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Back to the future: has the AFL lost its community?

  • Written by: Jonathan West, Emertius Professor, University of Tasmania
imageWhichever way you look at it, Australian rules football makes a clear difference for the better in people’s lives.AAP/Joe Castro

Sport, we’re told, lies at the heart of what it means to be Australian. But what in reality does this mean? The Conversation, in partnership with Griffith Review, is publishing a series of essays exploring the...

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The rise of citizen science is great news for our native wildlife

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University

Australia is renowned for its iconic wildlife. A bilby digging for food in the desert on a moonlit night, a dinosaur-like cassowary disappearing into the shadows of the rainforest, or a platypus diving for yabbies in a farm dam. But such images, though evocative, are rarely seen by most Australians.

As mammalogist Hedley Finlayson wrote in 1935:

The...

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What makes a winning water polo shot?

  • Written by: Jonathan Freeston, Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Medal games in water polo are notoriously close affairs, which are often decided by a single shot. The average margin in gold medal games across the last four Olympics is 3.5 goals in men’s competition and 1.5 goals in women’s competition.

With goals such a valuable commodity, what does it take to produce a winning water polo shot?...

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The Sydney Opera House upgrade deserves a single guiding vision

  • Written by: Gerard Reinmuth, Professor of Practice, University of Technology Sydney
imageDesign for upgrades to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. Courtesy Sydney Opera HouseimageSydney Opera House designer Jørn Utzon in 2000.Ole Haupt/Wikimedia

In the recently revealed plans for a major upgrade of the Sydney Opera House we reach a key moment in the history of the House. Just as the incredible achievement of the Opera House said so...

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  11. Our planet is heating - the empirical evidence
  12. Cast adrift: Australia risks its international standing over asylum-seeker policies
  13. Violence is normal is Brazil, as visitors to Rio 2016 are finding out
  14. Do film adaptations boost Australian movies at the box office?
  15. Rethinking how we represent transgender children in the media
  16. Could Section 18C protect 'angry white males' like David Leyonhjelm?
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