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Here's looking at: Cindy Sherman 'Head Shots'

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageCindy Sherman was the subject, costume designer, make-up artist and photographer for the large-scale images showcased in a new retrospective. Detail: Untitled #466. Image courtesy of Cindy Sherman and Metro Pictures, New York

What do William Shakespeare, Cindy Sherman, and the Modern Family TV series all have in common?

They all make art about the...

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We must do more to help people with intellectual impairments stay out of prison

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imagePeople with cognitive and psychiatric impairments are over-represented in the prison system.Shutterstock

Laws and policies often perpetrate and deepen the disadvantage and exclusion of vulnerable groups, especially prisoners.

Here’s just one practical example. Last week I visited someone in the new Darwin Correctional Precinct, which is now...

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Nova Peris quits parliament after single term

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

High-profile Indigenous Labor senator Nova Peris is quitting after just one term in parliament.

Peris was Julia Gillard’s “captain’s pick” to be Labor’s Northern Territory Senate candidate for the 2013 election. This forced out then-Labor senator Trish Crossin, who was bitter about her treatment, and caused a major...

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  27. Move over suburbia, Green Square offers new norm for urban living
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  43. Labor seizes on Treasury and Finance secretaries' warning about revenue
  44. Infographic: PEFO 2016 at a glance
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