When the city centre was revitalised in the 1990s, homeless people were pushed out. With homelessness rising today, it’s important to recognise the links between urban development and displacement.
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Sydney’s LGBTQI heartland has moved and changed over time, but the importance of urban space to queer communities remains a constant.
A furious Twitter row between a TV personality and South African politician about slavery sheds light on the failings of arguments in 280 characters.
For more than a century, board games have provided children with some of their first exposure to Indigenous stereotypes — hidden behind ornate lithographs, painted cubes and punched cardboard.
France’s answer to #MeToo was #BalanceTonPorc – “denounce your pig”. An analysis of the idioms linking to sex and pigs provides some insights into why the hashtag hit home.
Raising U-3523 wouldn’t be worth the incredible cost.
In the abstract, this near-mythic figure represents bravery, hard work and manliness.
Why are they shiny? And how did Pennsylvania become the pretzel capital of the world?
The Home Office threw away landing documents that are now vital to people trying to prove their right to stay in the UK.
Sex was central to life in ancient Mesopotamia. And the authors of Sumerian love poetry, depicting the exploits of divine couples, showed a wealth of practical knowledge about the stages of female sexual arousal.
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The audio version of an in depth article from The Conversation, which explores how antisemitism today is carved from and sustained by powerful precedents and inherited stereotypes.
Building features can be analyzed in the same way that facial recognition software works, revealing previously hidden elements of history.
Pop culture, personal tragedy and heroic persistence all played a role.
France has launched a new autism plan – but why does the country lag behind in its provisions for the condition?
The Panama Canal was a tremendous achievement by the U.S. and a display of their power and abilities. However, the health costs to the mostly Caribbean contract workers was enormous.
That pre-sleep herbal tea may be doing many people a lot of good.
Where else but on the sports field can an under-educated and even a troubled Aboriginal youth achieve celebrity status and social mobility?
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming opium as an expense – but was never promoted above his entry rank of detective third class.
Behind the built-up glitz of Surfers Paradise lies a deep history that has been written and overwritten in successive layers that have become thinner and thinner as time goes on.
There is a long, dishonourable history of detrimental policy going back to the 15th century.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
