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With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs

  • Written by: Scott McKinnon, Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
imageAndré Holland and Trevante Rhodes in Moonlight: it has seemed in recent years that queer films are just not Best Picture material.A24, Plan B Entertainment

When Faye Dunaway, standing next to a puzzled-looking Warren Beatty, announced that La La Land had won Best Picture at Monday’s Oscars, I doubt many people were surprised. Sure,...

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Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Australia got a taste of US President Donald Trump’s approach to diplomacy in a sensational phone call with Malcolm Turnbull, details of which were leaked to the Washington Post. But the former US ambassador to Australia during the Obama years, Jeff Bleich, says the reaction in the US was “very helpful” to...

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We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them

  • Written by: Marie Segrave, Associate Professor, Criminology, Monash University
imageThere is no transparency in how the Australian Border Force operates when it comes to deporting illegal migrant workers.AAP/Julian Smith

Migration status – even for those with the right to work in Australia – is often used as leverage to exploit workers. This is evident from my ongoing research, other research and government inquiries....

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University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'

  • Written by: Nicola Henry, Senior Lecturer in Legal Studies, La Trobe University
imageFigures show that few reports of sexual assault have resulted in the expulsion of the perpetrator from the university.from shutterstock.com

A number of scathing reports have brought much needed attention to the issue of inappropriate polices and practices for responding to student reports of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault at Australian...

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  1. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  2. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  3. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  4. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  5. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  6. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  7. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  8. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  9. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  10. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  11. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  12. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  13. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  14. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  15. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  16. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  17. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  18. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  19. Architecture, undistracted
  20. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  21. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  22. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program
  23. Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education
  24. The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political
  25. Leaving the past behind: what became of the anal personality?
  26. Nigeria
  27. Philippines
  28. Iraq
  29. Yemen
  30. Turkey
  31. Syria
  32. Saudi Arabia
  33. Sahel region, Africa
  34. South Sudan
  35. Venezuela
  36. Brazil
  37. United States
  38. India
  39. Afghanistan
  40. Pakistan
  41. North Korea
  42. Indonesia
  43. China
  44. War, conflict, economic strife: the world in 2017 is rife with hot spots, but leavened by hope
  45. Ukraine
  46. France
  47. Russia
  48. Germany
  49. We’re not racist, but … Ray Martin, the media and racism’s missing link
  50. Ruling on assisted dying drug Nembutal sets important precedent

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