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What are the great Australian plays? Refining our theatre canon

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
imageThe Theatre Royal in Hobart, Australia's oldest continuously operating theatre. Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office/Flickr, CC BY-NC

You could say that a canonical play is one where you’re the problem if you don’t like it. The formula critical judgement + physical repetition = classic fixes its value ahead of time. A canonical play is...

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How 'Alfred' the whale lost its teeth to become a giant filter feeder

  • Written by: Felix Georg Marx, Post doctoral research fellow in evolutionary biology, Monash University
imageAlfred the aetiocetid had teeth but needed a better way to capture his tiny prey.Carl Buell.

Baleen whales, such as the gigantic 30m-long blue whale, are the largest animals that have ever lived on this planet. They even beat the largest of the dinosaurs. But, ironically, the secret to their success lies in their taste for tiny prey.

Living whales...

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Medicare logo case shows the urgent need to update Australia's IP laws

  • Written by: Kathy Bowrey, Professor in Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, UNSW, UNSW Australia
imageShould the government be able to use intellectual property laws to control who can criticise its health policies by using the Medicare logo?AAP/Joel Carrett

The federal government has threatened Sydney man Mark Rogers with legal action over use of the Medicare logo on his “Save Medicare” website. In response to publicity generated by a G...

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Will the latest electricity review bring climate and energy policy together at last?

  • Written by: Dylan McConnell, Researcher at the Australian German Climate and Energy College & the Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne
imageAustralia's National Electricity Market brings power to millions of people. Power image from www.shutterstock.com

The Australian government is reviewing our electricity market to make sure it can provide secure and reliable power in a rapidly changing world. Faced with the rise of renewable energy and limits on carbon pollution, The Conversation...

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  1. As Australian shipping grows, how can we avoid collisions with marine animals?
  2. Women don't always get what they want from labiaplasty
  3. In a win for consumers, ACCC rules against the banks' actions against Apple Pay
  4. Turnbull's water gesture satisfies Xenophon
  5. ACCC rejects the banks colluding to bargain on Apple Pay
  6. Australian schools continue to fall behind other countries in maths and science
  7. New inquiry into conduct of George Brandis
  8. Paleopups and paleopussies: is a paleodiet for your pet a step too far?
  9. Ipsos: are the Greens really at 16%?
  10. From the Gold Coast to Geelong: how cities are shaping visions of their futures
  11. How tribal thinking has left us in a post-truth world
  12. What the government can learn from the backpacker tax debacle
  13. A woman in charge: Susan Kiefel to become chief justice of the High Court
  14. It's not just about Melbourne: why we need a national approach to 'thunderstorm asthma'
  15. Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?
  16. Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights
  17. Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument
  18. Scorsese's Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
  19. Domestic violence also has an economic penalty – we need to tackle it
  20. How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?
  21. 'It's your fault you got cancer': the blame game that doesn't help anyone
  22. Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading
  23. Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
  24. Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General
  25. How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
  26. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  27. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  28. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
  29. Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study
  30. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
  31. Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
  32. Health Check: why men wake up with erections
  33. Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
  34. Comments on mobile
  35. A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
  36. Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate
  37. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  38. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  39. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
  40. Why music is not lost
  41. The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study
  42. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  43. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  44. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
  45. Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want
  46. A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
  47. New model for school funding that won't break the budget
  48. Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal
  49. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
  50. I used to be 'neoliberal', but I'm 'hard left' now

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