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Talking to John Clarke: a friend and biographer reflects

  • Written by Anne Pender, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of New England
imageJohn Clarke: he particularly hated management speak.AAP

On the Thursday before that terrible Sunday when John collapsed during a hike in the Grampians, he sent me an email, alerting me to a typo in a biographical essay I had published about him. I was so grateful to him for taking the trouble to check the text and for pointing out the error, and...

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Australian politics explainer: the MV Tampa and the transformation of asylum-seeker policy

  • Written by Alex Reilly, Deputy Dean and Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key moments in Australian political history, looking at what happened, its impact then, and its relevance to politics today.

Some time before August 23 2001, a small Indonesian fishing boat, the KM Palapa 1, left Indonesia en route to Christmas Island with 438 asylum seekers aboard.

Like many...

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The multi-billion-dollar subsidy for private health insurance isn't worth it

  • Written by Elizabeth Savage, Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
imageConsumers continue to view private health insurance as poor value for money.shutterstock

Almost 20 years after the 30% subsidy for private health insurance was introduced, premiums continue to rise every year. This comes at a cost to the federal budget – which was forecast at A$6.5 billion in the 2016 federal budget from the subsidy alone.

Mea...

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Why S-Town invites empathy not voyeurism

  • Written by Siobhan McHugh, Senior Lecturer, Journalism, University of Wollongong
imageBrian Reed, host of S-Town, somewhere in the woods of Bibb County, Alabama.Andrea Morales

Warning: this article contains spoilers.

With In Cold Blood, Truman Capote invented the non-fiction novel and turbocharged the genre of literary journalism. S-Town, a podcast by the team at Serial and This American Life that appeared on March 28th as seven...

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  2. Age discrimination in the workplace happening to people as young as 45: study
  3. The slow death of Australian children's TV drama
  4. Cyber attacks ten years on: from disruption to disinformation
  5. Australian politics explainer: the Mabo decision and native title
  6. How virtual reality spiders are helping people face their arachnophobia
  7. Budget to distinguish good and bad debt
  8. Gas export restrictions imposed to ensure domestic supply
  9. Abdel-Magied Anzac row is a storm over not much
  10. The schoolgirls of Charles Blackman – haunting works from a politically innocent age
  11. Explainer: what is reflation and is Australia experiencing it?
  12. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on North Korea's aggression
  13. Macron and Le Pen battle voter disdain as they square off for French presidency
  14. Investing in rural health brings dollar returns to local economies (and improves health)
  15. Backyard skinny-dippers lack effective laws to keep peeping drones at bay
  16. Self-esteem among narcissists is 'puffed up, but shaky'
  17. Chevron is just the start: modelling shows how many billions in revenue the government is missing out on
  18. The US, Russia and China: a twisted tale of personal ego, profound mistrust and foolish nationalism
  19. Five things the east coast can learn from WA about energy
  20. Here's looking at: Vincent Van Gogh’s Olive grove with two olive pickers
  21. Cities are complex systems – let’s start looking at them that way
  22. Health Check: what can your doctor tell from your urine?
  23. No, epigenetics and environmental responsiveness don’t undermine Darwinian evolution
  24. Curious Kids: Does space go on forever?
  25. Your headphones aren't spying on you, but your apps are. Here is why
  26. Turnbull expects to meet Trump next week
  27. Witch-hunts and surveillance: the hidden lives of queer people in the military
  28. Stitching lives back together: men's rehabilitation embroidery in WWI
  29. How Anzac Day came to occupy a sacred place in Australians' hearts
  30. Discovered in WWI, bacterial viruses may be our allies in a post-antibiotic age
  31. English language bar for citizenship likely to further disadvantage refugees
  32. How our addiction to safety could lead to another financial crisis
  33. Chevron: a game-changer for multinational tax avoiders
  34. Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2: a scientist's review
  35. 457 visa changes won't impact on wider temporary education workforce. And maybe that's deliberate
  36. Research Check: are Aussie women ageing up to 20 years faster than US women?
  37. Why and how businesses should protect against data breaches from within
  38. Australian politics explainer: the Prices and Incomes Accord
  39. The Hobbit hits the headlines again, but is the mystery of its origins really solved?
  40. Logies 2017 – Samuel Johnson wins gold for Molly at a wonderfully daggy ceremony
  41. Macron likely to defeat Le Pen in French Presidential election runoff
  42. Lies, monsters and Kate Mulvany's intensely human portrayal of Richard 3
  43. Want to boost the domestic gas industry? Put a price on carbon
  44. The real reason Scott Morrison is playing down the budget
  45. Why China will be watching how we commemorate Anzac Day
  46. Bigfoot, the Kraken and night parrots: searching for the mythical or mysterious
  47. East Timor, war, coffee and Australia's debt of honour
  48. Bayes' Theorem: the maths tool we probably use every day, but what is it?
  49. Parking isn't as important for restaurants as the owners think it is
  50. Science or Snake Oil: can turmeric really shrink tumours, reduce pain and kill bacteria?

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