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Briefcase phones, bracelet radios and other obsolete design gems

  • Written by: Miles Park, Senior Lecturer, Industrial Design, UNSW Australia

The short lifespan of many contemporary manufactured products is a familiar story. We now live in a throwaway age. But many objects that were once classified as durables are now the new consumables and often condemned to short lifespans.

These products become memorials to obsolescence, suspended in the midst of rapid and unrelenting technological...

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What can we learn from children's drawings?

  • Written by: Misty Adoniou, Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra

Children like to draw. Around the age of two they discover the sheer pleasure of making marks. They pick up any crayon, pencil or pen and they scribble.

Our toddlers are not trying to represent reality with these scribbles. It is simply a joyful exploration of their own new found power - the ability to make a permanent mark on the world.

The...

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From the Kama Sutra to Tinder: sex and love in India

  • Written by: Christopher Kremmer, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Australia

Australia’s current debate on marriage equality reminds us that sex and love are volatile subjects in every culture. So imagine writing about them in a country like India, where every issue is enmeshed in both ancient social and religious customs, and transformative technological and economic change.

In 2014, Ira Trivedi, an India-born, U.S...

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  1. Australia needs to follow the US in funding urban rail projects
  2. Better regulation of all political finance would help control foreign donations
  3. ADF set to hit more Islamic State targets under legal change
  4. Time for Australia to provide preschool education for all three year olds?
  5. Between perceptions and realities of Australian-Indonesian attitudes: a view from Indonesia
  6. A guide for how to choose therapy for a child with autism
  7. Social determinants – how class and wealth affect our health
  8. Want to improve the nation's health? Start by reducing inequalities and improving living conditions
  9. Focusing on tests and invalid assessments is the wrong way to measure teacher quality
  10. Still standing: how an ancient clock tower survived Italy's deadly earthquake
  11. Change Agents: Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee on establishing a national women's football league
  12. If the backlash against globalisation hurts China, it hurts global growth too
  13. Where to next for arts philanthropy in Australia?
  14. Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce?
  15. The 2016 Eureka Prizes showcase the best in Australian science
  16. Climate Change Authority suggests emissions trading but no new climate targets
  17. In search of authority, Turnbull can't afford to lose the industrial relations bills
  18. Turnbull's ratings slump in first Newspoll since election
  19. Adani should bow out gracefully from its Carmichael coal mine
  20. On the marriage equality plebiscite, let's not confuse free speech with a free-for-all
  21. European Commission warns multinationals as Apple ordered to pay €13 billion in tax
  22. You say tomato... why some fruits are forever doomed to be called veggies
  23. Don't give up your day job ... little has changed for individual artists
  24. Weekly Dose: Naloxone, how to save a life from opioid overdose
  25. Politics podcast: Fred Smith on The Dust of Uruzgan
  26. Do moves against Hangzhou G20 'rumours' help show China at its best or worst?
  27. Section 18C is too broad and too vague, and should be repealed
  28. Where's your data? It's not actually in the cloud, it's sitting in a data centre
  29. What will school education look like by 2020?
  30. What are the main challenges facing teacher education in Australia?
  31. Tasmanian devils are evolving rapidly to fight their deadly cancer
  32. Victoria bans fracking, but leaves questions over gas supply
  33. Dear politicians, please don't endanger world-leading solar research by cutting ARENA
  34. Should we be forcing people with severe mental illness to have treatment they don't want?
  35. Why policy differences continue to exist despite globalisation's evolution
  36. Business Briefing: hack-proof, how business can stay ahead in cybersecurity
  37. What is an artistic director, and why does the Sydney Theatre Company need one?
  38. Malcolm Turnbull surrounded by trouble – left, right and centre
  39. An official welcome to the Anthropocene epoch – but who gets to decide it's here?
  40. After Operation Spicer, what more needs to be done to clean up political donations in NSW?
  41. Cutting ARENA would devastate clean energy research
  42. Here's why your body makes you feel like crap when you're sick
  43. FactCheck Q A: is a week's worth of Newstart equal to what a politician can claim for one night in Canberra?
  44. Full response from Kon Karapanagiotidis
  45. The failed history of tobacco harm reduction
  46. 'Welcoming, but not affirming': being gay and Christian
  47. The rise of the Fitbit kids: a good move or a step too far?
  48. Tampon versus pad: why more women still choose the latter to manage periods
  49. Young people are not after an easy ride, just job security
  50. Victorian Labor man favourite to replace George Wright as ALP national secretary

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The Rise of Digital Marketplaces in the Australian Trade Sector

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GRC Consulting and Cyber Security Consulting for Businesses

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