Hop Lin Jong's arrival in Western Australia in 1901 was remarkable only because she was Chinese. Her life might have passed in obscurity if not for the murder of her daughter in 1925.
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Augustus's long line of high-profile admirers see him as a great statesman who brought peace to a Roman Republic long afflicted by civil wars. But how admirable was he, really?
Persecuted by Stalin, writers Lydia Chukovskaya and Anna Akhmatova endured threats, cold and starvation. And in an epic feat, Lydia memorised the poems of her friend that were too dangerous to commit to paper.
This frail and often hated woman became a passionate advocate of a woman's place in a democratic society before a tragic episode broke her.
Hace cincuenta años la gente vio nuestro planeta desde el exterior por primera vez.
We all have the blinkers on when shopping with our ethics.
Fifty years ago people saw our planet from the outside for the first time.
Our identity unquestionably shapes (and can limit) how we interact with the world. But it should not become the only foundation upon which we build our understanding of it.
2018 was a mixed bag for schooling policy in Australia, with new ministers, a new organisation and auspicious anniversaries. It’s worth reflecting on the year that’s been.
For Australians serving overseas in WWI, Christmas was particularly difficult. Menus reveal how soldiers tried to maintain the traditions of home.
Authentic assessment is perceived as being harder to outsource, and has been adopted by many Australian university teachers. But that doesn't mean students won't still cheat on them.
The budget looks good, for now. But the surge in taxable profits will subside as companies find ways to shift profits offshore. We've come up a better way to tax onshore what happens onshore.
The latest Fairfax-Ipsos and Essential polls give a strong lead to Labor, with some interesting – and variable - detail on the attributes voters see in the leaders of the two major parties.
Three years after the Paris Agreement, negotiators have finally agreed (most of) the rules for its implementation. But there is still no way to compel countries to deepen their climate ambitions.
Just because somebody else does something doesn't mean you have to follow. Or does it?
Many parents decide to have a second child in the expectation that two can't be more work that one – but new research shows that idea to be mistaken.
An ACCC interim report is one of the most consequential documents for media policy in decades, while a government report finds both public broadcasters are acting in the public interest.
Cutting migration to Australia's biggest cities would do nothing to ease congestion in those cities and could make it worse.
The average consumerist suburban lifestyle is unsustainable. But what if affluent suburbanites and battlers alike ditch the rat race and embrace economic 'degrowth'? Here's how it might unfold.
Expanding cities and farmland have created many small, often isolated patches of vegetation. Long seen as having limited ecological value, a new study shows these are vital for endangered species.
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Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
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ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Melbourne
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Hon. Assoc. Prof., Fire Ecology and Management, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Merck Serono Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Biology, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Peter McPhee is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne
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Academic Convenor, MAEVe ( Melbourne Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, University of Melbourne
