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Suspended reality: the ins and outs of Rio's Olympic bubble

  • Written by: Tracy Holmes, Doctoral Student, University of Technology Sydney
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Sport, we’re told, lies at the heart of what it means to be Australian. But what does this mean? The Conversation, in partnership with Griffith Review, is publishing a series of essays exploring the role and place of sport in Australian life.


Why would a country whose greatest export is a bikini wax be awarded the Olympic Games? Brazil...

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Should artists pay their taxes in art?

  • Written by: Usman W. Chohan, Doctoral Candidate, Policy Reform and Economics, UNSW Australia
imageThe Mexican artist Diego Rivera was an early contributor to the Pago en Especie program, which allows artists to pay tax with art. Detail of the Rivera mural El hombre en cruce de caminos (1934). Wikimedia Commons

Our new series, Making Art Pay, asks: how can artists make a living wage? Today we look at Mexico’s policy approach.

From Van Gogh...

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Has Netflix's campaign to block VPN resulted in slower subscriber growth?

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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There have been a number of suggestions to explain the slowdown in Netflix’s subscriber growth that resulted in its share price falling by 14.5%.

Netflix’s own theory is that users were put off by a price rise as Netflix phased out legacy price deals for early subscribers. Certainly the press covered the impending...

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Ditching Logan's public-private regeneration sets Queensland back on social and affordable housing

  • Written by: Hal Pawson, Associate Director - City Futures - Urban Policy and Strategy, City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW Australia
imageThe Queensland government’s interpretation of public housing transfers conflicts with that of Labor colleagues federally and in some other states.AAP/Dan Peled

Four years after its announcement, the Queensland government last week cancelled the central plank in the Logan Renewal Initiative: the overhaul of Logan’s 4,900 public housing...

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  18. There's a time to put down the smartphone, seriously!
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