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Friday essay: the Australian Mosque
Those opposed to the building of new mosques don't recognise their long history here, or potential to support Australian ideals. Mosques are part of our suburban landscape and can help overcome fears about Islam.
Weekly Dose: LSD – dangerous, mystical or therapeutic?
During the 1950s and 1960s, LSD was used more for psychotherapy than recreation. Between 1950 and 1965, many were treated with LSD for alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, autism and homosexuality.
Invasive predators are eating the world’s animals to extinction – and the worst is close to home
Cats, rats, foxes and other mammal predators have been implicated in 60% of the world's animals extinctions.
Climate Policy’s House of Cards
There are the pragmatists willing to compromise to get at least something, and then there are the idealists who stick to their principles and end up with nothing. Or so the argument goes. This tired old…
EcoCheck: the Grampians are struggling with drought and deluge
The Grampians, like much of Australia, has swung from Millennium Drought to Big Wet and back again, putting animal populations on a rollercoaster that could get worse as climate change bites.
The Climate Change Authority report: a dissenting view
Two members of the Climate Change Authority offer an alternative view on its latest report, arguing that the recommendations are not in line with Australia's international climate obligations.
The Anthropocene Belongs to Earth System Science
The idea of the Anthropocene was conceived by Earth System scientists to capture the very recent rupture in Earth history arising from the impact of human activity on the Earth System as a whole.(1,2…
How The Bachelor turns women into misogynists
The Bachelor, like most reality TV, thrives on drama. But its particular style of conflict illustrates an uncomfortable point: women can easily be sexist against other women.
Neonicotinoids linked to wild bee and butterfly declines in Europe and US
Two new studies have linked controversial pesticides neonicotinoides to wild bee and butterfly declines.
Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
It's time for a fresh look at community and policy development in rural and regional NSW – one that recognises that doing things differently will deliver benefits to urban populations as well.
Reimagining NSW: four ways to boost community well-being and why it matters
Healthy, engaged people and communities will be crucial for a prosperous future for New South Wales. Here are four areas of policy focus that will help achieve that.
The cold logic of doing good
This weekend Melbourne is hosting a conference on effective altruism. The aim of effective altruism (EA) is to do “as much good as possible per dollar spent”. Its premise is that much giving is wasted…
‘If you don’t have a beer you’re not a man’ – rural workplaces made more dangerous by drugs and alcohol
Rural workplaces often tacitly encourage excessive drinking and even drugtaking.
One Nation, Climate Denial and those Jewish Bankers
Malcolm Roberts, the Queensland One Nation candidate who seems set to be elected to the Senate, sees the world through the eyes of the archetypal conspiracist. Dark forces move with malign intent behind…
Weekly Dose: ice and speed, the drugs that kept soldiers awake and a president young
Ice is a slang name for crystal methamphetamine – a stimulant drug that is swallowed, smoked or injected. It works by activating the reward pathways in the brain, producing feelings of alertness.
The myth of public opinion
What this election shows more clearly than most is that the idea of the public will is a fiction, and that out there in the electorate politics is a battle of wills.
One in five early childhood educators plan to leave the profession
20% of surveyed early education educators said they want to leave their job due to low pay, volume of paperwork and feeling undervalued.
‘Rape can set you free’: Po-mo critics of Elle still hooked on cliches of transgression
How are we to understand the rapturous reception leading film critics have given to Paul Verhoeven’s “rape comedy” Elle? The bad boy director, they tell us, “dares us to judge”, “explodes conventions…
Brexit, Trump and the Fracturing of Conservatism
Watching the rise of right-wing populism tear conservative parties to shreds provides a certain amount of Schadenfreude. Donald Trump’s fight with the GOP Establishment is being mirrored across the Atlantic…
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Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Vice-Chancellor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University
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Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer in Journalism, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer in Justice Studies, Charles Sturt University
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PhD Candidate, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer in Early Childhood Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Ecology), Charles Sturt University
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Director, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor, Counter Terrorism, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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PhD student in Regional Creative Industries, Charles Sturt University