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Politics & Society

Episode 2: Strengthening multiculturalism in a time of conflict

In this Episode of In Pursuit of Knowledge we ask why multiculturalism in Australia appears to be under significant strain, and what can we do to repair it?

Informed Opinion

An adult takes a smart device from an angry child

Banning kids from social media? There’s a better way

The Australian government’s plan to ban kids from social media overestimates the tech available to limit access and overlooks the benefits

Fresco showing a woman so-called Sappho holding writing implements from Pompeii

Ancient teens were full of existential angst too

What you’re going to do with your life is one of the big questions young people grapple with. But rest assured, some of history’s greats went through it too

A pixelated image on a mobile phone

Big tech and porn platforms are the real perpetrators behind 'sickening' deepfakes

The AI-generated child sexual abuse deepfakes at a Melbourne school were created by a teenage boy, but we can’t ignore the real perpetrators

Arts & Culture

The archaeology of olive oil in the ancient world

Olive oil is liquid gold. It’s been precious to humans for almost eight thousand years – used in everything from birth to death

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Scaring the daylights out of our body clocks

Our circadian rhythms refuse to be ruled by daylight savings, which is why things may still feel off-kilter a week after the switch

Melbourne’s pollen riddle

While most of us are familiar with grass pollen and how it triggers hay fever and asthma, researchers find ‘other’ pollen can actually be more abundant in the air

Explaining Melbourne’s crazy but predictable weather

Melbourne’s weather is renowned for its variability, but it is still predictable, explained partly by its position on a large hot continent close to the cold Southern Ocean

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