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All the Olympics are a stage, and all the athletes merely players: the rich history of the modern Games

  • Written by Tim Olds, Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia

The Olympics transfix us. Six in every ten people in the world – including both you, dear reader, and me – watched the London 2012 Olympics. Use of the word Olympics increased in relative frequency 3,300% between 1924 and 1984. But what are the Olympics to us, how are we to read them socially and politically?

The Olympic Games are a...

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Cabinet battle over Rudd a test for Foreign Minister Bishop

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

The strength of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will be tested on Thursday when she proposes the government should nominate Kevin Rudd to run for secretary-general of the United Nations.

Bishop faces some high profile opponents of the nomination, most notably Treasurer Scott Morrison and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

It also appears Prime...

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Tasmanian Senate result: 5 Labor, 4 Liberals, 2 Greens, 1 Lambie

  • Written by Adrian Beaumont, PhD Student, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

Today the “Button” was pressed to distribute preferences for the Tasmanian Senate. On final primary votes, Labor had 4.37 quotas, the Liberals 4.23, the Greens 1.45, Jacqui Lambie 1.08 and One Nation 0.33. This was further complicated by substantial below the line votes for Labor’s No. 6 candidate, Lisa Singh, and the Liberals'...

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Dopey policy: is the IOC fit for purpose?

  • Written by Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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The scandal of systematic doping orchestrated by Russian government agencies and the Russian anti-doping body (RUSADA), involving the disposal of thousands of biological samples or their replacement with “clean” urine, has been widely reported.

For those unfamiliar with the global politics of sport and the ubiquity...

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  1. Pokécology: people will never put down their phones, but games can get them focused on nature
  2. Why we're making no progress tackling the exploitation of migrant workers
  3. Weekly Dose: fentanyl, the anaesthetic that may have been used as a chemical weapon on Chechen rebels
  4. The backlash against open plan offices: segmented space
  5. Data gaps mean Indigenous incarceration rates may be even worse than we thought
  6. Asia’s ineffective diplomacy makes life difficult for Australia
  7. CCTV: who can watch whom under the law?
  8. How do you know you're not living in a computer simulation?
  9. When terror goes viral it's up to us to prevent chaos
  10. Ten facts you need to know about the chicken and eggs on your table
  11. Is the tropical Indian Ocean to blame for southern Australia's wet winter?
  12. More scrutiny needed on commissions paid to life insurance advisers
  13. Business Briefing: what to do about low incomes
  14. What it means when kids walk on their toes
  15. Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy care
  16. Redetermining paradigmatic norms: is there any hope for academic writing?
  17. Evidence of NT detention centre abuse was there for all to see
  18. Backstories, Intimacies and the Ghostbusters Dilemma
  19. Is it back to the future for human origins science or just a case of science media misleading us again?
  20. Four Corners: why did the two previous investigations have no impact on changing this abuse?
  21. In a glass clearly: Singapore and Australia compared
  22. Morrison flags opposition to nominating Rudd for UN post
  23. Land carbon storage swelled in the Little Ice Age, which bodes ill for the future
  24. Can a corpulent Woolies discard its history and fight off Aldi?
  25. Violent video games and real violence: there's a link but it's not so simple
  26. Turkey coup: why have teachers and academics been targeted?
  27. Did sex drive mammal evolution? How one species can become two
  28. Reading French literature in a time of terror
  29. Four Corners: is using restraints akin to torture?
  30. Save or salvage: the real role administrators play in troubled businesses
  31. Will post-sentence detention of convicted terrorists make Australia any safer?
  32. The power of rewards and why we seek them out
  33. Australia is missing out on tax revenue from gas projects
  34. Is hip dysplasia in my newborn something to worry about?
  35. Who should be responsible for brain injuries in sport?
  36. Academics do want to engage with business, but need more support
  37. Suspended reality: the ins and outs of Rio's Olympic bubble
  38. Should artists pay their taxes in art?
  39. Has Netflix's campaign to block VPN resulted in slower subscriber growth?
  40. Ditching Logan's public-private regeneration sets Queensland back on social and affordable housing
  41. A new twist on an old fairytale as a daughter dances away from the patriarchy
  42. Should Russian athletes really be banned from competing in the Rio Olympics?
  43. The off-topic Conversation #103
  44. Health Check: what your pee and poo colour says about your health
  45. Welcome to Lab 2.0 where computers replace experimental science
  46. Global journalism needs global ethics
  47. Let's talk about the family home ... and its exemption from the pension means test
  48. South Australia's electricity price woes are more due to gas than wind
  49. 'You'll need my fingerprint': are police allowed to search your phone?
  50. Hubble explores the Final Frontier
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