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Friday essay: Judith Wright in a new light

  • Written by: Kevin Brophy, Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
imageJudith Wright: she opened our eyes to our dark history, to modernist poetry and to the beauty of our landscape.courtesy of Meredith McKinney

Everyone loves Judith Wright. Her poetry was consistently brilliant and stunningly lyrical. She opened Australian eyes in the 1940s to the possibilities of modernism in poetry, she opened our eyes to the...

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Private property developers are really driving China's debt: new research

  • Written by: James Laurenceson, Deputy Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Businesses and governments around the world are watching as China grows, innovates and extends its influence. We explore how the country got to where it is and what might be in store for its future in our series Understanding China’s Influence.


China has a debt problem. But research shows that it’s not the industrial sector or...

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Vital Signs: Melbourne Cup day rate cut less likely

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Australia

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: inflation falls in line with expectations. housing supply hits the headlines, and what if Hillary...

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Is Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' really the most unread bestseller?

  • Written by: Christopher Sheil, Visiting Fellow in History, UNSW Australia

Amid the astonishing list of accolades collected by Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the book is often also said to be one of the most unread bestsellers. Is this true, and does it matter?

No, it’s not true, or at least the person who made up the story never claimed it was. Rather, the dubious award...

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  1. FactCheck: Has the job market got so bad that 'people have stopped looking for work'?
  2. Changes to Australia's marine reserves leave our oceans unprotected
  3. Why I'm spending three months sailing right around Antarctica for science
  4. Relax, the expansion of the universe is still accelerating
  5. Grattan on Friday: Morrison opens housing affordability debate but can he control it?
  6. Phantom brands haunting our supermarket shelves as home brand in disguise
  7. Full response from a spokesman for Brendan O'Connor
  8. The problems with AT T's bid for Time Warner
  9. Cosmic coincidence: the International Space Station passes by Venus and Saturn
  10. Race to the White House - how gender, race and class are shaping the election
  11. Removal of 'double dipping' from parental leave may impact mothers' health
  12. Body-worn cameras are not a panacea for poor policing
  13. FactCheck: is wage growth at record lows?
  14. Full response from a spokesperson for Chris Bowen
  15. Do we thank science for all our prosperity?
  16. What the universe looks like when viewed with radio eyes
  17. On the difficulty of being a world citizen
  18. Pitting mozzies against mozzies to stop the spread of disease
  19. Will the Great Barrier Reef recover from its worst-ever bleaching?
  20. Made in China: three ways Chinese business has evolved from imitation to innovation
  21. Supportive housing is cheaper than chronic homelessness
  22. A new breed of post-Trump populist leaders could put the US on the path to fascism
  23. State of the Climate 2016: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
  24. Crimes of grammar and other writing misdemeanours
  25. How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids
  26. Deaths at Dreamworld theme park could lead to safety changes for amusement rides
  27. Business Briefing: being funny with customers
  28. Another prime minister, another endorsement for coal – but why?
  29. Turnbull's Newspoll ratings slump continues
  30. Life interrupted: young people need help moving forward after cancer
  31. A Trump presidency could bring a range of economic disasters
  32. New APRA guidance on lending will hurt home owners when it should be the banks
  33. Robert Manne: How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers
  34. Looking Back at Italy 1992: Internet Politics comes of age
  35. Wrapping up the fantasy - how will Game of Thrones end?
  36. What causes mind blanks during exams?
  37. 'He' vs 'she' in Australian media coverage: what the language of news tells us about gender imbalance
  38. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on The Secret Cold War - The Official History of ASIO
  39. Piketty challenges us to consider if we need to rein in wealth inequality
  40. Why sugar is so much worse for teenagers' brains
  41. Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
  42. Senate committee on ABS #CensusFail still points to basic failures on IBM's part
  43. Gateway classes: a pattern for interacting with external services
  44. How is the American President elected?
  45. Brandis mishandles a fight he should never have had
  46. How can doctors use technology to help them diagnose?
  47. Melanesia's oceans are worth US$5.4 billion but are at environmental crossroads
  48. Change Agents: Stuart Morris and Leonie Hemingway on Australia's most radical reform of local government
  49. Paid parental leave plan ignores economics of well-functioning families
  50. Blockchain: reinventing the squeaky wheel

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