While the press corps of some countries spend thousands of hours and millions of words speculating on minor leadership shuffles, their colleagues in Libya enjoy a slightly greater economy of scale. This…
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Applying for a job is stressful enough, but if you have a criminal record, even if it’s not relevant to the job you’re applying for, it can be a nightmare. Employers in Australia regularly discriminate…
It’s fair to say that homelessness is at crisis point in Australia. According to the 2006 census, almost 105,000 Australians were homeless on any given night. And the problem clearly hasn’t disappeared…
In late 2004 war nerds all over the world were nuking the popcorn and drinking in the sight of the US Marines going toe-to-toe with insurgents in Fallujah. Finally the cowardly terrorists were going to…
How do you end the conflict in Syria? Easy. Just get the President’s missus to bend his ear about human rights abuses and he’s bound to stop. The latest hit with the slacktivists is to sign a petition…
Speaker of the House of Representatives Peter Slipper has stepped aside following allegations of sexual harassment and the misuse of cab-charge vouchers. Slipper’s former adviser James Ashby accused the…
AUSTRALIA IN THE ASIAN CENTURY – A series examining Australia’s role in the rapidly transforming Asian region. Delivered in partnership with the Australian government. Today, Professor David Walker looks…
With all the focus on Sunnis and Shi’ites, and now even the Allawites in Syria, it’s easy to forget about that other big Islamic sect – the Druze. The Druze are associated with the Ismaili side of Islam…
The banning of (at this stage) ten candidates for Egypt’s parliamentary elections sends some worrying signals about the mechanisms for democracy in the Arab world’s most populated nation. Some candidates…
Australia has a long record of charismatic political leaders and Bob Brown is perhaps the most notable recent example, but unlike other leaders of this style he has demonstrated remarkable political skill…
In one of those bizarre and seemingly random collisions between social media and the real world the Kingdom of Bahrain looked like it was going to miss out on the chance of seeing a Formula 1 Grand Prix…
The massive but largely benign earthquake off the coast of Sumatra on Wednesday left millions in Aceh reliving the nightmare that engulfed them on Boxing Day 2004. On that day, a similarly large earthquake…
With all the focus on Syria in recent weeks, the usual Doctor Evil of the region, Iran, has been getting a break. No doubt they have been spending their time testing nukes, building mega rockets disguised…
The cynical will be unsurprised at the revelations on the weekend that some dirty deals were done in the name of politics concerning Libya and the War on Terror. It appears that in the name of getting…
There’s nothing like Easter to show the complexity of Middle Eastern religious affairs. When you start looking at this part of the year, it soon becomes apparent why there are so many tensions. And it’s…
It was Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz who best encapsulated the moral paradoxes of modern warfare and the equivocal relationship between the foreign battlefield and the standards of home: “We train young…
The apparent total acceptance of a ceasefire plan by the Syrian government gives us today’s “WTF? moment”. It’s hard not to be surprised at this turn of events. Or to put it another way, it’s hard to believe…
Just over a year ago I wrote my first story for The Conversation. I was frustrated by media reporting of the Libyan Revolution; coverage that I felt did little to explain the fractured nature of the opposition…
Reading this week’s media coverage of the NDS hacking and piracy allegations the first thing that springs to mind is that this continues an ‘Annus Horribilis’ for the Murdoch clan which began with News…
I noticed at the start of the trimester that many of my first year students have dates of birth in 1993. In the spirit of similar lists I have seen over the years (and with the help of Wikipedia), I offer…
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Lecturer, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Nutrition, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Anthropology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University
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Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Cyber Risk and Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Affiliate Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Deakin University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), and Acting Director the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate - School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
