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Climate change's signature was writ large on Australia's crazy summer of 2017

  • Written by Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Australia’s summer is officially over, and it’s certainly been a weird one. The centre and east of the continent have had severe heat with many temperature records falling, particularly in New South Wales and Queensland.

For much of the country, the heat peaked on the weekend of February 11-12, when many places hit the high 40s. That...

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Australia has kept disabled migrant children out for decades – it's time we gave them protection instead

  • Written by Ruth Balint, Senior Lecturer in History, UNSW

Assistant Immigration Minister Alex Hawke recently intervened to allow a 16-year-old girl with autism spectrum disorder, who had been ordered to leave Australia, to stay in the country.

Sumaya Bhuiyan had been living in Australia for eight years, but was rejected for permanent residency in 2013. Her mother, a practising doctor in Sydney, told...

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Where are the working-class characters on today's Australian TV?

  • Written by Sarah Attfield, Scholarly Teaching Fellow, Communications, University of Technology Sydney
imageHow often are stories about wealthy lawyers and surgeons told? Marta Dusseldorp in ABC's Janet King. Screentime, imdb

What do the recent mini-series Hoges, about the life of Paul Hogan, and the Fair Work Commission ruling regarding reducing Sunday penalty rates for some workers have in common? Not much maybe on the surface, but both events made me...

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Catchphrase to cliché: how corporate-speak became common in our everyday lives

  • Written by Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
image‘Going forward’ is a boardroom and husting escapee that has now made it big time in the workplace, and even outside.shutterstock

Should you ever wish to be reminded of those irritating workplace catchphrases, the internet abounds in news features and helpful sites – “26 Annoying Business Clichés You Should Stop Using...

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  1. Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces
  2. The mysterious disappearance of health from New South Wales planning laws
  3. Kenneth Arrow's legacy and why elections can be flawed
  4. Why it might be time to reconsider the money spent on genetics research
  5. Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia
  6. How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty
  7. When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey
  8. China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants
  9. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  10. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  11. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  12. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  13. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  14. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  15. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  16. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  17. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  18. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  19. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  20. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  21. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  22. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  23. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  24. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  25. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  26. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  27. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  28. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  29. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  30. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  31. Architecture, undistracted
  32. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  33. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  34. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program
  35. Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education
  36. The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political
  37. Leaving the past behind: what became of the anal personality?
  38. Nigeria
  39. Philippines
  40. Iraq
  41. Yemen
  42. Turkey
  43. Syria
  44. Saudi Arabia
  45. Sahel region, Africa
  46. South Sudan
  47. Venezuela
  48. Brazil
  49. United States
  50. India

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