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For China, national amnesia has become a ‘state-sponsored sport’. Memories of events deemed sensitive by the state are not just forgotten, they are winnowed out and selectively deleted.
The Avontuur recently completed a sail-powered transatlantic cargo voyage.
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Sailing ships have been around for thousands of years - long before the advent of fossil fuels. With the global shipping sector now attempting to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, could sails be due a renaissance?
Konsep “kekuatan baru” bisa diaplikasikan pada jurnalisme digital modern.
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Sebuah buku baru tentang ‘kekuatan baru’ bisa membantu kita memahami perubahan di bidang jurnalisme seperti meningkatnya kolaborasi dan penggunaan teknologi digital untuk jurnalisme investigas
Medicare exists to ensure all Australians have fair access to health care.
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Labor has promised to review the tertiary education sector if elected next year. There are some major issues, and some examples from abroad they should consider.
With all the different types of yogurt on offer, making a decision on which one to buy can be difficult.
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Consuming yoghurt is associated with many health benefits. But with all the varieties of yoghurt, and added ingredients like fruits and probiotics, it can be hard to know which is best for your health.
Seorang polisi mengamankan lokasi pengeboman di Surabaya, Jawa Timur, 14 Mei 2018.
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A tougher security approach to terrorism may be counterproductive and could even potentially undermine the supremacy of civilian government in Indonesia.
A still from Daniel Crooks’ High Street (After Ruscha) 2017. Single channel video, 2:1, 4K, stereo, 17 minutes 52 seconds.
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In choosing not to ban the live export trade even in the hottest northern months, the federal government is allowing animals to be put in conditions where they cannot possibly escape suffering.
Parliament House is a citadel — the practices and representations of democracy have been segregated from the community.
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Every autumn Victoria copes with smoke haze from planned burns that reduce bushfire risk, but a large part of that pollution actually comes from industrial logging activity.
The more the market is willing to pay, the harder it is to regulate water use.
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Residents of a small Victorian town realised that delicious water can be a curse as well as a blessing, when they lost a legal battle to stop a local farmer shipping groundwater to a nearby bottling plant.
While this is Malcolm Turnbull’s 32nd consecutive Newspoll loss as PM, the past two have been narrow losses.
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Labor’s plan to axe franking credit refunds has reignited debate over the income and wealth of older Australians.
Rebekha Sharkie’s seat of Mayo is the most likely to change hands at the byelection, after she resigned in the light of the dual citizenship saga.
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While Labor is likely to win all four of the upcoming byelections in seats it holds, Rebekha Sharkie faces a tougher fight in the South Australian seat of Mayo.
eSports, which includes online multiplayer games like PUGB, is an industry forecast to reach nearly US$1 billion in revenue by 2019.
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PlayerUnknown’s Battleground - a multiplayer, fight-to-the-death video game - was the most downloaded game for the first quarter of 2018. It feels like an immersive experience of today’s nightmares.
China has its eye on technological dominance.
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Andrew Butt, RMIT University; Andrew Fisher, The University of Melbourne, and Shakira Hussein, The University of Melbourne
In the face of shocking footage of animals dying on ships, it seems impossible that our live export trade will remain as it is. Here are three areas to address.
Being in a park tends to make people feel more positive, although the time of day and the season also affect their moods.
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The positive mood of tweets varies with time of day and season, but it’s consistently higher in parks than in built-up areas, where people are more likely to express anger and fears.