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Alex Seton's stark, moving protest sculptures carved from marble

  • Written by: Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW
Alex Seton's stark, moving protest sculptures carved from marbleDetail from Alex Seton's A Durable Solution? - a series of memorial plaques naming the 12 men who have died under our 'care'.Sullivan & Strumpf

Alex Seton’s sculpture A Durable Solution? is concentrating the minds of some delegates as they approach this weekend’s ALP national conference in Adelaide. It is the key work in All We...

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How does the Moon, being so far away, affect the tides on Earth?

  • Written by: Mark Hemer, Senior Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
How does the Moon, being so far away, affect the tides on Earth?When the sea level rises to its highest point, we call that high tide. When it falls to its lowest point, that's called low tide.Flickr/bpinzini, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. You can send your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production...

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How cinema's new Aquaman draws on the mythology of ancient sea gods

  • Written by: Adam Turner, PhD student, University of Newcastle
How cinema's new Aquaman draws on the mythology of ancient sea godsJason Momoa as Aquaman in the forthcoming film. IMDB

Muscular, bearded and trident-wielding, Jason Momoa’s portrayal of the titular Aquaman in the forthcoming DC film draws on ancient Greek and Roman iconography.

Water gods in Greek mythology are a diverse group. There are human-looking gods such as Poseidon, god of the sea, or Tethys: goddess...

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Not wiped out. Why Whyalla, of all places, now has a sustainable future

  • Written by: Michael O'Neil, Executive Director, SA Centre for Economic Studies, University of Adelaide
Not wiped out. Why Whyalla, of all places, now has a sustainable futureIt's a long way from most places, but it is about to host a bigger battery than the world's biggest, molten salt solar and pumped hydro generation, and a much bigger steelworks.Shutterstock

Whyalla will be wiped off the map by Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, Whyalla risks becoming a ghost town, an economic wasteland if this carbon tax goes ahead...

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  2. Law and order is no get-out-of-jail card for floundering politicians
  3. Morrison government promises $1.25 billion for health care
  4. 'Designer' babies won't be common anytime soon – despite recent CRISPR twins
  5. Victorian upper house greatly distorted by group voting tickets; federal Labor still dominant in Newspoll
  6. why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
  7. ACCC wants to curb digital platform power – but enforcement is tricky
  8. Will the new Mary Poppins film acknowledge the suffragettes' success?
  9. How much physical activity should teenagers do, and how can they get enough?
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  11. ADHD prescriptions are going up, but that doesn't mean we're over-medicating
  12. Huawei executive's arrest will further test an already shaky US-China relationship
  13. Digital platforms. Why the ACCC's proposals for Google and Facebook matter big time
  14. How physical activity in Australian schools can help prevent depression in young people
  15. Cities can grow without wrecking reefs and oceans. Here's how
  16. Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'
  17. As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution
  18. Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space
  19. did more people buy their seventh home than bought their first home last year?
  20. How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues
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  25. Human rights in 2018 – ten issues that made headlines
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  27. the power of a symbol
  28. The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says so
  29. forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
  30. The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security
  31. Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018
  32. The problems with small satellites – and what Australia's Space Agency can do to help
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  34. The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
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  36. Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content
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