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Australian taxpayers are providing Transfield Services with $1.2 billion over 20 months to operate the detention facility on Nauru.
Vivid Sydney draws larger crowds each year and when it opens this weekend, the streets will be packed. Are events like Vivid Sydney and Paris’ Nuit Blanche artistically valuable – or just a lot of fun?
Speaking with Jason Dittmer on superheroes and fascism
America's flirtations with fascism in the 1930s and the influence of the Second World War gave rise to nationalistic, quasi-fascist superheroes who are still relevant and popular today.
More and more workplaces are turning to the wellness industry to try and solve the problem of overwork.
Any backflip on the Federal Budget’s highly optimistic growth forecasts will have tangible impacts on confidence and in turn, the economy.
While Ireland’s pro-marriage equality campaign is leading in the polls, the gap has narrowed ahead of Friday’s vote. And history shows that Irish referendums can be far closer than the polls predict.
Societies overwhelmingly endorse reproduction, but the pressure this places on people who don’t want to have kids may be putting their health at risk.
With free-to-air, pay TV, catch-up services and video-on-demand, television is changing in Australia, and the viewership metrics are struggling to keep up.
We tend to lose almost 40% of new information within the first 24 hours of first reading or hearing it. However if we take notes effectively, we can retain and retrieve almost 100% of the information we receive.
China’s falling coal production suggests the world is waking up to the real cost of coal, calculated as $5.3 trillion in a report released this week.
Countries will take emissions reduction pledges to international climate talks in Paris at the end of this year. Those pledges should also include funds for low-carbon R&D.
A new policy by publisher Elsevier is threatening to wind back the gains made by the open access movement.
A previously obscure scholarly metric has became an item of heated public debate, thanks to Bjorn Lomborg. So what is an H-index and how is it calculated?
There is a way for governments to find out the consensus on global issues such as climate change. But it involves painstaking, complex work, and an end to the adversarial clash of competing ideologies.
Ask your friends and colleagues about young Australians and alcohol and I bet they’ll say something about a generation out of control or a binge-drinking epidemic.
When journalists justify what they do, they invariably say: “We hold governments to account. We act in the public interest.” It justifies the most noble investigative journalism. It is a sacred catechism…
The current climate is inviting us to conceive of Baltimore not as a place where the law doesn’t work but, more radically, as an example of Italian legal philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception”.
The planning for any new road should include plenty of mathematical modelling. But getting the right numbers can be a challenge and there’s the odd paradox to deal with as well.
With the federal cuts to the renewable energy target, the states are stepping up to fill the gap.
Conflicting policies on Papua reveal that the Indonesian government frame its easternmost region as a problem.
While many insist that the West should appease Syria’s Assad regime, this ignores the wishes of many ordinary Syrians – who are the key to defeating Islamic State and other extremists in Syria.
While MasterChef might teach us a lot about food and food trends, it also glosses over some of the harsher realities of the industry that produces this food. What’s the secret to its sudden ratings boost?
Will completing the Constitution without making any substantive changes satisfy Indigenous Australians or make any real difference to their lives? Ahead of the proposed referendum on Indigenous recognition, such questions are vital.
A close look at Hockey’s tax avoidance laws aimed at multinationals like Apple and Google, shows they can avoid them.