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Shorten offers deal on super while hardening stand on plebiscite

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

Bill Shorten has proposed specific changes to the budget’s controversial superannuation reforms, which have been under attack from the conservatives in the Coalition ranks.

Addressing the National Press Club, Shorten said the “retrospective” element of the government’s policy – which has upset critics – should be...

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Culture, free speech and celebrating Mao downunder

  • Written by: Chongyi Feng, Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney
imageA paramilitary policeman stands guard under a giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen gate in Beijing. Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Mao Zedong, a master in using culture as a tool of political propaganda, famously declared at the Chinese Communist base camp of Yan’an in May 1942 that:

In the world today, all literature and art belong to...

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Weekly Dose: flibanserin, the drug that gives women one extra sexually satisfying experience every two months

  • Written by: Jayne Lucke, Professor & Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
imageAddyi (flibanserin) is far from a pink viagra. Jinx!/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug flibanserin (sold under the brand name Addyi) for the treatment of women with hypo-active sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in August 2015.

Australia hasn’t followed suit, though flibanserin is available...

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Is that porn your child is watching online? How do you know?

  • Written by: Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University
imageChildren can easily be exposed to porn online.Shutterstock/bikeriderlondon

Adult sexual content and culture has woven itself seamlessly into the fabric of the internet. Some of it is subtle, and some not so subtle, but there is now a wealth of dedicated porn websites available and plenty of demand to view the content.

One of the most popular is...

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