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As a writer-musician, Leonard Cohen was a one-off

  • Written by: David McCooey, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
imageLeonard Cohen in 2008, just before he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Just weeks after Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, that other great literary songwriter, Leonard Cohen, has died at the age of 82. When Dylan’s Nobel was announced, a number of commentators claimed that Cohen would...

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Goodbye Leonard, you brought us so much light

  • Written by: Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
imageLeonard Cohen in 2012 accepting an award for his song lyrics.Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters

Leonard Cohen has died, and the lights have gone out all around the world. His death shouldn’t have come as any surprise: as he wrote to his muse Marianne, just weeks ago,

we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you...

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Trump's win shows how vital the arts and humanities are

  • Written by: Julianne Schultz, Founding Editor of Griffith REVIEW; Professor, Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research, Griffith University
imageA visitor at London's Royal Academy contemplates Blue Poles, a work that captures the chaos and creativity of the 20th century.Andy Rain/EPA

As one of the commentators in the New York Times wrote yesterday in relation to the way the polls had missed the sentiment of the American people, notwithstanding that Hillary Clinton did win the popular...

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On a bad day, some blue sky..

  • Written by: Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Deakin University

It’s a funny way that I make my living.

I spend anything up to 10 hours a day sitting at a desk talking to people with problems. I work in a practice which has set out to develop a culture of sharing triumphs, disasters and frustrations alike within the team. On the whole, I love my work, delighting in the constantly unfolding panorama of...

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  2. What might a Trump presidency mean for Muslims and the Muslim world?
  3. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia's reaction to the Trump victory
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  5. President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive
  6. Trickle down Trump-economics is not the fiscal policy the world needs
  7. Australia should assume Trump won't step back from his campaign commitments
  8. The Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for the region
  9. Friday essay: Camarade – The Earth
  10. Swingers' hookup program can find the right match for endangered species
  11. Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand
  12. Lovability: restoring liveability’s human face
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  14. Grattan on Friday: As one businessman to another…Malcolm and Donald begin to talk
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  17. Race to the White House – President-elect Donald J Trump
  18. Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow
  19. Brandis scraps direction to Solicitor-General
  20. The third global bleaching event took its toll on Western Australia's super-corals
  21. There is no female president this time, and women are divided about it
  22. Creating a healthy company requires more than good pay incentives
  23. Skin patches instead of needles: can nanotechnology vaccinate the world?
  24. Trump can kill trade deals but he can't kill globalisation
  25. How did we get the result of the US Election so wrong?
  26. This Remembrance Day, digital commemoration makes it impossible to forget
  27. No matter where you look, the Trump presidency is worrying news
  28. What's in store for Asia under President Trump
  29. How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
  30. Trade with China or security with the US? Australia will have to choose
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  32. Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
  33. Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?
  34. Are we expecting too much of our junior doctors?
  35. Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI
  36. Turnbull government will seek early engagement with Trump administration
  37. US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?
  38. Trump defies expectations and takes the White House on a wave of populism
  39. President Trump will change the United States and the world, but just how remains to be seen
  40. The markets tell us President Trump is worse than Brexit
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