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How Australia's discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma

  • Written by: Cat Pausé, Senior Lecturer in Human Development, Massey University
imageFat stigma harms the health and wellbeing of fat people.Stocky Bodies, CC BY-NC

In her recent book tour promoting Hunger, author and academic Roxane Gay has been unflinchingly honest with audiences about the impacts of having a fat body, and has drawn the public’s attention to a long-running conversation about fatphobia and fat activism.

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Explainer: what can Tesla's giant South Australian battery achieve?

  • Written by: Ariel Liebman, Deputy Director, Monash Energy Materials and Systems Instutute, and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
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Last Friday, world-famous entrepreneur Elon Musk jetted into Adelaide to kick off Australia’s long-delayed battery revolution.

The Tesla founder joined South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill and the international chief executive of French windfarm developer Neoen, Romain Desrousseaux, to announce what will be the world’s largest...

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All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness

  • Written by: Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
imageSymptoms of mental disorders are inter-connected. Pixabay. , CC BY-SA

Mental disorders are traditionally seen as rather like flowering bulbs. Above the ground we see their symptoms, but we know their source lies hidden beneath the surface. If we treat the symptoms without addressing the cause – cut off the flower without uprooting the bulb...

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La Mama demonstrates the value of independent theatre

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
imageLa Mama's value lies in the hard-to-measure connections between collaborators in theatre. La Mama

This year Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre celebrates its 50th year of operation. In an interview for the company’s 20th anniversary, the founding director Betty Burstall said:

The basic thing is the money. As it was originally posited, [La Mama]...

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  1. Can you spare 5 minutes for The Conversation?
  2. More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap
  3. Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
  4. How we've evolved to fight the bugs that infect us
  5. Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
  6. How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
  7. Migrants are stopping regional areas from shrinking
  8. Delaying action on car emissions will make Australia more vulnerable
  9. A time capsule containing 118 trillion cubic feet of gas is buried in northern Australia
  10. Here’s looking at: Jim Dine's The mighty robe
  11. Turnbull's dilemma: we don't need a homeland security portfolio but Dutton wants a bone
  12. Disagreement within the Greens shows the price of doing politics differently
  13. What we miss when we focus on the gender wage gap
  14. Why comparing technology to drugs isn't simply a question of addiction
  15. A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories
  16. Islamophobia is still raising its ugly head in Australia
  17. As an historic nuclear weapons treaty is reached, G20 leaders miss the mark on North Korea
  18. Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of our time and how we're overcoming them
  19. Market-driven compaction is no way to build an ecocity
  20. Three reasons the government promotes home ownership for older Australians
  21. We know innovation is key – but there's little agreement on exactly what it is
  22. Without better regulation, the global market for breast milk will exploit mothers
  23. Campaigns urging us to 'care more' about food waste miss the point
  24. As the world embraces space, the 50 year old Outer Space Treaty needs adaptation
  25. Where Australia's great theatre artists trod the boards: 50 years of Melbourne's La Mama theatre
  26. The Gateway Bug: a documentary about the future of food
  27. When Trump met Putin, and how the Russian won the day
  28. The Great Barrier Reef isn't listed as 'in danger' – but it's still in big trouble
  29. Renewed commitment to multilateralism required to deal with forced human displacement
  30. The G20's new guidelines will help investors tackle climate change
  31. Explainer: is a High Court challenge about to bring down the Turnbull government?
  32. Private clinics' peddling of unproven stem cell treatments is unsafe and unethical
  33. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on infighting in the Liberal Party
  34. It's not the science of tax, and five other things you should know about taxonomy
  35. Impending traffic chaos? Beware the problematic West Gate Tunnel forecasts
  36. Book review: The Death of Expertise
  37. Electronic games: how much is too much for kids?
  38. Vital Signs: the RBA was right to keep rates on hold
  39. A new approach to emissions trading in a post-Paris climate
  40. Forget cash: geocaching shows there are other ways to create value online
  41. Friday essay: double standards and derision – tracing our attitudes to older women and beauty
  42. Migrants are healthier than the average Australian, so they can't be a burden on the health system
  43. A busy week on the dark web highlight darknet markets' increasing role in crime
  44. Grattan on Friday: Everything's going Bill Shorten's way
  45. Labor motion on Palestinian recognition could put the Jewish vote in play at the next election
  46. Australia's dry June is a sign of what's to come
  47. Why the climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than weather records suggest
  48. Explainer: what is ballistic missile defence – and would it stop a missile from North Korea?
  49. Speaking with: Professor Peter Koopman on CRISPR and the power of genome editing
  50. Vivacious and unapologetic, The Rover's 17th-century feminism is painfully pertinent

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