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We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals

  • Written by: Julian Savulescu, Sir Louis Matheson Distinguishing Visiting Professor at Monash University, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
imageDrug analysis would be a safe, ethical and cost-effective way to reduce harm to young people.Shutterstock

At the Stereosonic festival last year, Sylvia Choi died after consuming a contaminated ecstasy tablet. Unfortunately Sylvia’s narrative is all too familiar – a bright future extinguished at a music festival that will be remembered...

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Australia is locking up too many women but the UK offers a blueprint for a radical new approach

  • Written by: Ruth McCausland, Research Fellow, UNSW Australia
imageWhile men still make up the majority of prisoners in Australia, the increase in the incarceration rate for women is significantly greater than that for men.www.JobsForFelonsHub.com Flickr, CC BY-SA

The number of women in prison in Australia has increased dramatically over the past decade. While men still make up the majority of prisoners, the...

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Guide to the classics: Ovid's Metamorphoses and reading rape

  • Written by: Marguerite Johnson, Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classical Languages, University of Newcastle
imageOne of the most famous attempted rapes in literature: the nymph Daphne turns into a tree to escape the god Apollo. Apollo chasing Daphne, Cornelis de Vos, 1630.

Ovid’s Metamorphoses (AD 3-8) was not originally as controversial as his other poetic works. But as centuries have passed, its notoriety has increased. Recent calls to provide trigger...

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Confused? Don't worry because that can be a good thing

  • Written by: Jason M Lodge, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education & ARC-SRI Science of Learning Research Centre, University of Melbourne
imageDon't be confused for too long.Flickr/Tactical Technology, CC BY-SA

Confusion is a common aspect of our lives but it can be useful and perhaps even necessary, particularly when we are trying to learn something.

Confusion is typically experienced when we are confronted with new information. It is particularly likely to happen when the information we...

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  1. People are 'blind' to plants, and that's bad news for conservation
  2. Australian Renewable Energy Agency saved but with reduced funding – experts react
  3. What is the role of a teacher?
  4. Gay Liberal senator denounces marriage plebiscite
  5. Australia's housing affordability problem explained in five historical steps
  6. Risky business: how companies are getting smart about climate change
  7. Government gets a deal for $6.3 billion in savings to pass parliament
  8. Here's why we need nurse-resident ratios in aged care homes
  9. Dickensian approach to residential tenants lingers in Australian law
  10. Australia's Health 2016 report card: experts respond
  11. Young people worldwide fear a lack of economic opportunities – it's easy to see why
  12. LNP abandons hope of challenging Herbert result
  13. Chris Mitchell writes a love letter to himself
  14. The democratic paradox
  15. Political meddling in teacher education needs to stop
  16. Free speech is at risk in Australia – and it's not from Section 18C
  17. Get out of my face! We're more antisocial in a shared office space
  18. Plebiscite looks set to fail, but the push for same-sex marriage will not
  19. Finding momentary pleasure: how viewing art can help people with dementia
  20. What is physical activity in early childhood, and is it really that important?
  21. Australia to embrace the new era of gravitational wave astronomy
  22. Climate action is the key to Australia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  23. Plebiscite trouble wherever Malcolm Turnbull looks
  24. Netflix likely to ignore 50% of customers willing to pay a premium for US content
  25. Senate to inquire into Nauru and Manus Island
  26. On the life of an adjective
  27. Fifteen years on from 9/11, we calculated the true cost to business
  28. When political self-interest decides donations rules, what chance reform in the public interest?
  29. Health Check: can vitamins supplement a poor diet?
  30. The off-topic Conversation #107
  31. Blame game as government forced to filibuster to fill Senate work gap
  32. Why moving out public housing tenants is a tragedy for Millers Point and for Sydney
  33. Retraction: why we removed an article about Chinese donations
  34. Phew! New Urban Agenda clears last hurdle before Habitat III
  35. Are refugee and migrant diasporas the missing piece of the development puzzle?
  36. Soft power and the institutionalisation of influence
  37. Road user charging belongs on the political agenda as the best answer for congestion management
  38. Free speech and the media are too often in a marriage of convenience
  39. Explainer: what is free speech?
  40. A history of failed reform: why Australia needs a banking royal commission
  41. To really tackle corporate tax evasion we need a public register
  42. Here’s looking at: Mike Parr’s Jackson Pollock the Female
  43. How does ice use affect families and what can they do?
  44. Ancient life in Greenland and the search for life on Mars
  45. Do arts teachers have to be artists?
  46. The fossil fuel divestment game is getting bigger, thanks to the smaller players
  47. What we have in common with corals and their unexplored microbial world
  48. Boyer Lectures: Episode 2 – Give every child the best start
  49. Why Australia needs a Chief Artist
  50. The tragedy of Eaten Fish, the award-winning cartoonist on Manus Island

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