Ranked #1
Essays On Air: can art really make a difference?
Essays On Air: can art really make a difference?
Ben Quilty, Life vest, Lesbos. 2016, oil on polyester, 60 x 50cm Australian War Memorial Before the early 19th century, ... Read more
19 Apr 2018
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19mins
Ranked #2
Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy tales
Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy tales
Fairy tales are extremely moral in their demarcation between good and evil, right and wrong. Marcella Cheng/The Convers... Read more
8 Feb 2018
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16mins
Ranked #3
Essays On Air: The personal is now commercial – beauty, fashion and feminism
Essays On Air: The personal is now commercial – beauty, fashion and feminism
Eva Blue/Flickr, Southern Cross Austereo, CC BY-SASecond wave feminists protested against women’s magazines and beauty p... Read more
1 Mar 2018
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16mins
Ranked #4
Essays On Air: The cultural meanings of wild horses
Essays On Air: The cultural meanings of wild horses
Ongoing controversy around wild horses in Australia encompasses debate about their impact and their cultural meaning, ar... Read more
18 Jan 2018
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13mins
Ranked #5
Essays On Air: Reading Germaine Greer’s mail
Essays On Air: Reading Germaine Greer’s mail
From the initial avalanche of mail triggered by Germaine Greer's book The Female Eunuch grew a collection of 50 years of... Read more
1 Feb 2018
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17mins
Ranked #6
Essays On Air: On the Sydney Mardi Gras march of 1978
Essays On Air: On the Sydney Mardi Gras march of 1978
Marchers at the 1978 Mardi Gras parade. Sally Colechin/The Pride History Group, Author providedOn a cold Saturday night... Read more
22 Feb 2018
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23mins
Ranked #7
Essays On Air: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero
Essays On Air: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero
Why did this woman, so devoted to her political cause and to her vision of a united France, chose to be burnt at the sta... Read more
8 Mar 2018
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16mins
Ranked #8
Essays On Air: Monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths
Essays On Air: Monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths
The Loch Ness Monster and other folk tales might not be pure fiction, but actually based on memories of events our ances... Read more
29 Mar 2018
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17mins
Ranked #9
Essays On Air: Why libraries can and must change
Essays On Air: Why libraries can and must change
The much heralded 'death of the book' has nothing to do with the death of reading or writing. It is about a radical tran... Read more
25 Jan 2018
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16mins
Ranked #10
Essays On Air: When did Australia’s human history begin?
Essays On Air: When did Australia’s human history begin?
In July 2017, new research was published that pushed the opening chapters of Australian history back to 65,000 years ago... Read more
15 Feb 2018
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12mins