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Editor's note
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Literary critics once scoffed at the idea of a ‘gothic’ tradition in Australia - we lacked the genre’s crumbling castles and wild moors, after all. Yet as Emma Doolan writes, Australian writers and artists have made the genre their own, exploring the dark side of the Australian experience.
Take Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Mad Max films and Nick Cave and Kylie’s duet Where the Wild Roses Grow, to name a few examples - these works all belong to an Australian Gothic tradition that took root alongside colonisation.
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Rosanna Hunt
Deputy Editor: Arts + Culture
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Top story
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The ‘gothic’ genre was once thought to be inapplicable to Australia. But there is a strong gothic tradition in Australian literature and film, seen in examples like Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Emma Doolan, Southern Cross University
Gothic texts are not all bloodsucking vampires and howling werewolves. An Australian Gothic tradition took root alongside colonisation, influencing writers from Marcus Clarke to Alexis Wright.
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Arthur Loureiro, Study for ‘The spirit of the new Moon’ 1888, oil on canvas.
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Purchased 1995. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant with the assistance of Philip Bacon through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. Celebrating the Queensland Art Gallery's Photograph: QAGOMA
Mitch Goodwin, University of Melbourne
50 years after Apollo 11, a new exhibition considers artistic responses to our celestial neighbour. As we retreat from human space exploration, our relationship to the moon has become virtual.
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Business + Economy
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Philip Lowe is on the cusp of permanently changing Australia. He stands a good chance of being one of the best governors since the first, who ushered in the goal of full employment.
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The Conversation's distinguished panel predicts unusually weak growth, dismal spending, no improvement in either unemployment or wage growth, and an increased chance of recession.
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Politics + Society
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
A parliamentary inquiry into press freedom is merely a public relations exercise designed to buy time until the public anger over last month's police raids dies down.
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Hugh White, Australian National University
China's naval strategy has been to prevent America from ever projecting its power by sea in the Asia-Pacific region again. Now that it's worked, the region needs to take notice.
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Health + Medicine
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Simon Chapman, University of Sydney
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Clare Collins, University of Newcastle; Hannah Brown, University of Newcastle; Megan Rollo, University of Newcastle
Women who have had gestational diabetes during pregnancy are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. But regular checks, a healthy diet and exercise are can help to manage this risk.
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Science + Technology
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Thuong Hoang, Deakin University; Guy Wood-Bradley, Deakin University
In VR you can explore the world from a different point of view. And studies have shown that experiencing new perspectives in the virtual world can alter your behaviour in real life.
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Lauren Gawne, La Trobe University
Instead of worrying that emoji is replacing competent language use, we can celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language.
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Cities
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Benjamin Kaufman, Griffith University; Abraham Leung, Griffith University
From Apple Music to Netflix, subscription services are on the rise. It's time transport followed suit.
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Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University; Jordi Piera Jimenez, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
The digital overlays of Pokémon Go reinvented Sofia’s everyday experiences of mundane spaces. And she became an outstandingly super-cool grandmother in the eyes of her grandson, Diego.
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Environment + Energy
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Nerilie Abram, Australian National University
Greenland's ice made headlines in June, as warm weather made for unseasonably widespread melting. And though this summer is still unfolding, the human fingerprint on Greenland's ice can't be denied.
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Kelly Dombroski
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Education
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Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University
Free inquiry has always been a fraught business, from Eden to Facebook, but is a key component of any open society. It shouldn't be taken for granted.
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