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Independent MP Helen Haines on using 'soft power'

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Helen Haines, MP for the Victorian regional seat Indi, made history at the election as the first federal independent to succeed another independent.

She was backed by grassroots campaigners, Voices for Indi, who had earlier helped her predecessor, Cathy McGowan, into parliament. But while McGowan towards the end of her time in the House of...

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Brian Toohey's Secret warns against Australia being 'joined at the hip' with US

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Brian Toohey's Secret warns against Australia being 'joined at the hip' with USToohey writes, among other things, about laws hustled through parliament in recent years that hamper journalistic inquiry.Shutterstock

When journalist Brian Toohey began researching his book Secret: The Makings of Australia’s Security State, he could not have foreseen publication would coincide with real-time overreach by government agencies...

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The Joker’s origin story comes at a perfect moment: clowns define our times

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
The Joker’s origin story comes at a perfect moment: clowns define our timesJoaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019): the Joker's humour-filled rebellion has typically contrasted with Batman’s dour moral self-righteousness. Warner Bros

The joker, the trickster, the jester, the provocateur - there is a rich cultural history of these roles going back at least as far as Greek mythology’s Hermes.

One of the most famous...

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Why do astronomers believe in dark matter?

  • Written by: Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University
Why do astronomers believe in dark matter?The universe is home to a dizzying number of stars and planets. But the vast bulk of the universe is thought to be invisible dark matter.Illustris Collaboration, CC BY-NC

Dark matter, by its very nature, is unseen. We cannot observe it with telescopes, and nor have particle physicists had any luck detecting it via experiments.

So why do I and...

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  2. Why Gladys Liu must answer to parliament about alleged links to the Chinese government
  3. Why Victoria’s new anti-vilification bill strikes the right balance in targeting online abuse
  4. Forensic science isn't 'reliable' or 'unreliable' – it depends on the questions you're trying to answer
  5. Australia's political lobbying regime is broken and needs urgent reform
  6. Another official Australian report has been doctored to gloss over rising inequality
  7. Trees can add $50,000 value to a Sydney house, so you might want to put down that chainsaw
  8. We need to stop perpetuating the myth that children grow out of autism
  9. regenerative farming can help grow food with less impact
  10. why companies should let their workers join the climate strike
  11. Liberal moderate Russell Broadbent will not vote for government's mandatory sentencing legislation
  12. what science says about how to lose weight and whether you really need to
  13. Climate change is bringing a new world of bushfires
  14. How might an apology feature in the new religious freedom bill?
  15. India's moon mission should be considered a success, and a lesson in spacefaring
  16. Here's what you can eat and avoid to reduce your risk of bowel cancer
  17. Arts education helps school students learn and socialise. We must invest in it
  18. Don't practice 'promiscuous partisanship', former public service commissioner warns bureaucrats
  19. the costs multiply in tropical cities
  20. How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the 'turf war' we see today
  21. In Ride Like a Girl, Rachel Griffiths feminises the traditionally male hero's journey
  22. Keep your job options open and don't ditch science when choosing next year's school subjects
  23. why Australians think sporting bodies provide strongest leadership for public good
  24. when your favourite programs come back from the dead
  25. Women have made many inroads in policing, but barriers remain to achieving gender equity
  26. Drugs don't affect job seeking, so let's offer users help rather than take away their payments
  27. New law gives NZ police discretion not to prosecute drug users, but to offer addiction support instead
  28. Mark Butler calls for "ruthless" re-examination of Labor policies, including on climate
  29. why does Saturn have rings?
  30. Environment laws have failed to tackle the extinction emergency. Here's the proof
  31. There's an obvious reason wages aren't growing, but you won't hear it from Treasury or the Reserve Bank
  32. People want and need more housing choice. It's about time governments stood up to deliver it
  33. Johnson's missteps about to send weary voters to another election as the EU divorce gets ugly
  34. Rudd's rental affordability scheme was a $1 billion gift to developers; Abbott was right to axe it
  35. Fewer casual positions and less out-of-hours work could help retain early career teachers
  36. 'It felt like a prison' – too many young Australians are still stuck in nursing homes
  37. Where 'woke' came from and why marketers should think twice before jumping on the social activism bandwagon
  38. how to adopt the science without discriminating
  39. Sarah Henderson wins her way back to parliament
  40. Australia has met its renewable energy target. But hold off on the champagne
  41. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the economy
  42. The air above Antarctica is suddenly getting warmer – here's what it means for Australia
  43. how Doctor Who shapes public attitudes to science
  44. New Zealand launches plan to revive the health of lakes and rivers
  45. two new five-year arts plans
  46. what home gardeners can learn from nature's rebirth after fire
  47. Locking up legally innocent people before their trial is straining Victoria’s prisons
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