Dev Patel in "The Green Knight"

The Green Knight review: a wonderfully unsettling cinematic reimagining of the medieval story of...

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By Sabina Rahman, Macquarie University Review: The Green Knight, directed by David Lowery. Nothing about The Green Knight, the new film from director David Lowery, is...
The Wiggles

Emma is hanging up the yellow skivvy: how the ‘first girl Wiggle’ created a...

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By Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney When Emma Watkins took over as “The Yellow Wiggle” in 2012 there were huge headlines. Her casting was...
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Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is...

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By Sung-ae Lee, Macquarie University Squid Game, an original Netflix drama produced in South Korea, is a streaming phenomenon. Released on 17 September, within two...
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Fitting in or falling out: how African migrants adapt to life in Australia

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By Victor Counted, Western Sydney University and Andre M.N. Renzaho, Western Sydney University As of 2020, over 281 million of the world’s population live outside...
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9 tips to give yourself the best shot at sticking to new year’s resolutions

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By Joanne Dickson, Edith Cowan University For many cultures, the dawn of the new year is marked not only with celebration, but also the opportunity...
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Three ways to achieve your New Year’s resolutions by building ‘goal infrastructure’

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By Peter A. Heslin, UNSW This article was first published in The Conversation on 1 January 2019 Every year most of us make New Year’s resolutions....
Have you firmed up your 2015 goals yet? Toni Blay

Symbolic gestures, magical thinking: New Year’s resolutions

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By Jayashri Kulkarni, Monash University This article was first published in The Conversation in December 31, 2014 “I will definitely give up smoking – that’s my...
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Feeling pressured to buy Christmas presents? Read this (and think twice before buying candles)

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Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology and Jana Bowden, Macquarie University Christmas marks a peak in consumerism across the West. Despite the COVID downturn, this...
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This video shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people sing together

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By C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW; Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, UNSW; Charitha de Silva, UNSW; Con Doolan, UNSW; Prateek Bahl, UNSW, and Shovon Bhattacharjee, UNSW Production of...
Mulan | Photo: Disney

Disney’s Mulan tells women to know their place

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By Sin Wen Lau, University of Otago and Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Deakin University Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan was released last week amid much controversy....