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In Ride Like a Girl, Rachel Griffiths feminises the traditionally male hero's journey

  • Written by: Lisa Dethridge, Coordinator Masters of Media Professional Research; Game Design Research, RMIT University
In Ride Like a Girl, Rachel Griffiths feminises the traditionally male hero's journeyTeresa Palmer, centre, as Michelle Payne in Ride Like a Girl.Transmission Films

Review: Ride Like a Girl

Award-winning actor Rachel Griffiths takes the reins on a large cast and crew to direct and co-produce this timely biopic. We focus on a rambunctious, country family with finely drawn brother-sister and father-daughter subplots.

The luminous...

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Keep your job options open and don't ditch science when choosing next year's school subjects

  • Written by: Tracey-Ann Palmer, Lecturer, Initial Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney
Keep your job options open and don't ditch science when choosing next year's school subjectsStudying chemistry can take you into many careers, from an analytical chemist to a forensic scientist and even an environmental consultant.Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com

Thousands of Year 10 students are in the process of choosing subjects for their final years of school and half will probably choose to ditch science.

For someone like me who thinks...

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why Australians think sporting bodies provide strongest leadership for public good

  • Written by: Adam Karg, Senior research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
why Australians think sporting bodies provide strongest leadership for public goodOf the sports examined, netball was ranked highest in terms of overall leadership for the greater good.AAP/Darren England

Australians love sport. Whether it be record crowds at the recent Boomers v USA basketball game, or the record numbers who sign up as loyal members of our professional teams, sport plays a major role in the Australian community....

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when your favourite programs come back from the dead

  • Written by: Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland
when your favourite programs come back from the deadWilliam McInnes and Sigrid Thornton in the original series. Could a new Seachange possibly capture the romantic tensions of the original?ABC

In Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, caretaker Jud Crandall warns against burying bodies in the old Indian burial ground. “They don’t come back the same”, the old man drawls, with a mix of...

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  1. Women have made many inroads in policing, but barriers remain to achieving gender equity
  2. Drugs don't affect job seeking, so let's offer users help rather than take away their payments
  3. New law gives NZ police discretion not to prosecute drug users, but to offer addiction support instead
  4. Mark Butler calls for "ruthless" re-examination of Labor policies, including on climate
  5. why does Saturn have rings?
  6. Environment laws have failed to tackle the extinction emergency. Here's the proof
  7. There's an obvious reason wages aren't growing, but you won't hear it from Treasury or the Reserve Bank
  8. People want and need more housing choice. It's about time governments stood up to deliver it
  9. Johnson's missteps about to send weary voters to another election as the EU divorce gets ugly
  10. Rudd's rental affordability scheme was a $1 billion gift to developers; Abbott was right to axe it
  11. Fewer casual positions and less out-of-hours work could help retain early career teachers
  12. 'It felt like a prison' – too many young Australians are still stuck in nursing homes
  13. Where 'woke' came from and why marketers should think twice before jumping on the social activism bandwagon
  14. how to adopt the science without discriminating
  15. Sarah Henderson wins her way back to parliament
  16. Australia has met its renewable energy target. But hold off on the champagne
  17. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the economy
  18. The air above Antarctica is suddenly getting warmer – here's what it means for Australia
  19. how Doctor Who shapes public attitudes to science
  20. New Zealand launches plan to revive the health of lakes and rivers
  21. two new five-year arts plans
  22. what home gardeners can learn from nature's rebirth after fire
  23. Locking up legally innocent people before their trial is straining Victoria’s prisons
  24. Can we heal teeth? The quest to repair tooth enamel, nature's crystal coat
  25. 50 years of the Kaldor Foundation
  26. Many sick and disabled people are refused permanent visas. We need compassion not discrimination
  27. lessons from stone – Indigenous thinking and the Law
  28. female jockeys are more prevalent, but still treated as outsiders
  29. a source of dangerous bacteria in remote communities' water supply
  30. 3 ways planners can defy the odds to promote good health for all of us
  31. NAPLAN tests are not tough enough for the level of maths students are studying
  32. Vital Signs. Sure, economic growth is low, but think about what's gone right
  33. When schmoozing the PM gets you a black eye
  34. Journalism is failing climate change
  35. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on a slowing economy
  36. the truth about electric vehicle emissions
  37. With conventional wisdom, answers to our economic malaise are in short supply
  38. Trump trails leading Democrats by record margins, plus Brexit latest and the LNP leads in Queensland
  39. Tiny specks in space could be the key to finding martian life
  40. Relaxing pharmacy ownership rules could result in more chemist chains and poorer care
  41. Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads
  42. what exactly do musical conductors do?
  43. Thinking of seeing a psychologist? Here's how to choose the therapy best for you
  44. Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine
  45. Apple iPhones could have been hacked for years – here's what to do about it
  46. Outgoing ASIO head hopes for greater public preparedness to defend Australian sovereignty
  47. Why we've the weakest economy since the global financial crisis, with few clear ways out
  48. Agriculture a likely stumbling block in free trade negotiations between NZ and EU
  49. why are some people affected by sleep paralysis?
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