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Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India

  • Written by: Irfan Ahmad, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute
imageNarendra Modi has described his electoral victory in India as divine.Narendra Modi/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st...

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What actually is a good city?

  • Written by: Paul James, Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Western Sydney University
imageIt's hard to see how a city can be good for all its people unless they are involved in its creation.Paul James, CC BY-SA

This is one of a series of articles to coincide with the 2017 Ecocity World Summit, which begins today in Melbourne.


Our cities have now been named as the saving places of a planet in crisis. And yet we cannot decide on the...

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Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?

  • Written by: Carol Johnson, Professor of Politics, University of Adelaide
imageMalcolm Turnbull's speech reminded his Liberal colleagues that he has not stolen the party and his leadership is legitimately Liberal.Reuters/Hannah Mckay

It is a sign of how serious the divisions have become in the Liberal Party that speaking the truth about Robert Menzies is now depicted as making a provocative attack on the Liberal right.

Yet...

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How we change the organisms that infect us

  • Written by: Ian Mackay, The University of Queensland
imageJust as organisms that infect us make changes in us - we too make changes in them and they grow and adapt to their human hosts. from www.shutterstock.com

This is part of our four-part package looking at infectious diseases and how they’ve influenced our culture and evolution. Read the other articles here.


Humans play host to many little...

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  3. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  4. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  5. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  6. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  7. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  8. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  9. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  10. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
  11. With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
  12. Donald Horne's 'lucky country' and the decline of the public intellectual
  13. How Australia's discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma
  14. Explainer: what can Tesla's giant South Australian battery achieve?
  15. All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness
  16. La Mama demonstrates the value of independent theatre
  17. Can you spare 5 minutes for The Conversation?
  18. More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap
  19. Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
  20. How we've evolved to fight the bugs that infect us
  21. Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
  22. How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
  23. Migrants are stopping regional areas from shrinking
  24. Delaying action on car emissions will make Australia more vulnerable
  25. A time capsule containing 118 trillion cubic feet of gas is buried in northern Australia
  26. Here’s looking at: Jim Dine's The mighty robe
  27. Turnbull's dilemma: we don't need a homeland security portfolio but Dutton wants a bone
  28. Disagreement within the Greens shows the price of doing politics differently
  29. What we miss when we focus on the gender wage gap
  30. Why comparing technology to drugs isn't simply a question of addiction
  31. A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories
  32. Islamophobia is still raising its ugly head in Australia
  33. As an historic nuclear weapons treaty is reached, G20 leaders miss the mark on North Korea
  34. Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of our time and how we're overcoming them
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  36. Three reasons the government promotes home ownership for older Australians
  37. We know innovation is key – but there's little agreement on exactly what it is
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  39. Campaigns urging us to 'care more' about food waste miss the point
  40. As the world embraces space, the 50 year old Outer Space Treaty needs adaptation
  41. Where Australia's great theatre artists trod the boards: 50 years of Melbourne's La Mama theatre
  42. The Gateway Bug: a documentary about the future of food
  43. When Trump met Putin, and how the Russian won the day
  44. The Great Barrier Reef isn't listed as 'in danger' – but it's still in big trouble
  45. Renewed commitment to multilateralism required to deal with forced human displacement
  46. The G20's new guidelines will help investors tackle climate change
  47. Explainer: is a High Court challenge about to bring down the Turnbull government?
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