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Category: Humanities

  • How ‘the future’ connects across subjects

    How ‘the future’ connects across subjects

    By Jennifer Gidley ‘Today’s world is complex and unreliable. Tomorrow is expected to be more so.’ – Jennifer M. Gidley, The Future: A Very Short Introduction From the beginning of time, humanity has been driven by a paradox: fearing the unknown but with a constant curiosity to know. Over time, science and technology have developed, meaning that we are…

  • The Land Is Our History

    The Land Is Our History

    The Land Is Our History author Miranda Johnson was awarded the Australian Historical Association’s W K Hancock Prize, which recognises an Australian scholar who has published a first book in any field of history in 2014 or 2015.  To coincide with NAIDOC Week, here is an excerpt: The late 1960s was a watershed moment for…

  • What makes a literate nation?

    What makes a literate nation?

    An excerpt from Australian Literature for Young People by Rosemary Ross Johnston The arts – literature in all its forms, theatre and cinema, dance, music, drawing, painting and sculpture – both sustain and create literate nations. They are not an extra-curricular frill, but an integral part of communal and personal lives; they arm for the…

  • The long shadow of financial exceptionalism

    The long shadow of financial exceptionalism

    An excerpt from Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finances by Saving Human Rights by David Kinley Of the ailments of the financial sector and their causes, one stands out above all others: the  capacity of finance’s prevailing culture of self- assured exceptionalism (and the political clout it buys) to resist fundamental change. The world of…