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What is an artistic director, and why does the Sydney Theatre Company need one?

  • Written by: John Severn, Sessional lecturer, Theatre Studies, UNSW Australia
imageWife and husband duo Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton were co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company for five years. Upton was solo director for a further two. AAP

Jonathan Church’s sudden departure from the Sydney Theatre Company after nine months as Artistic Director gives cultural commentators an excuse to indulge in the...

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Malcolm Turnbull surrounded by trouble – left, right and centre

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

The government is “approaching this term with optimism”, according to the governor-general’s speech opening parliament. This is good to hear, because a more pessimistic character than Malcolm Turnbull surveying the outlook might be in deep gloom.

Labor, the Greens and some other crossbenchers are muscling up against the same-sex...

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An official welcome to the Anthropocene epoch – but who gets to decide it's here?

  • Written by: Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
imageHello humans.US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons

It’s literally epoch-defining news. A group of experts tasked with considering the question of whether we have officially entered the Anthropocene – the geological age characterised by humans' influence on the planet – has delivered its answer: yes.

The British-led Working...

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After Operation Spicer, what more needs to be done to clean up political donations in NSW?

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
imageFormer police minister Mike Gallacher is one of a number of current and former MPs to be caught up in Operation Spicer.AAP/Joel Carrett

The New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has handed down its report on illegal political donations from property developers during the 2011 state election, dubbed Operation Spicer.

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