Arts & Culture
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‘The more you tell a story, the stronger the story becomes’
Indigenous-led songwriting is helping to celebrate cultural knowledge, revitalise language and improve wellbeing in a remote community in the central Kimberley
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The fight to save Syrian antiquities
Scholars across the globe have joined forces to preserve the beleaguered country’s cultural heritage for all our sakes
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After 50 years, why Stephen King is still relevant
Carrie, Pennywise and other Stephen King horrors endure because his stories are grounded in an authentic depiction of suburbia
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The spambots are coming for your job, Aldous Huxley
Robotic ‘Spam’ tins recreating dystopian fiction ask us to consider the role of AI, art and animals in society – and how they intersect
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Opinion
Is K-Pop going K-aput?
The Korean Wave is a global phenomenon, but there’s a dark side to South Korea’s soft-power strategy that we need to talk about
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No bandwidth to think is the cost of being time poor
Cyber time poverty can affect all of us as distractions from social media, work messages and 24-hour news, but we can fight back
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Universities can change names without distancing themselves from troubling histories
Removing a person’s name from a building need not mean the University severs its relationship with its past, instead it is an opportunity to redefine our future
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"Melbourne had no place for the ‘black’ Indigenous population in the ‘white Australian race'"
Before 1940, the University of Melbourne was the centre of Australian eugenics – and it didn’t end with World War II
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In this way, the beginning of a highly contested history of the University began
An Indigenous-led book challenges the presumption that universities make only ‘good’ contributions to the community – confronting the University of Melbourne’s disturbing history