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Friday essay: the myth of the ancient Greek 'gay utopia'

  • Written by: Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History Deputy Head of School, The University of Queensland
imageThe Fall of the Titans, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, circa 1590Wikimedia

In our sexual histories series, authors explore changing sexual mores from antiquity to today.

In recent years, we have seen significant advances won for LGBT rights through hard-fought legal cases and well-targeted political campaigns. Yet it is worth remembering that for...

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Flying home for Christmas? Carbon offsets are important, but they won't fix plane pollution

  • Written by: Susanne Becken, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
imageRoey Ahram/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Australia is an important player in the global tourism business. In 2016, 8.7 million visitors arrived in Australia and 8.8 million Australians went overseas. A further 33.5 million overnight trips were made domestically.

But all this travel comes at a cost. According to the Global Sustainable Tourism Dashboard, all...

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Vital Signs: Australia heads into 2018 with mixed economic signals

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageIt's hard to get a fix on where Australia's economy is headed.Garry Knight/Flickr, CC BY

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: the housing...

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Calling all parents – Australia's future female scientists need your support now

  • Written by: Drew Evans, Associate Professor of Energy & Advanced Manufacturing, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of South Australia
imageGirls need their parents to support them in heading towards careers in science, technology, engineering and maths. from www.shutterstock.com

Women are underrepresented and underpaid in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

The majority of programs and schemes addressing this problem focus on girls, or their teachers, or on assist...

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  4. Explainer: the politics of heavy metal
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  6. Measures to increase cycling in Australia are predicated on failure
  7. Instead of congratulating ICAN on its Nobel Peace Prize, Australia is resisting efforts to ban the bomb
  8. Not just heat: even our spring frosts can bear the fingerprint of climate change
  9. It's official: 2016's Great Barrier Reef bleaching was unlike anything that went before
  10. Australians working in China should expect fallout over questions of political interference
  11. A bubble? We don't even know how to value Bitcoin
  12. Between innocence and experience: the sexualisation of girlhood in 19th century postcards
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  14. Cutting funding for hospital complications is unlikely to change patient care – here's why
  15. Democrat Doug Jones wins Alabama Senate byelection in stunning upset; Bennelong is tied 50-50
  16. Why we removed an article on the My Health Record
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  20. What the robots of Star Wars tell us about automation, and the future of human work
  21. What is going rotten in the franchise businesses plagued by scandals
  22. Sexting: technology is changing what young people share online
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  28. The government is miscounting greenhouse emissions reductions
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