to head to the polls tomorrow.AAP/Bianca de Marchi/Tracey Nearmy

The federal election will be held tomorrow. Polls close at 6pm Australian Eastern Standard Time in the eastern seaboard states, 6:30pm in SA and the NT and 8pm in WA. Votes cast on Election Day will mostly be counted...

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Hawke was our larrikin, but also our reformer

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

Bob Hawke will be remembered variously as Labor’s longest and Australia’s third-longest serving prime minister, as a union leader, and a larrikin.

But most of all, he will be remembered as a reformer -— presiding over a set of economic reforms that modernised the Australian economy and set the stage for the prosperity of the last...

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  8. Friday essay: is this the Endgame
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  11. To build social cohesion, our screens need to show the same diversity of faces we see on the street
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  13. Bill channels Gough as he hopes that his time is coming
  14. Vale Bob Hawke, a giant of Australian political and industrial history
  15. Election surprise. Negative gearing isn’t a rort — but something else is
  16. The 'Christchurch Call' is just a start. Now we need to push for systemic change
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  19. How should I vote if I care about preventing the extinction of nature?
  20. US ban on Huawei likely following Trump cybersecurity crackdown – and Australia is on board
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  27. Real estate agents targeting tenants is the lowest of the low blows during election 2019
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  33. Angry Nationals play payback in NSW Senate row
  34. A 'Council for the Future' could break Australia's climate paralysis
  35. The UK has a national climate change act – why don't we?
  36. what you need to know to protect yourself
  37. The Coalition's $10 million for Year 1 phonics checks would be wasted money
  38. Labor's idea of an Evaluator General could dramatically cut wasteful spending
  39. In Black Swan's Water, three vignettes explore the politics of immigration, drought and family dynamics
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