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Editor's note
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Sean Connery wanted her phone number. Timothy Leary wrote “I’ve loved you long”. For more than 50 years, men and women affected by Germaine Greer’s work have written to her – and in many instances, she wrote back.
Lachlan Glanville has spent the past year reading Greer’s correspondence, now stored in 120 boxes at her archive in Melbourne. Her work, he writes, has brought together novelists and gardeners, actors and academics, prisoners and housewives, “perhaps not always in agreement, but in conversation”.
And are the languages being taught in schools really the best ones to learn? Warren Midgley looks at which languages are likely to help students get ahead.
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Suzy Freeman-Greene
Arts and Culture Editor
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Top story
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Penny Gulliver wrote to Germaine Greer several times over two decades.
University of Melbourne Archives, Germaine Greer Archive, 2014.0042.00350, Correspondence with Penny Gulliver
Lachlan Glanville, University of Melbourne
Fifty years of correspondence is stored at the Germaine Greer archive. It ranges across topics as diverse as US politics, grassroots feminism, gardening and Queen Victoria's underpants.
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Education
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Warren Midgley, University of Southern Queensland
There is usually a historical reason why schools teach certain languages. But as new economies emerge, such languages may no longer be the best ones to learn.
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Politics + Society
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Vincent Schiraldi, Harvard University
Australian jurisdictions should enact permanent solutions to juvenile justice crises that replace large and ineffective youth prisons with a safer, more decent alternative.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The impatience of Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce with some among the Liberals is palpable.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The government this week introduced a bill that aims to put a stop to secret agreements between employers and unions without the knowledge of union members.
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Robert Freestone, UNSW
Building a second Sydney airport will be a demanding engineering project. But the real challenge will be one of governance needed to choreograph the mix of old and new city that will surround it.
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Health + Medicine
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Michael Stokes, University of Adelaide; Peter Psaltis, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
Anti-inflammatory pain killers such as ibuprofen should no longer be available for sale in grocery stores, but instead restricted to pharmacies.
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Christine Lin, George Institute for Global Health; Andrew McLachlan, University of Sydney
Prescriptions of the drug pregabalin to treat sciatica have skyrocketed in recent years. But a new study shows it brings only side effects, and not relief for sufferers.
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Libby Callaway, Monash University; Kate Tregloan, Monash University
New rules offer the possibility of an inclusive Australian society that enables people with the highest disability-related support needs to have equal access to mainstream services including housing.
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Business + Economy
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Maria Yanotti, University of Tasmania
The Economics Society of Australia (ESA) Monash Forum polled economists on whether capital gains tax deductions for housing investment should be removed.
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Richard Holden, UNSW
Australia's central bank is still trying to walk a delicate tightrope.
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Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney; Emma Power, Western Sydney University
We now value the house as a wealth builder, not just a place to live in and raise a family. The result is a distorted investment market that makes home ownership and rental unaffordable.
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Environment + Energy
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Erin O'Donnell, University of Melbourne; Julia Talbot-Jones, Australian National University
New Zealand's Whanganui River and the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers in India have been given the right to 'sue' over issues like pollution. The challenge now is to ensure these legal rights are enforced.
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Science + Technology
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Jamie Freestone, The University of Queensland
If you make science entertaining then people are prepared to pay attention.
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Nicolas Suzor, Queensland University of Technology
A proposed tweak to the copyright laws should make it easier to reversion protected works for people with disabilities.
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Arts + Culture
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Victoria Tedeschi, University of Melbourne
The Industrial Revolution choked English cities in smog, filled rivers with waste and spread disease in crowded cities. At the same time, fairy tales about humans destroying nature proliferated.
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FactCheck
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Alexandra Wake, RMIT University
On Q&A, government minister Zed Seselja remarked that surveys showed confidence in media has fallen globally. In Australia, he said, it has dropped lower than in the US. Is he right?
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