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How script supervisors keep film continuity - and coffee cups and cigarettes

  • Written by: Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Directing, Department of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University
How script supervisors keep film continuity - and coffee cups and cigarettesIMDB

You’ve seen the Game of Thrones scene with Jon and Daenerys where somehow a Starbucks coffee cup made it into the frame? Or maybe the one in Star Wars where the Stormtrooper misjudges the height of a Death Star doorway and, unnoticed by anyone else, smashes their head?

You may have even noticed bullet holes on the walls before anyone...

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Housing crisis? What crisis? How politicians talk about housing and why it matters

  • Written by: Iain White, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato

Politicians in many countries around the world claim to be experiencing a “housing crisis”. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause?

These are critical questions. Exploring them can help us understand why much of the evidence from research is not carried through into political discourse and policy.

In the wake...

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Bridget McKenzie falls – but for the lesser of her political sins

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Bridget McKenzie falls – but for the lesser of her political sinsAAP/Mick Tsikas

Agriculture Minister and Nationals deputy leader Bridget McKenzie has finally fallen on her sword, after intense pressure on her to limit the government’s damage from the sports rorts affair ahead of parliament resuming this week.

But McKenzie has been pushed out not for rorting the sports grants program for political advantage...

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why the McKenzie scandal might not count for a hill of beans

  • Written by: Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
why the McKenzie scandal might not count for a hill of beansAAP/Mick Tsikas

The sports rorts scandal has evoked in some commentators considerable nostalgia. There was a time, we are assured, when politics was governed by genuine integrity. Andrew Peacock offered John Gorton his resignation after his wife appeared in an ad spruiking bedsheets. Mick Young had to step aside from the Hawke ministry over a...

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  2. how worried should I be about the shortage of face masks? Or can I just use a scarf?
  3. Disaster hits small business in many ways. We need a national strategy to help them adapt
  4. Yes, there's merit in quarantining people on Christmas Island to prevent the spread of coronavirus
  5. To address the ecological crisis, Aboriginal peoples must be restored as custodians of Country
  6. How hard is it to scramble Rubik’s Cube?
  7. With four days remaining, Sanders leads narrowly in Iowa, but Biden leads nationally
  8. Proposed Queensland laws silencing charities risk breaching the Constitution
  9. 'Futuring' can help us survive the climate crisis. And guess what? You're a futurist too
  10. Heat kills. We need consistency in the way we measure these deaths
  11. Media 'impartiality' on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous
  12. We have the vaccine for climate disinformation – let's use it
  13. How does bushfire smoke affect our health? 6 things you need to know
  14. Friday essay: Beethoven - an icon at risk of overexposure?
  15. we've observed a spinning star that drags the very fabric of space and time
  16. Want to send your child to a school outside your zone? This system could give you the choice
  17. As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis
  18. how do voices come out of our mouths?
  19. The uncomfortable truth about super: there's no ‘one-size-fits-all’ contribution
  20. Coronavirus adds to Scott Morrison's many woes
  21. The 'sports rorts' affair shows the government misunderstands the role of the public service
  22. Will my child get coronavirus at school? Here's some perspective for Aussie parents
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  25. Don't believe the myths – taxing sugary drinks makes us drink less of it
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  27. Trump's Middle East 'vision' is a disaster that will only make things worse
  28. The Australian government needs to step up its fight to free Kylie Moore-Gilbert from prison in Iran
  29. Kids learn best when you add a problem-solving boost to ‘back-to-basics’ instruction
  30. Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment
  31. Building standards give us false hope. There's no such thing as a fireproof house
  32. How the term 'Anthropocene' jumped from geoscience to hashtags
  33. Bees learn better when they can explore. Humans might work the same way
  34. After 40 years of Australian-Chinese sister cities, how are they faring?
  35. Politicians not bureaucrats are the ones in touch, Morrison claims in sports affair
  36. Fear spreads easily. That's what gives the Wuhan coronavirus economic impact
  37. Comma again? Philip Pullman's Oxford comma rage doesn't go far enough
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  39. Humans are good at thinking their way out of problems – but climate change is outfoxing us
  40. Scott Morrison's 'resilience' speech overshadowed as McKenzie crisis deepens
  41. The US presidential primaries are arcane, complex and unrepresentative. So why do Americans still vote this way?
  42. Gwyneth Paltrow’s The Goop Lab whitewashes traditional health therapies for profit
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