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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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  5. Welcome to Lab 2.0 where computers replace experimental science
  6. Global journalism needs global ethics
  7. Let's talk about the family home ... and its exemption from the pension means test
  8. South Australia's electricity price woes are more due to gas than wind
  9. 'You'll need my fingerprint': are police allowed to search your phone?
  10. Hubble explores the Final Frontier
  11. Wealth inequality shows superannuation changes are overdue
  12. Five ways the Coalition can get innovation back on track
  13. We can't see the war for the memorials: balancing education and commemoration
  14. Teaching phonics skills alongside reading raises literacy achievement among Indigenous children
  15. There's a world of difference between sex and sexism in advertising
  16. Teenage pain often dismissed as 'growing pains', but it can impact their lives
  17. Your postcode shouldn't determine your health – or whether you're admitted to hospital
  18. There's a time to put down the smartphone, seriously!
  19. Turnbull presses premiers for quick action on post-sentencing regime for terrorism prisoners
  20. Wong wins foreign affairs in Shorten's new frontbench line up
  21. Censored Thoughts on the Fate of Turkish Democracy
  22. What animal could a democracy be? Ape, fox, lion ... how about jellyfish?
  23. Trump and the Ugliness of the Charm Defensive
  24. Plibersek moves to high profile education job in ALP reshuffle
  25. How Russian doping could lead to Rio 2016 ban
  26. Turkey’s almost coup and the need for perspective
  27. Shorten provides Kim Carr with life raft
  28. Government needs to get balance right in regulating agriculture
  29. Asia’s 'shoot-to-kill' republic? The rising body count of the Philippines’ 'war on drugs'
  30. Is the end of Zika nigh? How populations develop immunity
  31. How gross inequality and crushed hopes have fed the rise of Donald Trump
  32. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the frontbench reshuffles
  33. What we really need from innovation in Australia
  34. Calls for deradicalisation programs after Nice attack should be met with caution
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  36. Five tips to get the government started on real health reform
  37. FactCheck Q A: has the Grand Mufti of Australia condemned terrorist attacks overseas?
  38. Friday essay: secrets of the Delphic Oracle and how it speaks to us today
  39. What Australia can learn from England's plan for vocational education
  40. Italians again migrate to Australia, but experience work exploitation
  41. Turnbull orders review of local threat from lone wolf extremists
  42. Inner-city bias: the suburbs need a fair go
  43. 'Slapped cheek' syndrome: a common rash in kids, more sinister in pregnant women
  44. New cancer treatment? Scientists have programmed bacteria to kill cancer cells in mice
  45. Apple is taking its first steps towards a more comprehensive post-PC world
  46. Science by stealth: secret missions of a visual science communicator
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