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King Lear reincarnates as Geoffrey Rush – it's a bloody tragedy

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageLear's mordant images and sonorous cadences throb with dire warning and a sense of imminent catastrophe.James Green

In one sense every play staged is a play for its times. Something about it attracts, provokes or seduces the minds of the living artists who put it on. Books wait on library shelves to be read again, if not in the same way, then at...

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Feeding 'Godzilla': as Indonesia burns, its government moves to increase forest destruction

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageDrought and deforestation have proved to be a volatile combination in Indonesia.David Gilbert/Greenpeace, Author provided

In the midst of its worst fire crisis in living memory, the Indonesian government is taking a leap backward on forest protection. The recently signed Council of Palm Oil Producing Nations between Indonesia and Malaysia, signed...

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Australia should back calls to end coal and save its drowning neighbours

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThe low-lying islands of the Pacific such as Kiribati are vulnerable to sea level rise. AAP Image/Elise Scott

While all of us of will experience the effects of climate change most are not facing the inevitable disappearance of our country. Yet that is the case for the 92,000 inhabitants of Kiribati, as well as other low-lying island states across...

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