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Will your insurance cover bushfire loss?

VIDEO: Householders preparing for bushfire should reconsider coverage

Punch-ups for patriots

A cultural look at Australia Day violence

Our language in your hands

Mark Turin on the preservation of languages

Archival research into PNG migration

Scholarship supports archival research into PNG migration

Logan tension not caused by unemployment

Real reasons lost in rush of judgement

New prestigious scholarships awarded

The Excellence and Access scholarships target best and brightest

What future Australian content?

Australian-produced content is danger of disappearing from our screens

Breathing new life into old maps

How can information from old maps be transferred to current platforms?

Diplomatic tango with North Korea

US diplomat’s private mission comes at a tense time

How movie accents make us snobs

With film roles to characterise, language stereotypes are an easy sol

How the Franklin protesters won fight

Thirty years ago, Connors spent Christmas in jail during the blockade.

Arabs in France in the Early 19th Century

Ian Coller on the making of Arab France

National award for La Trobe photojournalism student

Award for intimate portrayal of the life of a burlesque dancer

In defence of invasive species

Species change and species extinction are agents of biodiversity

Towards a philosophy of science

Applying ancient thinking to modern science to solve great dilemmas

What will we really lose?

Nicholas Ostler talks endangered languages on Radio National.

Without a god, we need a mythical mate

The battler and the digger have become modern-day dieties

10 million LTU on iTunes U downloads

More than 325,000 subscribe to LTU subjects on iTunes U

Post-Cyberpunk translation published

Amazon releases a La Trobe academic's Spanish translation

A profile of A. D. Trendall

Gillian Shepherd and Ian McPhee on Arthur Dale Trendall