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Editor's note
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This month the Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change released its report on what would happen if the world warmed 1.5°C. The conclusion: it’s slightly less disastrous than a world that warms 2°C.
So, how to stop climate change there? Judith Brett diagnosed one of the big problems for Australia: the government’s stubborn commitment to coal. Meanwhile Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty went hunting for
solutions in WA.
It’s not all so serious. Read about Leonard Cohen’s time on the Greek island of Hydra, the rise of the “mumpreneur”, and a stunning new look at Tasmania. Whatever you’re doing this Sunday, we hope you have time to grab a cuppa, pause, and reflect.
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James Whitmore
Deputy Editor: Arts + Culture
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Diagnosing the problem
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The government’s stubborn commitment to coal is alienating it from its natural supporters in the business community.
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Judith Brett, La Trobe University
The federal government's the stubborn commitment to coal is pulling the government’s economic policy towards the sort of state socialism it is supposed to abhor.
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Call to action
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Opportunities to help drive the energy transition are everywhere - even in Western Australia’s remote salt pans.
Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Nobel Prizewinning health researcher Peter Doherty reflects on the challenge of delivering a healthy climate for the world. From hydrogen power to wooden skyscrapers, the options are endless, but all require leadership.
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Cohen's island
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Hydra 1960, including Leonard Cohen (bearded, left) and Redmond Wallis (centre right in cotton shirt).
Photographer unknown. Reproduced with the permission of Dorothy Wallis.
Tanya Dalziell, University of Western Australia; Paul Genoni, Curtin University
Leonard Cohen's final (posthumous) book was released in Australia this week. Another new book sheds light on Cohen's life on Hydra in the 1960s and the relationships he forged with Antipodeans seeking liberation there.
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More great essays
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Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia
A growing number of parents are making money out of their children by turning them into social media celebrities. But the chimera of corporate branding is no antidote for lives lived in precarious times.
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Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London
In early 20th-century Australia, a series of highly publicised murders of women saw newspapers widely discuss sadism.
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Lyn McCredden, Deakin University
The enquiry into sacredness is not over, it’s just beginning for the 21st century, and in wildly disparate modes and places. In music, Nick Cave, Hozier and Dr G. Yunupingu have led the way.
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Tom van Laer, City, University of London
For decades, academics have been portrayed as brilliant, heroic men on our cinema screens. It's time to tell the story of more heroic female scholars. Here are some suggestions.
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A year on
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the General Assembly of the United Nations last month.
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Richard Shaw, Massey University
One year since Jacinda Ardern became prime minister, New Zealanders are refamiliarising themselves with the idea that the state can be a force for good.
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Thinking critically
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Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University
Some today declare that "Western civilisation" is something we should all be simply “for”. But the enlightenment, central to this civilisation, shows how things are rarely so simple.
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Adrienne Stone, University of Melbourne
Universities should very rarely prevent controversial speakers from spreading their message.
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The power of genes
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Ross L Jones, University of Melbourne
If those who survive are the fittest, does that also make them the best? And if so, is engineering 'better' babies just evolution, or another step in a long history of eugenics?
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Merlin Crossley, UNSW
Once genetic lesions for diseases such as cystic fibrosis and haemophilia were identified, the idea of replacing or correcting defective genes grew into what we now call "gene therapy".
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On the page and stage
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Cassandra Pybus, University of Tasmania
A new book connects disparate objects and texts to tell the story of Tasmania. It is an inspired enterprise.
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Zoltan Szabo, University of Sydney
Schiff persuaded his near-capacity audience to remain completely silent until the very end of each half of the program – a major coup.
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Explaining the world
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James Laurenceson, University of Technology Sydney
China is one of the world's largest economies, and Deng Xiaoping was arguably the man who made that happen through his visions of economic reform.
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Peter Tregear, University of Melbourne
“They have been crucifying Othello into an opera,” Lord Byron later wrote after watching Rossini's opera. But the performance does much to highlight the play's racial politics.
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Featured jobs
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RMIT University — Melbourne, Victoria
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University of Melbourne — Parkville, Victoria
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The University of Newcastle — Newcastle, New South Wales
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University of Western Australia — Perth, Western Australia
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Featured events
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Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) 1 Convention Centre Place , South Wharf, Victoria, 3000, Australia — The Conversation
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19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton campus, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia — Monash University
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Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus, Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Geelong, Victoria, 3220, Australia — Deakin University
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The Sofitel Arthur Streeton Auditorium, 25 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia — La Trobe University
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