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Editor's note
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The slurs and booing directed at Indigenous footballer Adam Goodes during his time playing for the Sydney Swans highlighted a racism that plagued both Australian Rules football and our wider culture. Goodes called out this racism, but as a new film shows, the hatred subsequently directed at him affected him deeply.
This film, The Australian Dream, was written by journalist Stan Grant and premiered last night at the Melbourne Film Festival. As Nonie May writes, it is both an affectionate portrait of a man, his sport and his country and an at times shocking indictment of our racist past.
The Australian Dream ends, she writes, on an optimistic note, but “if you love your footy, if you love your country, this is a must watch”.
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Suzy Freeman-Greene
Section Editor: Arts + Culture
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Top story
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Adam Goodes in The Australian Dream: in the film he talks of finding an identity in football and with The Sydney Swans.
Melbourne International Film Festival
Nonie May, University of Melbourne
A new film chronicling the impact of racism on Indigenous football star Adam Goodes is both a damning and hopeful portrait of contemporary Australia.
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s approach is for Labor to pick carefully which issues it takes to the wire.
AAP/Mick Tsikas
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Unexpectedly in opposition, Labor can't win right now - it can only cope as best it can.
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Sunburnt Victorian fields are set to become more common under climate change.
Fir0002/Flagstaffotos/Wikimedia Commons
Ben Henley, University of Melbourne; Andrew King, University of Melbourne; Anna Ukkola, Australian National University; Murray Peel, University of Melbourne; Rory Nathan, University of Melbourne
Hitting the Paris targets will go a long way to securing Melbourne's water supply against future pressure.
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Politics + Society
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Nick Economou, Monash University
Data show that low turn-out also happens in seats with a high proportion of Indigenous people, and seats with a high proportion of renters.
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Graeme Orr, The University of Queensland
Winning the case will be difficult, because it's not enough to show the posters were misleading – the petitioners will need to show it affected the outcome in the seat.
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Gregory Melleuish, University of Wollongong
Question time is meant to be about accountability. But in practice, it is an opportunity for ministers to strut their stuff and for everyone to shout as loudly as they can.
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Gabrielle Appleby, UNSW
Two former high court justices and constitutional experts have thrown their support behind the importance of a First Nations Voice to parliament.
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Education
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Jeff Wilks, Southern Cross University
The performance of Melbourne and Sydney on this international platform speaks volumes for the position of the country as a study destination.
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Cities
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Peter Walters, The University of Queensland; Naomi Smith, Federation University Australia
Hong Kong has few recognisable public places and none with the space for huge numbers of protesters. Instead, they have co-opted the streets and digital media as public spaces for protest.
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Business + Economy
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Richard Holden, UNSW
The winner will set the course of America for years to come.
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Elizabeth Sheedy, Macquarie University
"Balanced scorecards", of the kind countenanced by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, are inherently unbalanced.
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Health + Medicine
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Sarah Loughran, University of Wollongong
Should we be concerned about the health effects of 5G? The short answer is no – there's no substantiated evidence that the electromagnetic energy used by mobile telecommunications causes harm.
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Hassan Vally, La Trobe University
When a certain percentage of a population has been vaccinated, it prevents an infectious disease from spreading. But that threshold depends on the disease.
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