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Trump and the cycle of dehumanisation

  • Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
imagePeople are sometimes very willing to blatantly deny others’ humanity.Wikimedia Commons

People rarely respond well to being demeaned and humiliated. When they believe others see them as lesser beings, they react with anger, revenge and distrust. In doing so, they deepen and entrench a mutual hatred.

There is no better laboratory for studying...

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How we kept disease-spreading Asian Tiger mozzies away from the Australian mainland

  • Written by Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney

Spring floods and summer heatwaves. There is nothing mosquitoes love more than warm weather and water. In many regions of Australia, these extreme conditions can increase the risk of mosquito-borne disease.

Outbreaks of Ross River virus in some parts of the country have been as record-breaking as the heatwaves. The virus has even started...

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Trainspotting on stage brings a disturbing reality vividly to life

  • Written by Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University

Irvine Welsh’s in-yer-face, anti-fairy tale of no-hope NEDs (non-educated delinquents), and the mega-highs and ultra-lows of skank (heroin) in Thatcherite Scotland, may now be seen by those who, when it first appeared, were no more than wee gobshites sucking at their mother’s tit. And if you think that’s offensive, perhaps this...

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Mount Isa contamination 'within guidelines' but residents told to clean their homes

  • Written by Mark Patrick Taylor, Professor of Environmental Science, Macquarie University
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After an 11-year wait, Mount Isa Mines has released the official report into the lead contamination that has blighted the city for decades.

The report, commissioned by the mine’s owner, Glencore, and produced by researchers at the University of Queensland, says that household dust contaminated by airborne lead from the mining and smelting...

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  1. There are some difficult questions to ask Netanyahu, but boycotting his visit won't answer them
  2. APRA fiddles on bank risk while Rome burns
  3. Which supplements work? New labels may help separate the wheat from the chaff
  4. Labor's climate policy could remove the need for renewable energy targets
  5. Bystanders often don't intervene in sexual harassment – but should they?
  6. PewDiePie, new media stars and the court of public opinion
  7. WestConnex audit offers another $17b lesson in how not to fund infrastructure
  8. Morrison's tanty over bankers hiring Anna Bligh was arrogant and absurd
  9. Australia's march towards corporatocracy
  10. The anatomy of an energy crisis – a pictorial guide, Part 2
  11. Explainer: trickle-down economics
  12. FactCheck Q A: was it four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago?
  13. Response from a spokesman for Jacqui Lambie for a FactCheck on climate change
  14. Health Check: are naps good for us?
  15. Diminishing city: hope, despair and Whyalla
  16. Emotional fallout: Little Emperors brings China's one-child policy to the stage
  17. Imaging study confirms differences in ADHD brains
  18. Should Victoria introduce a swifter model of sentencing family violence offenders?
  19. Why small business tax cuts aren't likely to boost 'jobs and growth'
  20. Australia needs to reboot affordable housing funding, not scrap it
  21. New study shows more time walking means less time in hospital
  22. The 20th century saw a 23-fold increase in natural resources used for building
  23. Wary of human-animal hybrids? It's probably just your own moral superiority
  24. Guide to the classics: Alice Pung on Robin Klein's The Sky in Silver Lace
  25. Women also sexually abuse children, but their reasons often differ from men's
  26. US president shoots the messengers. SAD!
  27. WA ReachTEL: Liberals gain to move to tie
  28. The Death of President Trump
  29. The bitter consolation of imitation
  30. Game therapy: serious video games can help children with cerebral palsy
  31. The Great Wall fails to bring down the barriers in a lacklustre Chinese-US epic
  32. Bush democracy wins out but council mergers continue in Sydney
  33. Work councils could be the future of Australian industrial democracy in an ABCC world
  34. Australia emerges as a leader in the global darknet drugs trade
  35. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the omnibus bill
  36. Netanyahu visit historic – and potentially fraught – for Australia
  37. Words, Tweets and Stones in the Political Correctness Wars
  38. How we do FactChecks at The Conversation
  39. Essays on health: reporting medical news is too important to mess up
  40. Australians believe 18C protections should stay
  41. Australia's electricity market is not agile and innovative enough to keep up
  42. Friday essay: the female werewolf and her shaggy suffragette sisters
  43. Vital Signs: business confidence spikes but uncertainty reigns
  44. Grattan on Friday: The 'Omnibus' puts government in a tangle and Xenophon in a jam
  45. The Red Detachment of Women marches forward – but to where?
  46. Politics podcast: Anthony Albanese on Labor's approach to infrastructure
  47. North Korea may not yet have a long-range missile, but its progress is worrying
  48. Help us restore trust in experts
  49. Roe 8 fails the tests of responsible 21st-century infrastructure planning
  50. Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer

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