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Designed features can make cities safer, but getting it wrong can be plain frightening

  • Written by: Paul Cozens, Environmental Criminologist and Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning, Curtin University
Designed features can make cities safer, but getting it wrong can be plain frighteningMany cities have used spikes on ledges and other spaces to prevent (usually homeless) people from sleeping or sitting on them.from shutterstock.com

City planners and designers can help make spaces safer in many ways. One strategy is known as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED, pronounced “sep-ted”). This approach is...

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Children who have lost a parent to family violence need to be listened to

  • Written by: Eva Alisic, Associate Professor, Child Trauma and Recovery, University of Melbourne
Children who have lost a parent to family violence need to be listened toGrieving children need to feel like their opinion matters.from shutterstock.com

Around the world, at least one in seven homicides are committed by a current or former intimate partner. In the United States, estimates suggest that, each year, a child may be more likely to lose a parent (the mother, in most cases) to intimate partner homicide than to...

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Sorry, men, there's no such thing as 'dirt blindness' – you just need to do more housework

  • Written by: Leah Ruppanner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne
Sorry, men, there's no such thing as 'dirt blindness' – you just need to do more houseworkWhile the gender gap is narrowing, women still do seven hours more housework per week than men (and that doesn't include the child-caring).Shutterstock

The problem with housework is that it is never-ending drudgery. As soon as the floor is cleaned, the dog throws up, the kids spill slime ingredients into the wood grain, and the tradie walks through...

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The great movie scenes: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • Written by: Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
The great movie scenes: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space OdysseyStill from '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968)

What makes a film a classic? In this column, film scholar Bruce Isaacs looks at a classic film and analyses its brilliance.


2001: A Space Odyssey was released 50 years ago but it remains as relevant today as it was in 1968.

The film was a collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Both were...

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