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Vale Les Murray, a witty, anti-authoritarian, national poet who spoke to the world

  • Written by: David McCooey, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
Vale Les Murray, a witty, anti-authoritarian, national poet who spoke to the worldLes Murray at the National Gallery in Canberra in 2002. He was often seen as an unofficial Australian poet laureate.Alan Porritt/AAP

The death of the Australian poet Les Murray at the age of 80 is a profound loss for his family and friends. It is also a great loss for literature. Whether one writes “world literature” or...

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Morrison and Shorten take aim at one another in leaders' debate: experts respond

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Morrison and Shorten take aim at one another in leaders' debate: experts respondScott Morrison and Bill Shorten were plenty snarky with one another during the debate, but otherwise stuck mainly to their scripts.Nic Ellis/AAP

Through smirks, jabs and plenty of policy disagreements, Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten took aim at one another in the first leaders’ debate of the 2019 federal election and attempted to provide...

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How three scientists navigated the personal and career implications of a name change with marriage

  • Written by: Kate Charlton-Robb, Conservation geneticist and dolphin researcher, Monash University
How three scientists navigated the personal and career implications of a name change with marriageThe majority of Australian women change their name when they marry. Photo byMarc A. Sporys / Unsplash, CC BY

For women who marry men, in 2019 this question still comes up: will you be taking your husband’s name?

It is no longer a legal requirement nor the default position for Australian women to take their partner’s name. But recent...

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Hughes on political advertising

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

ANU marketing lecturer Andrew Hughes says this is the first election where the advertising spend and activity has been more focussed on digital.

He told The Conversation that on Monday, the first day of pre-polling, there was a surge in social media ads - the Coalition had over 230 different ads on Facebook while Labor had over 200.

“The...

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  2. Labor's Newspoll lead falls to 51-49 on dubious assumptions as Palmer and Coalition do a deal
  3. Dingoes and humans were once friends. Separating them could be why they attack
  4. an arbitration dispute and the first ousting of a PM from parliament
  5. It's the luxuries that give it away. To fight corruption, follow the goods
  6. why do we have a QWERTY keyboard instead of putting the letters in alphabetical order?
  7. Nothing to fear? How humans (and other intelligent animals) might ruin the autonomous vehicle utopia
  8. parents, children, and educators stand to benefit, but questions remain
  9. Petrol shortages and the dawn of the Menzies era
  10. Three weeks of early voting has a significant effect on democracy. Here's why
  11. How many species on Earth? Why that's a simple question but hard to answer
  12. 23.9% is a meaningless figure, ignore the tax-to-GDP ratio
  13. a new book examines #MeToo in Australia
  14. Public schools actually outperform private schools, and with less money
  15. Election tightens in Newspoll – Labor lead narrows to 51-49%
  16. Bill Shorten promises $4 billion for child care, benefitting 887,000 families
  17. Morrison brings immigration centre stage with freeze on refugee intake
  18. Palmer flypaper sticky for both sides
  19. It's not worth wiping out a species for the Yeelirrie uranium mine
  20. Michelle Grattan on week two of the campaign #AusVotes
  21. Palmer's preference deal and watergate woes
  22. Why New Zealand needs to translate its response to Christchurch attacks into foreign policy
  23. Labor's crackdown on temporary visa requirements won't much help Australian workers
  24. New Zealand's dismal record on child poverty and the government's challenge to turn it around
  25. Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign
  26. What's the school cleaner's name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcing
  27. Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week
  28. how Western attitudes towards Islam have changed
  29. Bizarrely distributed and verging on extinction, this 'mystic' tree went unidentified for 17 years
  30. Think you're allergic to penicillin? There's a good chance you're wrong
  31. Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent
  32. 'you’re always commenting on power'
  33. you have the chance to stop fuelling devastation in the Amazon
  34. All is forgiven in the Liberal embrace of Palmer
  35. Bat and bird poo can tell you a lot about ancient landscapes in Southeast Asia
  36. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka terror attack. Here's what that means
  37. Palmer's party has good support in Newspoll seat polls, but is it realistic?
  38. Endgame exploits time travel and quantum mechanics as it tries to restore the universe
  39. Psychedelics to treat mental illness? Australian researchers are giving it a go
  40. capturing the reverberations of loss
  41. Foreign policy should play a bigger role in Australian elections. This is why it probably won't
  42. Caroline Fisher on the spin machines of #AusVotes19
  43. What happens now we've found the site of the lost Australian freighter SS Iron Crown, sunk in WWII
  44. Telling the forgotten stories of Indigenous servicemen in the first world war
  45. Ditch plastic dog poo bags, go compostable
  46. House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come
  47. Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it
  48. how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia
  49. Sickly sweet or just right? How genes control your taste for sugar
  50. The government and tech companies can't prevent 'fake news' during the election – only the public can

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