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Donald Trump’s Brave New World and Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision

  • Written by: Keith Booker, Professor of English, University of Arkansas
Donald Trump’s Brave New World and Aldous Huxley’s dystopian visionA graffiti portrait of Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr, CC BY

In our series, Guide to the classics, experts explain key works of literature.


A year-and-a-half into the presidency of Donald Trump, some see this administration as the stuff of dystopian nightmares. Trump’s apparent disrespect for truth is...

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New solar cells offer you the chance to print out solar panels and stick them on your roof

  • Written by: Paul Dastoor, Professor, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle
New solar cells offer you the chance to print out solar panels and stick them on your roofThis roof in Newcastle has become the first in Australia to be covered with specially printed solar cells.University of Newcastle, Author provided

Australia’s first commercial installation of printed solar cells, made using specialised semiconducting inks and printed using a conventional reel-to-reel printer, has been installed on a factory...

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What type of relationship should I have with my co-parent now we're divorced?

  • Written by: Kristin Natalier, Associate Professor in Sociology, Flinders University
What type of relationship should I have with my co-parent now we're divorced?The relationship might be over but the parenting isn't. Brittany Simuangco/Unsplash

When talking about separation and divorce, media and personal stories often focus on relationships characterised by ongoing conflict or violence. In contrast, Australian research suggests low conflict or cooperative post-separation relationships are common.

These are...

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Local communities need more reassurance about the legacy left by coal seam gas wells

  • Written by: Tom Measham, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

One of the key questions any industry must consider is: what is left behind when it is finished. For coal seam gas (CSG), this question is crucial, considering the thousands of CSG wells that have already been drilled, not to mention the many more that could potentially be drilled in the future.

While most CSG wells will not be decommissioned...

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  4. Could Section 44 exclude Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce from parliament?
  5. Our new PM wants to 'bust congestion' – here are four ways he could do that
  6. An ape in anguish: Brett Whiteley's Sacred baboon
  7. Liberal MP Julia Banks to quit at election, calling out bullying
  8. With Bishop gone, Morrison and Payne face significant challenges on foreign policy
  9. How Brazil can beat the odds and restore a huge swathe of the Amazon
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  11. how Antarctica has inspired Australian composers
  12. Where are all the other galaxies hidden?
  13. The Indigenous employment gap is widening and we don't know how to fix it
  14. I have painful periods, could it be endometriosis?
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  17. Worst reaction to midterm PM change in Newspoll history; contrary polls in Dutton's Dickson
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  20. what passengers like about Uber
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  22. Behrouz Boochani's unsparing look at the brutality of Manus Island
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  27. Would an eruption in Melbourne really match Hawaii's volcanoes? Here's the evidence
  28. How to get children to eat a rainbow of fruit and vegetables
  29. Turnbull resigning seat on Friday, giving Morrison a real-time voting test
  30. what Turnbull's urban policy has achieved, and where we go from here
  31. Amid blackout scare stories, remember that a grid without power cuts is impossible... and expensive
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  33. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals’ implosion
  34. Australians think our politicians are corrupt, but where is the evidence?
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  36. Business owners' control of their work-life balance is the fine line between hard work and hell
  37. Here's how to reset New Zealand’s cultural diplomacy in the Pacific
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  40. If the Liberals have any hope of rebuilding, they might take lessons from Robert Menzies
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  44. how corporations 'nudge' us into spending more
  45. Furious voters deliver their verdict, with government's huge Newspoll plunge
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