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The case for the music of Jean Sibelius

  • Written by The Conversation
imageDuring the 1890s Sibelius cemented his position as Finland’s leading composer.Allan Watt/ Helsinki, Sibelius Monument

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), and it will surprise few that celebrations are scheduled to continue year-round in his homeland and elsewhere. But why...

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The NBN: why it's slow, expensive and obsolete

  • Written by The Conversation
imageFederal Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull (right) lends a hand rolling out NBN fibre at Queanbeyan, near Canberra, in June 3.AAP Image/Lukas Coch

The Abbott Coalition government came to power two years ago this week with a promise to change Labor’s fibre to the premises (FTTP) National Broadband Network (NBN) to one using...

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Property developers pay developer charges, that’s why they argue against them

  • Written by The Conversation
imageProperty developers are vested interested when it comes to discussion of the impact of infrastructure charges.AAP/Paul Miller

A good rule of thumb in debates on who bears the economic cost of a policy change is to look at the positions taken by vested interests in the matter. If anyone is going to know if they bear the cost, it is those who pay. In...

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  1. What South Africa will be sacrificing by hosting the Commonwealth Games
  2. Giving faces to South Africa's missing children
  3. How South African universities are governed is the biggest challenge
  4. When should you take antibiotics?
  5. Australia can get the balance right on free trade and worker's rights
  6. FactCheck: Does Australia take more refugees per capita through the UNHCR than any other country?
  7. What is it about a republic that stumps our leaders?
  8. Revealed: a new way to test your 'biological' age
  9. Only a global response can solve Europe's refugee crisis
  10. What's really at stake if the China FTA falls through
  11. New prion disease raises questions about whether Alzheimer's and Parkinson's could be infectious
  12. Media and social responsibility at a time of radicalisation
  13. Forest loss has halved in the past 30 years, latest global update shows
  14. So much talk about 'the brain' in education is meaningless
  15. Australia needs more state fossil emblems, but let the public decide
  16. Britain after the Blitz: how to rebuild a city fit for a post-conflict population
  17. Why football embraces migrants
  18. How earning the right to an opinion on the Internet makes it that much more valuable
  19. How does the Lexus hoverboard actually work? A scientist explains
  20. Are mass protests in Guatemala and Honduras the start of a 'Central American Spring'?
  21. Voluntary euthanasia: beware of the godly!
  22. Beyond Hungary: how the Czech Republic and Slovakia are responding to refugees
  23. Profs: Small government is bad for your pursuit of happiness
  24. Your questions answered on the Paris climate summit
  25. The generation game: how society loads the dice against the young
  26. Rough sex gives way to romance in the latest Lady Chatterley
  27. International aid budgets could go twice as far – here's how
  28. In defence of magpies: the bird world's bad boy is simply misunderstood
  29. Lessons from history: the Blitz, the building boom and the people left behind
  30. By accident or design, Thai junta extends its rule
  31. Heat on Abbott to expand overall refugee intake in Syrian response
  32. Health Check: Stressed at work? How to beat common traps in the rat race
  33. Why the Commonwealth endures despite being written off by the left and the right
  34. Interview: have oil companies learnt anything from the Niger Delta crisis?
  35. What the use of ochre tells us about the capabilities of our African ancestry
  36. Uganda's private schools must stop snubbing language learning policy
  37. What South African farmers can do to protect endangered grassland birds
  38. Restoring and conserving nature in the Anthropocene means changing our idea of success
  39. Committee recommendations improve citizenship bill, but fundamental flaws remain
  40. G20 growth goal not helped by Hockey's 'boring' budget
  41. Can the Senate force the removal of a royal commissioner?
  42. The off-topic Conversation #59
  43. Two years in, even supporters despair of Abbott's feeble government
  44. Successfully absent: Elena Ferrante’s Italian books
  45. The cheapest way to heat your home with renewable energy – just flick a switch
  46. There are fewer males at university, so should they be an equity group?
  47. Back to black: why melancholia must be understood as distinct from depression
  48. Can you be allergic to your Wi-Fi?
  49. FactCheck Q A: Did coal seam gas or the economic downturn cause US carbon emissions to level off?
  50. How on-call and irregular scheduling harm the American workforce

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