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Barney Glover: The time has come for a national agreement on the future of higher education

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageUniversity-industry collaboration should be a vital policy goal for Australia, says Barney Glover.Dan Himbrechts/AAP

This piece is based on a speech made by Barney Glover to the National Press Club at the Universities Australia conference on March 9, 2016.


On February 11, David Reitze of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (or...

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Explainer: the exciting new genre of the audio-visual film essay

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imageA still from Mirrors of Bergman, a profoundly moving audio-visual essay.Vimeo.

During March, the renowned film scholar Adrian Martin and the film critic Cristina Álvarez López are conducting a series of public workshops and lectures on a new and exciting phenomenon of digital film culture: the audio-visual essay.

Barely ten years old,...

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