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Editor's note
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to lower Australia’s immigration cap to ease pressures on Sydney and Melbourne. Jock Collins argues Canada’s Provincial Nominee Program shows how to successfully encourage immigrants to move to less populated parts of the country. A third of Canada’s economic migrants now settle outside Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, compared with just 10% in 1997.
Today the works of William Shakespeare are utterly respectable. But in the 16th century, Stuart Kells writes, the Bard had a rather different reputation. Indeed, his first published work, Venus and Adonis, was touted as an aid to “solitary pleasure”.
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Justin Bergman
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Top stories
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for a rethink of the ‘top-down’ approach to immigration in Australia, allowing states and territories more input.
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Jock Collins, University of Technology Sydney
The Canadian immigration model shows that giving states and territories a say in immigration policy can help take the pressure off major urban areas.
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Stuart Kells, La Trobe University
Shakespeare’s first reputation was as a poet, and particularly as a sex poet. He would later incorporate his bawdy inclinations into his most famous plays.
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Arts + Culture
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Meredith Lake, University of Sydney
The NSW government has purchased the land where Bennelong is buried. His third wife played a key role in the early colonisation of Australia.
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FactCheck
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Jennifer Buckingham, Macquarie University
Were the Victorian Greens correct about pubic school funding? We asked the experts to check the numbers.
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Environment + Energy
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Guy Dundas, Grattan Institute
Federal Labor has promised to give rebates of up to $2,000 to 100,000 households to install batteries to store power from solar panels. Is this good energy policy, or just middle-class welfare?
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Hubert Cheung, The University of Queensland; Duan Biggs, Griffith University; Yifu Wang, University of Cambridge
Trading rhino horn has been legalised in a bid to undercut poachers and the black market.
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Health + Medicine
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Leah Sharman, The University of Queensland
There are many theories around for why we cry and what may be happening in our bodies when we're doing it. But the research on all these things is fairly mixed, and culture plays a big part.
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Makungun Marika, Menzies School of Health Research; Alice Mitchell, Menzies School of Health Research; Anna Ralph, Menzies School of Health Research; Barungun Marawili, Menzies School of Health Research; Emma Haynes, Telethon Kids Institute; Minitja Marawili, Menzies School of Health Research
The disempowering effect of lack of knowledge, and the downstream impacts on health behaviours and outcomes, underpins the disadvantage of First Nations people.
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Business + Economy
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Weihuan Zhou, UNSW
China's so-called anti-dumping action against Australia is really an action against Australia's overuse of anti-dumping provisions. Barley producers are caught in the crossfire.
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Simon Segal, Macquarie University
Hong Kong's CKI taking over Australian infrastructure company APA Group has been ruled against the national interest. That's rare, but not a huge deal.
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Louise Metcalf, Macquarie University
The first bank to embrace radical honesty would do well out of the royal commission and leave its rivals in the dust. But it would be hard.
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Science + Technology
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Daniel Bonnano, La Trobe University
If you've been injury-free in your current sports shoe, and you’re performing at a level you are happy with, you may already have the right shoes on your feet.
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Wanning Sun, University of Technology Sydney
Findings from a new study suggest that the main source of news for Mandarin-speakers living in Australia is local, Chinese-language outlets accessed via WeChat.
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Cities
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Tanzil Shafique, University of Melbourne
The cities we build in turn shape our society. So when so many of us feel lonely, we should aim to apply what we know about the social impacts of design to help people connect with each other.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Labor's promise to subsidise batteries for households quickly became, in government parlance, “pink batts to pink batteries” - seeking to trigger memories
of Rudd's policy that cost several lives.
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Education
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Julie Hare, University of Melbourne
Most international students who study overseas feel positive about their experiences. But universities could be actively working with businesses in home countries to help secure jobs for graduates.
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