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'I didn't know that world existed': how lesbian women found a life in the armed forces

  • Written by: Shirleene Robinson, Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor's Innovation Fellow, Macquarie University
'I didn't know that world existed': how lesbian women found a life in the armed forcesCadets march in the 2014 Sydney Mardi Gras. Jake Badior/Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY-NC-ND

Jennifer, who signed up to the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) in 1979, told me that “until I joined the Army, I had no awareness of gay people. I had no awareness that I was gay, I didn’t know that world existed.”

This...

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The elephant in the planning scheme: how cities still work around the dominance of parking space

  • Written by: Elizabeth Taylor, Vice Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
The elephant in the planning scheme: how cities still work around the dominance of parking spaceAll that land set aside for parking is also an opportunity to ask what the real value of parking space is.Tequast/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Car parking is expected but often unnoticed, taking up surprisingly large proportions of city space. A parking bay occupies at least 13 square metres – some codes specify up to 30 square metres...

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Tasmania the first test in an election-laden year

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

The March 3 Tasmanian election, announced on Sunday, will be the opening contest in an election-heavy year that will see three state polls, with the expectation of federal byelections as well.

But, Malcolm Turnbull says, people won’t be casting a national vote until the due time of 2019 – although Labor is working on contingency plans...

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