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Welcome to part two of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, Dennis Altman…
It was fun while it lasted Finland, but we’re going cold on you. We thought your schools had the secret but our new infatuation is with Asian school systems. The Prime Minister seems to agree. The government…
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Imagine a specially-engineered surface that could allow liquids to boil without bubbling. This sounds counter-intuitive and, in a way, it is. But consider the following. When a small drop of water is dropped…
As had long been predicted, Apple today (AEST) announced the launch of the iPhone 5. The famously secretive Apple had sprung many leaks over the past few months, despite claiming it would be doubling down…
A few years ago I joined a book club. This ill-conceived lark lasted just the one episode but happily proffered a handful of anecdotes. My favourite was the ice-breaker. Having myself repeatedly assigned…
Sixteen years ago the premier of Victoria, Jeff Kennett, asked me to conduct an inquiry into drug policy. At the time, deaths from heroin overdoses were high and the use of cannabis and other drugs continued…
Online harassment against two prominent Australian personalities within the last fortnight has ignited fresh calls for the regulation of cyber “trolling”. The recent episodes experienced by television…
It is currently the 11th of September in America. As in 2001, it is a Tuesday. It coincidentally marks the start of a new round of a project related to terrorism response that I’m working on, and it occurred…
Recent cases of online abuse against Charlotte Dawson and NRL player Robbie Farah have attracted considerable media attention and triggered public debate about how to respond to this issue. But how big…
Ahead of the US presidential election in November, five prominent Australian thinkers give us their view on what they would like to come out of the contest. Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management…
Having just moved to Australia from the U.S., I find myself in an unfamiliar position for the election season. For most of the past twenty years I was involved to one degree or another in Federal or local…
It’s common enough for a tooth to be knocked out on the footy field, in the playground, during a fight, or even a fall. The blood, shock and pain can easily cause you to panic but, as with most things…
The collapse of the child-care business ABC Learning in 2010 was an extraordinary chapter in Australian corporate history. Colourful Queensland businessman Eddy Groves, built the world’s largest publicly…
SAVING THE OZONE: It might not seem so long ago that the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica had us in a frenzy over CFCs in hairsprays and insecticides. In fact, on September 16 2012…
Amid the resurgent popularity of zombies in recent years – think The Walking Dead, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shaun of the Dead and so on – the 2011 publication of Dan Drezner’s Theories of International…
There have been renewed calls from employers - mainly in the retail sector - for reductions in the wage premiums (or penalty rates) that industries are required to pay staff for work undertaken at non-standard…
I don’t like people leaving my life. By ‘don’t like’ I mean hate. This situation is based on a variety of personality quirks, notably rampant sentimentality and a distaste for change. For a normal person…
In an interview on ABC News24 following President Obama’s acceptance speech, I argued that neither he nor Romney got any sort of lift (or ‘bounce’) from their respective conventions. This was confirmed…
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Subject coordinator in Asian Studies, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Digital Health Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary fellow, The University of Melbourne
