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We Weren’t Ready for a Female Prime Minister

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After the week we’ve just had, even the most ardent supporters of the view that Gillard has had it no worse than her male counterparts would probably have to concede: we weren’t ready for a female Prime Minister. We’ll never …
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Weekly Round-up

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‘Inside The Immortality Business‘ – Josh Dean, Buzzfeed “We humans have gone to space and cloned numerous species, not to mention invented the Internet, transplanted organs, and successfully installed bionic limbs, but if you were to rank our boldest experiments from …
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Weekly Round-up

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As well as the below, our new weekly columns started up this week: ‘Just 10% Human‘ by Daniel Sprockett, ‘Leopard Print in the Ivory Tower‘ by Annika Blau, and ‘The Economics of Contentment‘ by John Treadgold. – Is Google Glass Dangerous? – …
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Natural Breadwinners

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How animals attracting the tourist dollar are also saving their environment. A boat drifts above the Great Barrier Reef. A long rope is tied to the stern and thrown into the water. Land is just a memory on the horizon, …
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Column: The Economics of Contentment – Part One

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Letting the good times roll We’re continually told that we’re the “lucky country,” and yet public sentiment resembles a nation gripped by depression. Is it that our economy isn’t strong, that it is and we just don’t realise, or is it …
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Column: Leopard Print in the Ivory Tower – Part One

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On Breast-Milk Jewelry: an anthropological reading Why don’t we examine Kanye West with the same rigour as The Cantebury Tales? Is Lady Gaga as revealing as the census? Columnist Annika Blau will be turning a critical eye towards cultural artefacts, both …
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