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We asked almost 1500 Australians about the art they liked and disliked. Then we mapped middlebrow culture. We found plenty to enjoy there.
We're supposed to suppress feelings of envy. But what if the kind spurred by school shutdowns, frontline work and cramped apartments are worth exploring – and acting upon?
Many of the privileges that middle-class students enjoy are not obvious, even to themselves.
It doesn't have to be a week of tiresome turkey sandwiches. A food historian explains how the French came to see leftovers as an outlet for creativity and experimentation.
Rural and small-town residents believe they aren't getting their fair share from the government. A majority of them were Trump supporters in 2016. How will they vote when Trump is gone?
A scholar of literary radicalism asks whether Marx's writings are at all relevant to the world's struggles with inequality today and why he's no longer being relegated to the dustbin of history.
Most child sex abuse happens within families, but we still cling on to the Victorian idea of paedophiles as outsiders.
Social class plays a huge role in people's experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education.
The discourse and structure of online learning can exclude English language minority students. Techniques such as video chats, "safe houses" and content-focused grading can support their success.
Even where communities are mixed, many inner-city families go to extraordinary financial and geographic lengths to ensure their children do not go to school with children from 'the flats'.
The tricky truth is that change goes in both directions.
The Assisted Places Scheme was a controversial policy that got 75,000 poorer pupils a top-tier education. Or so it was claimed.
By focusing on intergenerational inequalities that will eventually be reversed, we are framing the housing affordability question the wrong way.
'Posh white girls' are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
For years, social scientist have assumed that it's class that determines a person's health and well-being. Have they been barking up the wrong tree?
Top contributors
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne
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Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Director of Education, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Method, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography, University of Melbourne
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Associate Researcher, Newcastle University
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M.A. Candidate, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University
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Research Fellow, ‘Catalysing Neurohumanities research into Child Sexual Abuse’, Trinity College Dublin
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Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of South Florida
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Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College
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Head of Department: Emergency Medical Care & Rescue, Durban University of Technology
