Arts

Health & Medicine

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Culturally relevant messaging matters for First Nations peoples

A flowing river for arteries, a bare boab tree for depression. A project in the Kimberley shows how listening before we speak can improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people

Politics & Society

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Analysis

Debate over NDIS budget ignores the cost of workforce exclusion

While arguments continue over the value of the NDIS, deficit-based stereotypes for people with disability are quietly impacting our economy

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

Australia's arts sector needs more than words to survive

Australian artists are struggling. To support those who tell Australian stories, we need to go beyond the government’s Revive policy

Arts & Culture

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Research

How Pasifika communities are reconnecting with their past in Australian museums

When a Samoan ethnomusicologist visited Melbourne's Grainger Museum as a music student, she found objects her community had no idea were there. Now she's changing that

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

What The Devil Wears Prada 2 says about the state of print media

In 2006, Runway magazine was the place everyone wanted to be. Twenty years on, the fictional fashion media giant is at crossroads – but just how close to reality is Miranda Priestly’s situation?

Politics & Society

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Research

A cut, a colour and the burden of care work

Hair and beauty salons are described as spaces of self-care. But when people share more with their hairdresser than their therapist, who is really doing the care work?

Politics & Society

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Analysis

AI propaganda memes are the unexpected frontline of Trump's war with Iran

As Iran floods social media with AI-generated Lego memes mocking Trump, it's a sign that a new propaganda war is rewriting the rules of truth itself

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

The influencers with millions of followers who don't actually exist

They have lucrative brand deals and strong political opinions. They’re also not real. Behind the scenes, a handful of tech companies are rewriting the rules of global culture

Politics & Society

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Analysis

The Australia-EU trade deal runs deeper than tariffs

After a decade of negotiations, Australia and the EU have finally struck a deal. But beyond the tariffs lies something more consequential – a quiet reshaping of democratic alignment in an unstable world

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

Have ballet and opera actually benefited from a Chalamet Effect?

Timothée Chalamet called opera and ballet irrelevant. The industries clapped back, tickets sold – but now comes the harder task of keeping those audiences