Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years
A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia - to 65,000 years ago.
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The University of Notre Dame Australia was founded through an Act of the Parliament of Western Australia in December 1989. Since its inception, Notre Dame has become a leader in higher education and now boasts over 11,000 students enrolled across its three Campuses in Fremantle, Sydney and Broome.
Notre Dame is an Australian university which has embraced both the modern Australian university tradition and the ancient and esteemed traditions of Catholic universities both in Europe and North America.
It has sought to be a university which specialises in excellence of undergraduate education. Its focus is the education and training of young people for entry to the major professions: medicine, law, teaching, nursing, accounting and finance, physiotherapy, counselling, health sciences and the priesthood.
The University is especially noteworthy for its role as a leader in the great traditional professional disciplines of Health and Education, so long associated with the mission of the Church in Australia. It has also assumed a special role in the education of, and service to, the indigenous people of northern Australia.
In the 2016 Good Universities Guide, Notre Dame was awarded 5-star ratings in the following categories: Teaching Quality; Generic Skills; Overall Graduate Satisfaction; Getting a Full Time Job; and Graduate Starting Salary. This is the ninth consecutive year that Notre Dame has received the maximum 5-star ratings in Teaching Quality, Generic Skills and Overall Graduate Satisfaction and the second year the University has received 5-star ratings in the categories of Graduate Starting Salary and Getting a Full Time Job.
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Viewpoints: should euthanasia be available for people with existential suffering?
Imagine this situation: a person has no medical illness but wishes to end his or her life purely because he or she no longer wishes to live. Should they be eligible for euthanasia or assisted suicide?
Should ‘pro-ana’ websites be criminalised in Australia?
Criminalising websites that celebrate extreme, unhealthy thinness is deeply problematic.
The top five films of the Sydney Film Festival (and the rest)
Neo Nazi terror, a dark Instagram crush, a layman's history of the black civil rights movement ... here are the best offerings from this year's Sydney Film Festival.
Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur – a triumph of modern spectacle
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is an at times thrilling, at times bizarre, viewing experience that blends classic English myth with a gangster aesthetic.
Scrounging for money: how the world’s great writers made a living
Writers have tried pretty much anything to make ends meet: advertising, journalism, butterfly collecting, working as a janitor or a postal clerk.
Los Angeles Overnight – one of the best films you will (probably) never see
I had the privilege of attending a private screening, the other week, of Los Angeles Overnight, an extraordinarily good new low-budget film. Unfortunately, chances are you won’t get the same opportunity…
The Syrian war is normalising the weaponisation of health care
It's estimated that at least 800 medical personnel have been killed since the start of the Syrian war.
Myths about musculoskeletal pain and Aboriginal Australians prevent high quality care
Some 20% of Aboriginal Australians suffer long term musculoskeletal pain and to date it has received little attention or recognition.
Exquisite prose, with rare and subtle insight
Heather Rose has won the 2017 Stella Prize for her novel The Museum of Modern Love, a fictional exploration of the power of art to transform individual lives, written in exquisite prose, with rare and…
Unflinching, luminous, and moving, the Stella shortlist will get under your skin
All six books nominated for the Stella Prize - to be announced tonight - engage the brain, and the heart. These are books that matter because they show us how to live in desperate times.
When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are ‘bullshit’
People are right to be skeptical when it comes to many slippery slope arguments used by those against euthanasia. But some of them are valid and shouldn't be dismissed as 'bullshit'.
Connecting with Frankenstein: Modern Monsters and Belonging
I have always loved Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The original gothic novel, Shelley’s tale is eternally appealing in part because of the philosophical questions it raises that are central to our human…
#ThanksforTyping: the women behind famous male writers
From Tolstoy to Mark Twain, the most famous writers owe many words of thanks to their long-suffering wives.
Friday essay: from grotesques to frumps – a field guide to spinsters in English fiction
Grotesques, prattlers, hysterical women ... historically, spinsters have had a raw deal in fiction. But astonishingly, the situation for older single ladies in contemporary novels has scarcely improved.
A critical guide to the Oscar Best Pic contenders – and why Moonlight should win
There are five very good films nominated for the Best Picture gong and one extraordinary one.
Australian cinema for Australia Day
Australian cinema has offered striking, intelligent and forceful evaluations of our national identity. Rather than play an outdated gambling game this Australia Day, why not watch the best of Aussie film?
2017: The year ahead in cinema
From the Blade Runner reboot to Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot to a film about the reincarnated spirit of a dog ... here is our list of the movies to look forward to - or not.
Lion is a well-made melodrama with a rather disturbing message
Lion, which has screened to critical acclaim around the world, seems to think it's a political film. In reality it's an effective melodrama that uncritically embraces a colonial fantasy of white saviours.
Telling the tale of 2016: On choosing how to remember the year
As 2016 winds down there has been a lot of talk about what a terrible year it has been, an annus horribilis, if you like (and no, that’s not a Harry Potter spell). Yet, as an antidote, there have also…
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Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor of Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Head of Research, Cerebral Palsy Alliance & Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Dean of Education, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer Philosophy and Bio-Ethics, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Ethics & Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Cultural Researcher, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Director, Centre for Faith, Ethics and Society; Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia