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Politics podcast: Fred Smith on The Dust of Uruzgan

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imagePat Hutchens/TC

Fred Smith is no ordinary Australian diplomat. In postings served in the Uruzgan Province of Afghanistan, he built relationships with tribal leaders while continuing his side-career as a folk musician.

Smith, who has written about his experiences in a book, The Dust of Uruzgan, tells Michelle Grattan for the first three or four...

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Do moves against Hangzhou G20 'rumours' help show China at its best or worst?

  • Written by: Meg Jing Zeng, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
imageChinese are starting to question government control of the terms of public debate, as conveyed by this propoganda banner in Hangzhou in 2010.Philip Roeland, CC BY-NC-ND

While Hangzhou has begun counting down to the arrival of G20 delegates from around the world, #g20blue – a hashtag locals use to post about the smog-free sky – is...

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Section 18C is too broad and too vague, and should be repealed

  • Written by: Lorraine Finlay, Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University
imageCory Bernardi is set to introduce a private member's bill to reform Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.AAP/Paul Miller

Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act continues to create controversy. The section makes unlawful any act reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or group of people because of...

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Where's your data? It's not actually in the cloud, it's sitting in a data centre

  • Written by: Brett Neilson, Professor of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
imageThe new Equinix SY4 data centre in Alexandria sure doesn't look like a cloud from the outside.Equinix

Without data centres, today’s world stops. Flights are grounded, Wall Street closes, and the internet grinds to a halt. Yet despite their emergence as nerve centres of the global economy, data centres have drawn almost no attention in debates...

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  2. What are the main challenges facing teacher education in Australia?
  3. Tasmanian devils are evolving rapidly to fight their deadly cancer
  4. Victoria bans fracking, but leaves questions over gas supply
  5. Dear politicians, please don't endanger world-leading solar research by cutting ARENA
  6. Should we be forcing people with severe mental illness to have treatment they don't want?
  7. Why policy differences continue to exist despite globalisation's evolution
  8. Business Briefing: hack-proof, how business can stay ahead in cybersecurity
  9. What is an artistic director, and why does the Sydney Theatre Company need one?
  10. Malcolm Turnbull surrounded by trouble – left, right and centre
  11. An official welcome to the Anthropocene epoch – but who gets to decide it's here?
  12. After Operation Spicer, what more needs to be done to clean up political donations in NSW?
  13. Cutting ARENA would devastate clean energy research
  14. Here's why your body makes you feel like crap when you're sick
  15. FactCheck Q A: is a week's worth of Newstart equal to what a politician can claim for one night in Canberra?
  16. Full response from Kon Karapanagiotidis
  17. The failed history of tobacco harm reduction
  18. 'Welcoming, but not affirming': being gay and Christian
  19. The rise of the Fitbit kids: a good move or a step too far?
  20. Tampon versus pad: why more women still choose the latter to manage periods
  21. Young people are not after an easy ride, just job security
  22. Victorian Labor man favourite to replace George Wright as ALP national secretary
  23. Since when were liberals authoritarian wowsers? Mike Baird exposes today's Liberal Party confusion
  24. The off-topic Conversation #106
  25. The least-skilled workers are the losers in globalisation
  26. Want to improve NAPLAN scores? Teach children philosophy
  27. Sequins and symphonies: how opera ran away with the circus
  28. Is Australia really being flooded by new killer drugs?
  29. Marriage 'inequality' is a threat to religious freedom – and it is probably unconstitutional
  30. Coastal councils are already adapting to rising seas – we've built a website to help
  31. Are things really as bad as the ABC Four Corners' Cyber War documentary makes out?
  32. The Australian government needs to be more open about the cyber threat from China
  33. Full response from a spokesperson for Mitch Fifield
  34. FactCheck Q A: what has the Children’s eSafety Commissioner done in its first year to tackle cyberbullying?
  35. From execrable to memorable: Ben Lerner’s essay on the hatred of poetry
  36. Estimating the 'cost' of fuel tax credits is a tricky business
  37. Politics podcast: Bob Brown on Malcolm Turnbull and the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  38. Bob Brown supports marriage plebiscite as a last resort
  39. Kids are more susceptible to brain injury, and concussion has implications beyond what we thought
  40. From bonnets to fez to burkinis, clothing has long made us uneasy
  41. Australian communities are fighting food waste with circular economies
  42. Health Check: what can you eat to help ease 'morning' sickness in pregnancy?
  43. Face the facts: populism is here to stay
  44. The plug and play city: how shipping containers are changing infrastructure
  45. How to tell if your boss is a psychopath – and what to do about it
  46. Disunity is death? The demise of the CLP government in the Northern Territory
  47. It's not just the economy, stupid; it's whether the economy is fair
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