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How did we get the result of the US Election so wrong?

  • Written by: Bryan Cranston, Political scientist, and PhD candidate in politics and history, Swinburne University of Technology

Two days before Election Day, I presented my predictions for the outcome of the US presidency. I was wrong. But I’m in very good company.

Almost every pollster, pundit and political scientist in the world got it wrong, too. Indeed, Politico Magazine called Donald Trump’s victory “the biggest upset in American history”.

I...

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This Remembrance Day, digital commemoration makes it impossible to forget

  • Written by: Tom Sear, PhD candidate in history, memory, media and cyber, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW Australia

On November 11, 1919 the British Empire stopped to stand in silence on Remembrance Day for the first time.

Two men usually share the credit for proposing the two minute’s silence: South African author and politician Sir Percy FitzPatrick and Australian soldier and journalist Edward Honey. In May 1919 Honey wrote a letter to the London...

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No matter where you look, the Trump presidency is worrying news

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageDonald Trump claims victory in the US election.Reuters/Mike Segar

On the day after what has arguably been one of the more troubling outcomes in American presidential history, the world’s financial markets gyrated upwards. But no-one should be under any illusion that a transition from a Democrat administration to one led by an unknown quantity...

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What's in store for Asia under President Trump

  • Written by: Nick Bisley, Executive Director of La Trobe Asia and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University

No mainstream observer expected this. Donald Trump was not supposed to win the GOP primary, let alone the White House. Yet, here we are.

This was always an election that would favour a change candidate, but conventional wisdom said that the reality TV star was not plausible in a general election. But he turned his complete lack of political...

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  1. How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
  2. Trade with China or security with the US? Australia will have to choose
  3. We've learned a lot about heatwaves, but we're still just warming up
  4. Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
  5. Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?
  6. Are we expecting too much of our junior doctors?
  7. Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI
  8. Turnbull government will seek early engagement with Trump administration
  9. US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?
  10. Trump defies expectations and takes the White House on a wave of populism
  11. President Trump will change the United States and the world, but just how remains to be seen
  12. The markets tell us President Trump is worse than Brexit
  13. Trump the demagogue looks set to rule
  14. Vital Signs: it's a Trumptastrophe
  15. Why all the super buzz about the supermoon?
  16. Why hundreds of thousands of Muslims rallied against the Jakarta governor
  17. Self control, the harms of pot, and fat genes: how the 44-year-old Dunedin study keeps on giving
  18. Election day arrives and the stakes are high, not just for the US but the world
  19. Timeline: Americans, the economy and elections
  20. Business Briefing: what Australia can learn from a Polish economist
  21. Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
  22. Radical overhaul needed to halt Earth’s sixth great extinction event
  23. The lessons we need to learn to deal with the 'creeping disaster' of drought
  24. Scientists ponder the evolutionary urge to create - but where are the women?
  25. Why we're more likely to date someone who has an ex
  26. Tougher action needed in the fight against scientific fraud
  27. Advertising is driving social media-fuelled fake news and it is here to stay
  28. Senate report calls for disallowance of Brandis's direction to Solicitor-General
  29. Inquiry opens way for changing Section 18C and the Human Rights Commission too
  30. Politics podcast: Julian Leeser on section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
  31. Equity crowdfunding requires a rethink on company structure
  32. Do we care about old people behind bars, and should we?
  33. With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation
  34. The plebiscite is dead, but the quest for marriage equality lives on
  35. Fifty standout articles in The Conversation's 2016 Yearbook
  36. Australian law needs a refresher on the science of HIV transmission
  37. Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders
  38. Explainer: why an Australian trade deal with the UK could take a decade
  39. Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change
  40. Planning for a rainy day: there's still lots to learn about Australia's flood patterns
  41. Natural disasters are affecting some of Australia's most disadvantaged communities
  42. Despite business' best efforts whistleblowers still lack protection under Australian law: new research
  43. What’s gender solidarity got to do with it? Woman shaming and Hillary Clinton
  44. Can private security companies improve responses to victims of family violence?
  45. Should family members of those with mental illness have access to their health information?
  46. Expansion is no longer the answer to improving the Australian education system
  47. Senate kills plebiscite, leaving same-sex marriage on indefinite hold
  48. Under President Trump the misinformed citizen will reign supreme
  49. Intelligence agencies to be scrutinised
  50. How Jakarta's first Chinese Indonesian governor became an easy target for radical Islamic groups

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