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A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.
Extreme heat divides people from the environment and from each other. So with the rapid densification of our cities, what kind of legacies are we building for future generations?
To create property systems that are as dynamic as the landscapes we occupy, we might need to start thinking about ourselves as belonging to and answerable to the land, not the other way around.
City dwellers are individually starting to do their bit to live sustainably. Now pioneering businesses are aiming to make ecological and social sustainability part of their bottom line.
Developing principles to create cities that are good for all is not easy. Who decides what is good? And for whom? We desperately need a big and general public discussion about this.
The promotion of home ownership as a way of funding care in later life is part of a broader policy trend toward making people individually responsible for the opportunities they have.
Who is responsible for space debris? What laws should apply to humans living on another planet? Who has rights to mine asteroids? The Outer Space Treaty needs an update to address such questions.
The housing market is too volatile to look at prices alone. If you want to understand the housing market you need to look at the wider economy.
A full valuation of the Great Barrier Reef leads to a number so high it is essentially not worth considering in economic terms.
We must have open conversations with kids so they’re able to identify reliable news online.
The special protection offered via international law is not enough to keep journalists reporting on conflict zones and assuage concerns about free speech.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first in the phenomenally successful series, turns 20 this month. Despite criticism of their status as ‘literature’, the books remain a magical experience for children.
Converting a DNA sequence into an audio could help us learn something useful about it, like where mutations occur.
A number of universities around the world are providing free textbooks to first year university students as a way to increase retention rates.
Laws against blasphemy privilege the feelings of Christians over other religious people, and have no place in a modern, inclusive society.
A Quiet Passion, a film about Emily Dickinson’s life, opens in cinemas this week. Dickinson wrote 1789 poems in her lifetime: only ten were published.
Around the world today, fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, but for those who persist, it is a ‘feast’ of a book.
It starts with making sure every pupil feels included and listened to.
The proposed anti-siphoning changes certainly shift the economic balance from free-to-air to pay-TV, as well as from government intervention in the sport TV market to more open market play.
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Sessional Lecturer, School of Social Sciences & Psychology, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Invertebrate Ecology, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University
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Emeritus Professor, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor. Deputy Director TeEACH Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Research Theme Fellow in Health and Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Associate professor, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Western Sydney University
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Academic, Master of Art Therapy Program, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Urban Management and Planning, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
