Tom D.C. Roberts has crafted a book full of remarkable insights into a central figure in Australian corporate and political history, a figure hitherto enveloped in family mythology: Keith Murdoch.
Australia’s policies on asylum seekers have been criticised by many countries at the UN’s Human Rights Council.
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Dallas Rogers speaks with Shanthi Robertson and Ien Ang about the role migrants, refugees and the border will play in Australia during the Asian century.
Narcissism is the current favoured scapegoat for our interpersonal and social ills.
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A work-life-family balance is highly valued by most workers and employers now realise they need to offer flexible arrangements such as reduced hours, flexi-time or telework (working from home). Workplace…
Google’s machine learning software already does some pretty amazing things, such as visual translations.
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Google’s decision to release its machine learning software as open source could be a major boost for the development of new Artificial Intelligence technologies.
PhD students taking part in a writing bootcamp at the University of New South Wales.
Claire Aitchison
Six people are dead and more than 20 missing following the Samarco mine disaster in Brazil. But in the rush to blame we must consider the complexity of such failures.
Australian parliaments continue to resist legalising euthanasia or its cousin, assisted suicide.
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The Australian public supports legalising euthanasia and bills are introduced into state parliaments every year. Yet governments continue to resist legalising euthanasia or assisted suicide.
A new exhibition examines the meaning and enduring influence of the colour blue.
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Blue crops up in all sorts of idioms and registers. But, as a new National Gallery of Victoria exhibition demonstrates, there’s more to the colour, and its long history, than meets the eye.
Housing developers want to make a profit by maximising land value, but this presents a problem for affordable housing.
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An increase in land supply is the usual solution put forward to solve the housing affordability crisis. What proponents of this argument fail to mention is that you need an industry prepared to deliver…
The coffins of people murdered by Islamic State are carried through the streets of Kabul in a demonstration against violence and terrorism.
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Afghanistan has seen mass protests before, but Wednesday’s was different. In a show of national unity and support for the political system, protesters called for continued international help.
Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison’s recent comment was easy to misinterpret but ultimately correct.
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It would be easy to misinterpret a recent comment by federal Treasurer Scott Morrison as meaning that states and territories generate 90% of all revenue collected in Australia. That’s not the case.
Disadvantaged children find schools increasingly irrelevant to their lives.
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Australian education fails one in four young people. It is time we started exploring why school is not working for increasing numbers of disadvantaged children.
The government’s revised citizenship-stripping bill improves upon the original proposal in a number of ways.
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The government’s revised citizenship-stripping bill adopted all recommendations made by a parliamentary committee. But it’s still no certainty to survive a High Court challenge.
Let them eat cake, but remember: food has a political life of its own.
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Kitchen Cabinet’s staging of “casual” food preparation with the nation’s most powerful people reproduces a culture of white Australian entitlement to master and consume any and every cultural product.
Violence plays out in highly gendered ways. But many more factors are at play.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people experience family and sexual violence at rates similar to, or higher than, heterosexual women.
These Vietnamese tea farmers are set to benefit from the deal. Others might not be so lucky.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been described by its backers as a boon for development. But with no concrete commitments, nor any mention of climate, it is really at odds with the UN development agenda.
The global multilateral trade regime is being challenged by a plethora of regional trade deals.
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Do companies really mean it when they talk about being socially responsible? Judging by their mission statements and homepages, it seems increasingly that resources firms do, but many retailers don’t.
Recent news reports that vegetable oil can cause cancer don’t rely on solid new scientific evidence.
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Few media reports in the health sphere generate as much attention as those with screaming headlines about a new link between food and cancer, but they’re not always based on the best scientific evidence available.
As a product of the Melbourne music scene, Nick Cave’s global reputation has benefits for the city.
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