Are we counting culture to death?
It’s a strange thing when the re-entry of genuine choice into political contests is framed as “anti-politics”. It feels more historically accurate, and logical, to see it the opposite way. For the past…
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Three charts on: the NBN and Australia’s digital divide
The National Broadband Network was meant to provide greater equity of digital access. So far, it's not looking good.
A human percussion section: The Idea of North with Kaichiro Kitamura
Kaichiro Kitamura is a human beat box. He teamed up with Australia's renowned a capella ensemble to make some extraordinary music.
Tall turkeys and nuggety chickens: large ‘megapode’ birds once lived across Australia
Large birds once lived across Australia, only to become extinct around the time that giant marsupials and other megafauna died out during the Pleistocene "ice ages".
Report sparks concern about how schools support students with disabilities
'Cage-like' facilities, segregation, and high numbers of exclusions show the concerning ways schools have responded to challenging behaviours by students with disabilities.
Some private hospitals are safer than others, but we don’t know which
Australians can't tell which private hospital is safer then the next because the data isn't publicly available. It's time that changed.
Six ways to improve meal times with your children
Having trouble getting your kids to eat? Here are six things you could do at the table, and before, to make meal times a bit less stressful.
How do we choose who gets the flu vaccine in a pandemic – paramedics, prisoners or the public?
Australia needs to think about who gets the flu vaccine first before the next pandemic strikes and supplies run low.
Passed away, kicked the bucket, pushing up daisies – the many ways we don’t talk about death
We use euphemisms about death and dying to soften the blow of the real words, or because we feel awkward being direct. But this can lead to misunderstanding and confusion.
Dinosaur embryo returned to China, but many fossils fall victim to illegal trade and poor protection
A new, "baby dragon" dinosaur revealed in a fossil returned to China is a striking example of the discoveries that might be lost when scientific specimens are illegally removed and traded.
Cave dig shows the earliest Australians enjoyed a coastal lifestyle
Part of the land inhabited by some of the early Australians is now submerged, but details of their life is now revealed in an excavation on an island off the continent’s north-west coast.
Explainer: what is a special counsel and what will he investigate in the Trump administration?
The investigation is likely to end in one of two ways: the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, or the beginning of his second term.
Every critic counts: why Fairfax must keep its arts journalists
Fairfax's plans to reduce arts coverage as part of 125 jobs to go put Australia's cultural enterprise in jeopardy.
Pilot study on why academics should engage with others in the community
Funding for research in Australia could soon depend on how much researchers engage with others who could benefit from and help out with the work.
Space bling: ‘jewelled’ LAGEOS satellites help us to measure the Earth
We know much about the true shape of our planet is thanks to two satellites that act as targets for lasers fired from Earth.
The great Australian plays: sex, poetry and The Chapel Perilous
No other Australian playwright has mined their own life as much as Dorothy Hewett. In this expressionist drama, she depicts a girl of yearning heart, looking for love and hungry for life.
Bob Brown takes to the High Court to put hardline anti-protest laws to the test
Following his 2016 arrest, former Greens leader Bob Brown aims to show that Tasmania's anti-protest laws are in conflict with the constitution's implied right to political communication.
Bayes’ Theorem: the maths tool we probably use every day, but what is it?
The decisions we make in life often come down to Bayes' Theorem, but most of us don't even realise what it is. So how does it work?
Don’t worry, the odds of catching legionnaires’ disease in Melbourne are pretty slim
Should the public be worried about the recent outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Melbourne's CBD?
The end of Catalyst: four ironies
An oft-occurring phrase in Peter Temple’s award-willing crime novel, Truth, is “moving on”. Characters say it when they want to change the subject, or there doesn’t seem much more to say about a subject…
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Alice Gorman is a Friend of The Conversation.Senior Lecturer in archaeology and space studies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Flinders University
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Head of Department of History, Flinders University
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Head of Department of American Studies, Flinders University
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Director, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University
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Professor of Psychology, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Planning, Flinders University
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Professor of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Social Planning, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Flinders University