Australia needs a cabinet-level portfolio dedicated to managing culture, one of the country’s leading cultural commentators, Julianne Schultz, said at a breakfast address in Sydney today. The Ministry…
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The creative industries are an intriguing part of the UK economy - glitteringly successful, but difficult to pin down in terms of exact value and for some, maybe just too volatile to trust. Ever since…
In Kubrick’s masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, a group of our ape-like ancestors encounter a towering black rectangle somewhere in an African desert. Something in them changes. A seed is sown. Everything…
Australia should work harder on its official and unofficial diplomacy to strengthen its ties to India, after a new survey revealed Indians had a mixed perception of the two countries’ relationship. The…
MATTERS OF THE MIND – a series which examines the clinician’s bible for diagnosing mental disorders, the DSM, and the controversy surrounding the forthcoming fifth edition. There’s an old saying that psychology…
Last week’s Freeplay Independent Games Festival in Melbourne served as a reminder that videogames – all videogames – are culturally significant. Freeplay, which gives people from Australia’s videogame…
On last night’s Q&A, feminist campaigner Germaine Greer suggested a comparison between practices of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa and female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) in Western nations…
Female genital cutting (FGC) – also known as female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision – is widely practised in Africa and has been described by UNICEF “one of the worst violations of the…
In 2012, public debate over the value of art and culture has reignited as conservative state governments in Victoria and Queensland cut arts funding from their budgets. Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s…
Might the destiny of nations be controlled by the underlying shape of their geography? This is the subject of a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors…
Humanist funerals that emphasise the individual are a truer reflection of contemporary western society than traditional religious…
The term “hipster” has become increasingly prominent in Australia’s urban lexicon this year. Even the Sydney Morning Herald has caught on, writing about “Hipster Housing”, featuring a young bespectacled…
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Director, Cities of Culture Research Observatory, University of Liverpool
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Director of China-Indonesia Desk, Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS)
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Associate Professor in Marketing, ESCP Business School
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Senior Lecturer in Māori Language Revitalisation, Auckland University of Technology
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Contract Faculty, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University; SEDRD Adjunct Professor, University of Guelph
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Adjunct Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
