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A Byzantine ancestor to same-sex marriage?

  • Written by: Mark Masterson, Senior Lecturer of Classics, Victoria University of Wellington
imageHailed as "Mother of the Emperor", Danelis goes to Constantinople to meet with Emperor Basil IFrom wikimedia, CC BY-ND

You might think same-sex marriage is something completely new. You would be mostly right, but history has other things to show us. History is not as familiar as we sometimes think it is.

Spiritual brotherhood in the Byzantine Empire...

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Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?

  • Written by: Troy Whitford, Lecturer in Australian History and Politics, Charles Sturt University
imageAntifa, or militant progressives, have always existed and flourished in democracies.Reuters/Stephanie Keith

Anti-fascist action, more popularly known as “antifa”, can be best described as international socialism on amphetamines. Driven by progressive ideology and “workers’ rights”, it has adopted violence and...

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Change Agents: Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia briefly stopped Japanese whaling

  • Written by: Andrew Dodd, Program Director – Journalism, Swinburne University of Technology
imageNavin75/Flickr, Australian Marine Conservation Society, ANU

The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has called a halt to its famous missions tracking the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.

For the past 12 years the group’s boats have engaged in annual high-seas battles with vessels carrying out Japan’s self-described scientific...

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The Australian Greens at 25: fighting the same battles but still no breakthrough

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

On August 30, 1992 in Sydney, media were invited to a press conference to launch a new national political party: The Australian Greens. It was a Sunday, and no television crews bothered to turn up. One journo who did was Robert Garran from the Australian Financial Review, who reported that:

The Greens Party, representing green political groups in...

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  27. Rethinking the causes of road trauma: society’s problems must share the blame
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  35. Talk of same-sex marriage impinging on religious freedom is misconceived: here's why
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  37. Research shows the importance of parents reading with children – even after children can read
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  39. Personal boundaries can be lost in translation for Chinese professionals in Australia
  40. Digging for dirt in the digital age: the trouble with journalism and doxing
  41. Green for wellbeing – science tells us how to design urban spaces that heal us
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