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Politics podcast: WA poll – Kim Beazley on One Nation

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imagePat Hutchens/TC

In our second podcast from the Western Australian election, we talk to Kim Beazley, especially about One Nation. Beazley was federal Labor leader during Pauline Hanson’s first political phase. He sees her as a national security threat and believes she should be opposed in the strongest terms.

“We [in WA] are probably more...

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ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, February 2017

  • Written by: Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

It feels as if February 2017 has been a month of permanent crisis. Between the exceptionally controversial first steps of the fledgling Trump administration in the United States, the increasingly fragile relationships between the various factions within the Coalition government, and the renewed hostilities between government and opposition on the...

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Warm for the human form, from Rodin's bronzes to stone slabs

  • Written by: James Moss, Research Degrees Coordinatior, School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia
imageInstallation view Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time.Art Gallery of South Australia, 2017

Since the beginning of art as we know it, the human body has been central to artistic concerns.

Classical sculpture set the bar very high in exploring the representation of bodies, and the history of the medium over the past millennium reflects this...

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Why 'digital gold' won't ever kill off the real thing

  • Written by: Dirk Baur, Professor of Finance, University of Western Australia

In investment terms, a safe haven is exactly what it sounds like: a place of relative safety when times are tough. Traditionally, safe haven assets have been physical, such as gold and silver, the US dollar and the Swiss Franc.

More recently, Bitcoin, and other intangible assets, have been entering this discussion. An example of the latter would...

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  3. WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of 'CIA hacking'
  4. Why we're marching for science in Australia
  5. FactCheck Q A: are there laws to protect against 'revenge porn' in Australia?
  6. The Science of Leading
  7. The fragility of women's rights: how female guilds wielded power long ago
  8. Unconscious bias is keeping women out of senior roles, but we can get around it
  9. Girls with early first periods become women with greater risk of gestational diabetes
  10. Contested spaces: you can't stop the music – the sounds that divide shoppers
  11. Speaking with: Peter Green on saving the Christmas Island red crab
  12. The eyes have it: how vision may have driven fishes onto land
  13. Snapchat's share price already fading as fast as one of its user's photos
  14. Politics podcast: election report from the West
  15. Is there a test your child can take before getting vaccinated, as Pauline Hanson said?
  16. ABC restructuring: leaner, but hopefully not meaner
  17. Explainer: what are chemical weapons and how do soldiers guard against them?
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  19. Why women make the best stock traders
  20. Australia's almost a world leader in home building, so that isn't a fix for affordability
  21. Five-yearly environmental stocktake highlights the conflict between economy and nature
  22. How to protect your private data when you travel to the United States
  23. Millennials in the workplace: not as different as you think
  24. Hidden fees and the lowdown on Macquarie's latest way to make money
  25. Explainer: what are blood groups and why do they matter?
  26. Company results: how competition is transforming Australia's retail sector
  27. How clergy became scapegoats of the sex abuse crisis in the Anglican Church
  28. The Nintendo Switch breaks convention but lacks a killer app
  29. Please don't do your own research on immunisation; you'll get it wrong
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