Australian Vernacular Photography offers a look at our reality
By Molly Glassey, The Conversation
Opening this week, Art Gallery NSW’s latest exhibition, Australian Vernacular Photography, explores the Australian photographic landscape of the late 20th...
King hits: young men, masculinity and violence
By Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
The recent outcry in Sydney about “alcohol-fuelled violence” has many people asking whether young men are out of control,...
Careful who you chat with: it could turn you into a criminal
By Luke McNamara, University of Wollongong
Next time you strike up a conversation at your local coffee shop, have a chat in the pub after...
End of Tasmania’s forest peace deal heralds more uncertainty
By Russell Warman, University of Tasmania
Tasmania’s parliament yesterday passed new forestry laws to undo the state’s forest “peace” deal. The laws are the most...
There’s more to education than spelling and numbers
By Sue Roffey, University of Western Sydney
Headlines in newspapers on Monday morning said much of the curriculum review has been welcomed across Australia. The...
Victorian forestry is definitely not ecologically sustainable
By David Lindenmayer, Australian National University
By any scientific yardstick, forestry operations in Victoria cannot be regarded as ecologically sustainable. Much of the attention of...
Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bond Graham, Special to ProPublica, Oct. 13, 2014, 8 a.m.
In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art surveillance...
Deadly Force, in Black and White
by Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara ProPublica, Oct. 10, 2014, 11:07 a.m.
Young black males in recent years were at a far...
