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The AFL sells an inclusive image of itself. But when it comes to race and gender, it still has a way to go

  • Written by: Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, Victoria University
The AFL sells an inclusive image of itself. But when it comes to race and gender, it still has a way to goThe sexist trolling of Tayla Harris (left) focused attention on the lack of online moderation by the AFL when it comes to women's football.Daniel Pockett/AAP

A heart-warming ad kept playing on TV screens across Australia as Richmond kicked goal after goal against Greater Western Sydney on Saturday in the grand final of the Australian Football...

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which is smarter – a blue whale or an orca?

  • Written by: Kerstin Bilgmann, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
which is smarter – a blue whale or an orca?Blue whales and orcas are both specialists in their own way. You can't really measure which one is more intelligent. Shutterstockwhich is smarter – a blue whale or an orca?

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au.


Which is smarter: blue whales or orcas? – Prasaad, age 6.


There’s no simple answer. We don’t...

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Back to Back Theatre's exciting reframing of disability

  • Written by: Bryoni Trezise, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
Back to Back Theatre's exciting reframing of disabilityThe Shadow Whose Prey The Hunter Becomes turns the questions back on its audience: why are you sitting in this theatre? What do you hope will happen? Zan Wimberley/Back to Back Theatre

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes, directed by Bruce Gladwin, Back to Back Theatre

In 2009 I wrote an email to the artistic director of Back to Back Theatre,...

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Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg

  • Written by: Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg departs after speaking at the youth climate strike in Battery Park, New York.Peter Foley/EPA

Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg - a Nobel Prize nominee - as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address the climate crisis.

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