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Reading three great southern lands: from the outback to the pampa and the karoo

  • Written by: James Halford, PhD candidate in Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
imageThe global South has more in common than just proximity – our cultural heritage links our literature. Chris Goldberg

What do the literatures of Argentina, Australia, and South Africa have in common and what might be gained by thinking about them collectively as “literatures of the South?”

Historians have traced parallels...

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Health Check: which fruits are healthier, and in what form?

  • Written by: Senaka Ranadheera, Early Career Research Fellow, Advanced Food Systems Research Unit, College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University
imageIs there one type of fruit that's more nutritious?Tiago Faifa/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

Most of us know eating fruit daily is a great way to try to stay healthy, with the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating encouraging us to eat two serves a day. This is because they are relatively low in energy content and rich in fibre, antioxidants and some...

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It’s a fallacy that all Australians have access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene

  • Written by: Nina Lansbury Hall, Sustainable Water Program Manager, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
imageClean water can help to break the link between poor hygiene and eye diseases such as trachoma.Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA)

Nations are gathering in New York this week to discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to improve health, wealth and well-being for countries both rich and poor.

As a developed...

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If it needs it, Australia can draw on significant experience of minority government

  • Written by: Kate Crowley, Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
imageAustralia is fortunate to have had the recent Labor minority government to draw lessons from.AAP/Lukas Coch

Though Malcolm Turnbull has declared victory in the 2016 election race, it remains unclear whether he will form a majority or minority government.

Australia has a wealth of experience of minority government. While it has only had one national...

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  1. Three reasons free trade has become a political football
  2. Explainer: who are the independents and minor parties in the lower house?
  3. Beating heart of the Crab Nebula
  4. Greening cities makes for safer neighbourhoods
  5. Coalition scrapes through but Turnbull needs to alter course
  6. Labor has cause for hope – and some concern – in this election loss
  7. Perfect storm of events could trigger the next financial crisis
  8. How to keep more girls in IT at schools if we're to close the gender gap
  9. Understanding the NDIS: the challenges disability service providers face in a market-based system
  10. Australian GPs are offered guidelines not relevant to their patients, and they often ignore them
  11. How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash
  12. More parents are choosing to home school their children – why?
  13. Turnbull should not be spooked by Liberal conservatives
  14. Election 2016: what will a re-elected Coalition government mean for key policy areas?
  15. State of the states: what were the issues and seats that mattered in Australia's state and territories?
  16. Remind me again, what did the Coalition promise during the election campaign?
  17. Turnbull celebrates victory after Shorten concedes defeat
  18. Coalition very likely to win majority after taking lead in 76 seats
  19. Politics podcast: Wayne Swan on Labor's next moves
  20. What other industries can learn from the failures of greyhound racing
  21. Patchwork, ironic, serious and kitsch: the best of the Archibald finalists
  22. The drugs made me do it: can prescription side-effects be an excuse for crime?
  23. Turnbull wins more crossbench support as government's numbers still to be finalised
  24. How Australia can capitalise on Chinese tourism
  25. Election 2016 reveals the end of the rusted-on voter and the death of the two-party system
  26. What went wrong at Aurukun School?
  27. Greyhound racing ban: NSW is looking at the industry from the dogs' point of view
  28. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the uncertain election outcome
  29. Three reasons why we should have seen Labor's 'Medicare SMS' coming
  30. A marine heatwave has wiped out a swathe of WA's undersea kelp forest
  31. Innovation culture has evolved beyond Turnbull's mantra
  32. UK and EU both need major democratic reform to survive Brexit fallout
  33. Robots don't just take jobs, they can help a new business grow
  34. Understanding the NDIS: the scheme does not yet address all the needs of Indigenous people with disabilities
  35. Why Antarctica depends on Australia and China's alliance
  36. Vital Signs: goodbye AAA Australia?
  37. Keating says Howard's Iraq war commitment brought the 'spectre of terrorism' to Australia
  38. Grattan on Friday: Coalition gets nasty reminder debt and deficit are important, like it once said
  39. When Australia goes to war, public trust depends on better oversight
  40. Electronic voting may be risky, but what about vote counting?
  41. Friday essay: the voyage of Nicolas Baudin and 'art in the service of science'
  42. Has New Zealand lost its way in tobacco control?
  43. Katter backs Turnbull, as credit agency puts Australia on notice
  44. Now you're laughing: the unhappy state of Australia's political satire
  45. One Nation, Climate Denial and those Jewish Bankers
  46. Chilcot’s lessons for Australia
  47. News of Zika vaccine might be reassuring, but it's too late for Rio, and do we really need it anyway?
  48. Australia must act now to secure economic ties with a rising Indonesia
  49. Australia could be about to lose its AAA rating, and here's why
  50. Please don’t explain: Hanson 2.0 and the war on experts

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