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When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing

  • Written by: Phil McManus, Proefessor of Urban and Environmental Geography: Head of School of Geosciences, University of Sydney

What is it that pushes some riders to break the rules on the use of the whip in Thoroughbred horse racing in Australia?

The prospect of coming second – or even last – may have something to do with it, if our team’s study of recorded official whip rule breaches is anything to go by.

In the study, published today in the open access...

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The trouble with 'microaggressions'

  • Written by: Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne

Few psychological concepts have caught on as successfully as the idea of the “microaggression”. The term gained wide currency only ten years ago, but by 2015 it had been crowned the word of the year by the Global Language Monitor. It is now rife on college campuses in the United States and increasingly beyond their ivied walls.

Microaggr...

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Let's kill the Australian identity card zombie once and for all

  • Written by: Bruce Baer Arnold, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
imagePauline Hanson's One Nation has suggested a national identity card.AAP/Sarah Motherwell

Some policies are like zombies – toxic, frightening, defiantly unkillable. They reappear, even though they aren’t useful and aren’t pretty. Pauline Hanson’s call for a national identity card is one of those zombies.

The One Nation leader...

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Sit on hands or take a stand: why athletes have always been political players

  • Written by: Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
imageNFL star Colin Kaepernick has declined to stand for the US national anthem.Robert Hanashiro/Reuters

It is sometimes said that sport ought to be separate from politics, or that politics should be removed from sport. These sentiments are well meaning – if idealistic.

Sport is variously part of government policy, international relations,...

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