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The OzAsia Festival is young and confident – here are the shows to watch

  • Written by: William Peterson, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
imageThe OzAsia Festival will showcase innovative and youthful performance art from across Asia.Hiroaki Umeda's split flow and Holistic Strata. Credit Ryuichi Marui Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media

The formal launch of the OzAsia Festival’s visual arts program at the Adelaide Festival Centre earlier this month involved an encounter with the...

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Barnaby Joyce's challenge: applying the whip to the Nationals' whip

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Bizarre as it might seem, George Christensen, the rebel MP who threatened to cross the floor unless the government changed the superannuation package, is the Nationals' chief whip.

After the election Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce asked him to step up from the deputy whip position. When the vote in the partyroom came, there was no other nomination...

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FactCheck Q A: Is Australia one of the few countries worldwide to accept foreign political donations?

  • Written by: Marian Sawer, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
imageSenator Bridget McKenzie, speaking on Q&A.Q&A

The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email.


Excerpt from Q&A, September 12, 2016. Watch from 1.40.

TONY JONES:...

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Can an app help us find mindfulness in today's busy high-tech world?

  • Written by: Rafael A Calvo, Professor and Director of the Positive Computing Lab, University of Sydney
imageWe all need to seek some mindfulness.Shutterstock/dariagarnik

With the release of the latest Apple Watch this month came a new Breathe app which promises to “help you better manage everyday stress”. Giving mindful breathing a place beside the alarm clock and weather app seems to prove mindfulness has truly gone mainstream.

But modern...

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  2. Health Check: how do I know if I drink too much?
  3. The Paralympics is changing the way people perceive disabilities
  4. To cut urban sprawl, we need quality infill housing displays to win over the public
  5. The silencing of the seas: how our oceans are going quiet
  6. Australia's educational policies both embody and entrench low expectations of students
  7. Full response from a spokesperson for Doug Cameron
  8. Private resettlement models offer a way for Australia to lift its refugee intake
  9. Australia has an internationalisation, not an innovation and R D problem
  10. A degree doesn't count for South Sudanese job seekers
  11. Today's leaders could learn from Menzies, who built modern Australia without acting in haste
  12. Child sex abuse doesn't create paedophiles
  13. Gaps in education data: there are many questions for which we don't have accurate answers
  14. The great movie scenes: Antonioni's The Passenger
  15. Disruption over Macquarie Island calls for some clever Antarctic thinking
  16. 'Grotesque spectacle'? Rio has a long way to go to become more accessible
  17. Hard to see compromise on same-sex marriage plebiscite
  18. Here she comes again – how do we handle Pauline Hanson?
  19. Humans can make rockfalls from earthquakes more dangerous
  20. WA ReachTEL: Liberals stage big recovery to election winning position
  21. Community wellbeing best measured from the ground up: a Yawuru example
  22. Climate Policy’s House of Cards
  23. The strange case of Stephen Conroy's invisible resignation
  24. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on Turnbull's trip to the US
  25. Why we run Author Q As
  26. Paralympian role models: media hype, political rhetoric or the real deal?
  27. Attacks on renewable energy policy are older than the climate issue itself
  28. Lionel Shriver and the responsibilities of fiction writers
  29. The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness
  30. Callinan review largely backs Sydney lockout laws, but alcohol's role in family violence is a blind spot
  31. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's week of success
  32. Technology matters in the Paralympics, but the athlete matters more
  33. Unusual conditions: what are gigantism and acromegaly?
  34. Why are there so many species of bugs, but so few species of human?
  35. Rules of the Game: a disparate mix of ping-pong balls, paper and Pharrell Williams
  36. How Airbnb is reshaping our cities
  37. iPhone hack attack shows why we need to rein in the trade in spyware
  38. Crossroads program: should we teach children that gender identity is fluid? Here's what the research says
  39. Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims? The numbers tell a different story
  40. Insults, offence and words that wound: why language needs to be handled with care
  41. When globalisation meets entrepreneurship it can be a force for good
  42. Are we expelling too many children from Australian schools?
  43. Friday essay: science fiction's women problem
  44. Fashion police: new Queensland laws continue Australia's misguided war on bikies
  45. Explainer: how to prepare for a tsunami
  46. Bulging ear drums and hearing loss: Aboriginal kids have the highest otitis media rates in the world
  47. Drilling in the Bight: has BP learnt the right lessons from its Gulf of Mexico blowout?
  48. Kangaroo Island's choice: a new cable to the mainland, or renewable power
  49. Vital Signs: flat employment remains worrying for Australia
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