A plebiscite on legalising same-sex marriage is bad policy that ought to be revisited.
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Australian parliaments routinely legislate in respect of socially contentious issues without resorting to plebiscites or referenda.
Australian basketballer Alice Kunek (left) attracted the ire of a team-mate for this Instagram post where she had painted her face brown.
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Debates around blackface and Indigenous health share similar characteristics that reveal aspects of Australian society when it comes to race.
Like 1066 all over again: William had his work cut out to subdue the Saxons.
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Anglo-Saxon opposition to the Norman conquest lasted for years after the Battle of Hastings.
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The tiltyard – like the football pitch – was an important arena in which men could demonstrate their prowess in front of a vast audience.
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In 1942 a man called Walter White travelled to Hollywood to try and persuade filmmakers to cut the negative stereotypes of African Americans in movies.
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It is 2016 but, when it comes to housing, in many ways it could actually be 1891.
A strange day.
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Without them, June would soon fall in winter.
The Crusades evoke a romantic image of medieval knights, chivalry, romance and religious high-mindedness.
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Representing even the Crusades as wars between Christians and Muslims is a gross oversimplification and a misreading of history.
Secular Meat, 2016, Sajan Mani.
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Faced with fake history, Indian artists are digging up the past.
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It’s been a long, slow decline, so can anyone solve the Great British cuppa crisis?
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With Vikings on trend, it’s high time for a masterclass on the bizarre world of their names.
A Harper’s Weekly cartoon of German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg, Germany, 1874.
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Anti-migrant rhetoric is running high in the US – but its star proponent would do well to think about his German roots.
Topsy-turvy, inside-out.
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Is this the future of the piano?
New York Fashion Week has grown from its humble second world war roots into a cultural juggernaut.
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New York Fashion week starts today and the world will watch outrageous designs strut down the runway. How did New York become one of the great fashion centres of the modern world?
Joe Louis and Neil Scott help Isaac Woodard up a set a stairs soon after a beating left him blind.
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In 1946, a horrific beating left a Black World War II vet blind. His determined fight for justice would earn the support of Orson Welles, Woody Guthrie – and even the president.
Suffragette Vida Goldstein became the first Australian to meet an American president at the White House.
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Australia’s inimitability with regard to women’s political equality has barely entered conventional studies of political history.
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Are you an extrovert or an introvert? The answer’s just a tick away.
It is hard to imagine what a partitioned Syria would look like.
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There is no guarantee that a partitioned Syria would create a more stable environment. Many Syrians would reject partition and would attempt to reverse it.
Protector in chief: Theodore Roosevelt with conservationist John Muir at Yosemite in 1906.
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Historically, environmental causes enjoyed bipartisan support but gains by NGOs and the emergence of climate change as a social issue have created a sharp political divide.
The grave of Cecil John Rhodes in Zimbabwe’s Matopos Hills.
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Why Oriel College Oxford was right not to agree to take down a statue of the British imperalist.