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Environment

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Melbourne's strange and splendid skyline that never was

A giant Peach Melba, a skyscraper-sized crocodile, a steel ‘V’ taller than the Eiffel Tower: these were just some of the design ideas when Melbourne asked the world to reinvent its skyline in 1979

Politics & Society

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Indigenous legal services continue to challenge Australia's colonial justice system

A new book explores the complex relationship between Indigenous self-determination, Australia's justice system and government control

Arts & Culture

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Have you heard of the ‘Twin Film Phenomenon’?

A new book explores the curious case of twin films, where Hollywood's uncanny doubles reveal the secrets behind cinema's most intriguing coincidences and rivalries

Politics & Society

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‘Finding an Indigenous voice’

The second volume of the truth-telling initiative, Dhoombak Goobgoowana, shares the steps, and missteps, on the road to finding an Indigenous Voice at the University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

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‘Disrupt the blinding whiteness of business education’

First Nations businesses focus on unique and generative ways to engage with the economy. But Indigenous business education in Australia needs to catch up

Politics & Society

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‘The field of Indigenous Studies simply gets on with the job’

Indigenous Studies means becoming part of global conversations about the place of Indigenous knowledges and traditions in the world

Arts & Culture

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‘How we bring Indigenous knowledges into the academy is as important as the knowledge itself’

A new truth-telling book shines a light on the past, present and future of the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous cultural collections

Arts & Culture

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Taylor Swift is filling a ‘blank space’ in academic research

A new book explores how Swift studies is bringing the cultural phenomena of Taylor Swift into academia

Discussion & Debate

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‘AUKUS epitomises a pact more suited to the Cold War’

A new book argues that our focus on AUKUS and ongoing dependency on the US makes Australia less safe

Politics & Society

65,000 Years: A short history of Australian art

A new exhibition celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, while confronting the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history, has opened at the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art