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The off-topic Conversation #85

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Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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The long and the short of it: eight reasons why short men come up short

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imageThe long and the short of it is: it sucks to be short if you're a manfrom www.shutterstock.com.au

Spurned by women, more likely to end up in jail, doomed to earn less, destined to languish in poorly paid jobs, plagued by feelings of inferiority and coming up short where coming up matters most, you’d think life had dealt the short straw to...

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Five ways a Trump presidency would impact Australia – for the worse

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imageA Trump presidency may be the right time for Australia to distance itself from the US.Reuters/Joe Skipper

To Australians, American politics can appear to be a glitzy and protracted soap opera, played out on the other side of the world with few consequences for us “down under”.

But Australians ought to be deeply concerned – for five...

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