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the ABC of screenwriting as demonstrated by ABC's The Heights

  • Written by: Philippa Burne, Lecturer, BFA Screenwriting, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne
the ABC of screenwriting as demonstrated by ABC's The HeightsRoz Hammond as Claudia in The Heights.Bohdan Warchomij/ABC

Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen.

The rule of three is a commonly held one for writers. It’s used for comedy (two relatively normal things are often followed by a third twist or stereotype), for...

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hope and action in the climate crisis

  • Written by: John Wiseman, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
hope and action in the climate crisisOptimism is an essential part of our climate solution. GoodThing Productions

It was framed as “the climate election”, but last week Australia returned a government with climate policies that make the task of building a zero-emissions, safe climate Australia even harder.

This result comes at a time when international studies are raising...

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Australia has been silent on Indigenous suicide for too long, and it must change

  • Written by: Julia Hurst, Faculty of Arts Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow, Indigenous and Settler Relations Collaboration, University of Melbourne
Australia has been silent on Indigenous suicide for too long, and it must changeFollowing the deaths of an alarming number Indigenous young people earlier this year, Australian leaders were urged to declare a 'national crisis'.Shutterstock

A body hangs over me. I am so close I can feel there is weight to the body. It seems to twitch in the stagnant air of the theatre with the last tendrils of spirit. There is nowhere to avert...

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Albanese gets clear run to leadership

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

Anthony Albanese will be Labor’s new leader, unopposed, with Jim Chalmers announcing on Thursday morning that he would not run for the position, saying he couldn’t be sure of winning.

Chalmers said that many people had urged him to stand “on a platform of generational change”.

They included parliamentary colleagues, ALP...

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  1. Blocking Huawei from Australia means slower and delayed 5G – and for what?
  2. Newspoll probably wrong since Morrison became PM; polling has been less accurate at recent elections
  3. how was the Earth made?
  4. Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison's politics
  5. How we solved the mystery of Libyan desert glass
  6. Where to now for unions and 'change the rules'?
  7. Eastern China pinpointed as source of rogue ozone-depleting emissions
  8. Why the 2019 election was more like 2004 than 1993 – and Labor has some reason to hope
  9. Rethinking tourism so the locals actually benefit from hosting visitors
  10. Aboriginal Australians want care after brain injury. But it must consider their cultural needs
  11. Wind in Albanese's sails as Chalmers weighs options
  12. With the LNP returned to power, is there anything left in Adani's way?
  13. New data shows sex offenders in Victoria are going to prison for longer
  14. don't judge, try to understand us
  15. In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard
  16. Sex trafficking's tragic paradox: when victims become perpetrators
  17. Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it's important
  18. Cutting interest rates is just the start. It's about to become much, much easier to borrow
  19. 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulation
  20. Aboriginal mothers are incarcerated at alarming rates – and their mental and physical health suffers
  21. From sharks in seagrass to manatees in mangroves, we've found large marine species in some surprising places
  22. some Western Australian reefs have the lowest coral cover on record
  23. 3 lessons from behavioural economics Bill Shorten's Labor Party forgot about
  24. The 'pulse' of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruption
  25. Ennigaldi-Nanna, curator of the world's first museum
  26. How close is Sydney to the vision of creating three 30-minute cities?
  27. Queensland paper backtracks after using violent imagery to depict Annastacia Palaszczuk
  28. Bowen carries baggage into Labor leadership contest
  29. US-China relations are certainly at a low point, but this is not the next Cold War
  30. Here's how to make opinion polls more representative and honest
  31. After Clive Palmer's $60 million campaign, limits on political advertising are more important than ever
  32. Teenagers need our support, not criticism, as they navigate life online
  33. Rockabul, a tale of a metal band in Kabul, reinvigorates the radical spirit of rock 'n' roll
  34. why do we lose our baby teeth?
  35. Curious Kids: why do we sigh?
  36. After 8 years of memes, videos and role playing, what now for Game of Thrones' multimedia fans?
  37. Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change
  38. Going up. Monday showed what the market thinks of Morrison
  39. Queensland and Tasmania win it for the Coalition
  40. 'Do no harm' isn't enough. Why the banking royal commission will ultimately achieve little
  41. Some of our foods have nano particles in them – should we be worried?
  42. First-year uni can add 4kg to your weight. Here's how universities can scale that back
  43. Migration is a growing issue, but it remains a challenge to define who actually is a migrant
  44. how India's ruling party is erasing the Muslim heritage of the nation's cities
  45. For an unlucky 10% of people with concussion, the symptoms may be long-lasting
  46. Jim Chalmers considers tilt at leadership
  47. We made a moving tectonic map of the Game of Thrones landscape
  48. Trouble in the Gulf as US-Iran dispute threatens to escalate into serious conflict
  49. are you up to date with your vaccinations?
  50. Labor's election loss was not a surprise if you take historical trends into account

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