By Sukhmani Khorana, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
Season two gives us a multifaceted, everyday reality. In exploring banal multiculturalism, the show gets closer to showing us everyday Australia.
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By Barbara Caine, Professor of History, University of Sydney
In 1970, Sexual Politics explained why sexual relationships – and indeed sex itself – are political. ‘The world was sleeping,’ wrote Andrea Dworkin of this book. ‘And Kate Millett woke it up.’
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By Oliver Bown, Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
‘Uncanny’ AI music generators blur the line between creators and consumers. Will they turn music from high art to an everyday language? Listen to these AI-generated tracks and judge for yourself.
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By Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
One of the earliest descriptions of someone with cancer comes from the fourth century BC. Satyrus, tyrant of the city of Heracleia on the Black Sea, developed a cancer between his groin and scrotum. As the cancer spread, Satyrus had ever greater pains. He was unable to sleep and had convulsions.
Advanced cancers in that part of the body were regarded as inoperable, and there were no drugs strong enough to alleviate the agony. So doctors could do nothing. Eventually, the cancer took Satyrus’ life at the age…
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By Henry Cutler, Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
Waiting times for public hospital elective surgery have been in the news ahead of this year’s federal budget. That’s the type of non-emergency surgery that covers everything from removing cysts to hip replacements.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA), a powerful doctors’ lobby group, has called on the federal government to allocate more…
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By John Rose, Professor of Sustainable Future Transport, University of Sydney
Andrea Pelligrini, Lecturer, Sustainable Mobility, University of Sydney
How long will it take for electric vehicles to cut emissions and improve air in our cities? Longer than we think – because petrol and diesel make up almost all of the fleet.
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By Giselle Natassia Woodley, Researcher and Phd Candidate, Edith Cowan University
Sarah Vrankovich, PhD Candidate, RMIT University
Sharyn Burns, Associate Professor, Curtin University
There are big gaps in the way schools approach gender, sexuality and respect. Teaching all students to be ‘porn literate’ is one way we can help make them safer.
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By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
Ellen Reeves, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool
Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
A domestic violence disclosure scheme is a resource people can check to find out if a particular person has a documented history of domestic violence.
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By James Graham, Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
The strategy seems to offer the best of both worlds – live in a place you can’t afford to buy while getting a foot on the property ladder elsewhere. But it’s not a panacea for our housing market woes.
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By Christopher Bruce, Professor Emeritus, Economics, University of Calgary
To minimize the effects of future pandemics, it is not enough that we recognize deficiencies in our responses to COVID-19; we must start to build policies for the next pandemic as soon as possible.
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