Arts

Medieval painting of young ladies and men in a church

Arts & Culture

The Decameron: Medieval lockdown project or ‘wine-soaked sex romp’?

Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century masterpiece, now a Netflix series, shows the universality of human responses to a pandemic (along with some sex)

A trade unionist walks past a CMFEU banner

Politics & Society

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Opinion

‘Labor is a fair-weather friend of unionism’

With various Australian elections on the horizon, it shouldn’t be a surprise Labor governments are distancing themselves from the CFMEU. It’s happened throughout their history

The Paris 2024 Olympics logo is displayed near the Eiffel Tower

Politics & Society

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Opinion

Is this summer a moment of truth for France?

As we head into the Paris Olympics, has the dream been compromised, even ruined, by other upheavals in France’s fevered summer?

Side on head shot of Pita Limjaoenrat

Politics & Society

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Q&A

‘If there are two tigers in one cave then what happens?’

Pita Limjaroenrat may have won Thailand’s elections, but he isn’t Prime Minister. He says he’s still hopeful his country will become a true democracy, without the military in government

A pixelated image on a mobile phone

Politics & Society

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Opinion

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

The fight to save Syrian antiquities thumbnail image

Arts & Culture

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

Canvas painting with bright orange line horizontally through the middle

Discussion & Debate

“It is a clarion call to action”

The importance of truth-telling cannot be denied if our journey towards national reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and Settler Australia is to be achieved

Shelf of books by Stephen King

Arts & Culture

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

Seven member pop group dancing and singing on a stage

Arts & Culture

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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

Woman exasperated at mobile message

Arts & Culture

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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