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Should writers only write what they know? What I learned from my research

  • Written by: Tresa LeClerc, Sessional teacher, RMIT University
Should writers only write what they know? What I learned from my researchWriting is an act of imagination - but when it comes to imagining other people's lives, it pays to do your research. Shutterstock.com

As an academic in creative writing, I attend a lot of literary events. One question I can always count on being asked is, “can I write characters of other backgrounds?” This has been a growing concern...

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how has it come to this in Western democracies?

  • Written by: Joseph Camilleri, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
how has it come to this in Western democracies?Malcolm Turnbull has blamed the conservative faction in the Liberal Party for the 'insurgency' that led to his resignation as prime minister.Lukas Coch/AAP

The Liberal leadership spill and Malcolm Turnbull’s downfall is but the latest instalment in a game of musical chairs that has dominated Australian politics for the best part of a decade.

Fo...

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Political leadership cannot be disentangled from collective psychology

  • Written by: Andrew Frain, Teaching Fellow, Strategic Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Australian National University

Much has been made recently of the revenge motives of Tony Abbott, and the seemingly self-defeating choices of the Liberal Party room in changing our prime minister from Malcolm Turnbull to Scott Morrison.

While these may be partially true, such narratives are a distraction from what’s really at the heart of events like Turnbull’s fall...

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law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us

  • Written by: Josh Nicholas, Deputy Editor: Business + Economy, The Conversation
law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging usGovernments can use nudges to influence our choicesShutterstock

What can governments do to stop increasing obesity rates, help people save or get them to file their tax returns on time? The default answer used to be some kind of tax or penalty. Just make people pay more and they’ll do the right thing, right?

But what if you could encourage...

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  2. Labor to propose new measures to put downward pressure on gas prices
  3. Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini
  4. Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense
  5. Five of the scariest antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past five years
  6. A new project shows combining childcare and aged care has social and economic benefits
  7. The great movie scenes: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
  8. World politics explainer: The Great War (WWI)
  9. Full response from Mathias Cormann for a FactCheck on corporate tax cuts and the US economy
  10. have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages?
  11. Look up Australia, cable cars could ease our traffic woes
  12. Party leaders need to address federal parliament's intolerable workplace culture: Phelps
  13. How Australia can fix the market for plasma and save millions
  14. Australian universities to benefit in Australia-Indonesia free trade deal
  15. Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
  16. Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
  17. What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
  18. Peter Dutton's decisions on the au pairs are legal
  19. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals' leadership spill and the controversy around au pair visas
  20. whose name on the laws of physics for an expanding universe?
  21. Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warnings
  22. What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled down
  23. Australian politics and the psychology of revenge
  24. Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero
  25. what role does ministerial discretion play in the Chelsea Manning visa case?
  26. For Pacific Island nations, rising sea levels are a bigger security concern than rising Chinese influence
  27. Children’s well-being goes hand in hand with their dads’ mental health
  28. why the UN has found Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya
  29. Female corporate leaders make firms less likely to fall foul of environmental laws
  30. done right, awareness-raising days can pack a punch
  31. the art of the colonial kangaroo hunt
  32. why do our muscles stiffen as we age?
  33. how to provide suitable and affordable housing for ageing people
  34. When AI meets your shopping experience it knows what you buy – and what you ought to buy
  35. online retailing is changing our lives, whether we use it or not
  36. Leaks target Peter Dutton over decisions on au pairs
  37. The high costs of our destructive coup culture
  38. Sarah Kane's controversial 1990s play Blasted feels prescient in the #MeToo era
  39. How augmented reality may one day make music a visual, interactive experience
  40. Court opens door to domestic violence victim to sue police for negligence
  41. Belly fat is the most dangerous, but losing it from anywhere helps
  42. Training won't end discrimination, we have to hold people responsible
  43. Spring is coming, and there's little drought relief in sight
  44. journalist David Neiwert on the rise of the alt-right in Trump's America
  45. Sex, technology and disability – it's complicated
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  47. A 'woman problem'? No, the Liberals have a 'man problem', and they need to fix it
  48. Gender quotas and targets would speed up progress on gender equity in academia
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