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  • David Brooks

    The real Ern Malley

    Join David Brooks as he offers fresh theories on one of Australia's most notorious literary hoaxes at this Sydney Writers' Festival event.

  • 50 Objects 50 Stories exhibition

    Amazing stories

    A new exhibition at our Nicholson Museum shares some of the most riveting tales behind the artefacts in its vast collection.

  • Wheat field

    Going hungry

    We are on the verge of a global food crisis in the next few decades, writes Chris Barrett, a visiting professor from Cornell University.

  • Professor Robyn Ewing

    NAPLAN threat

    With increasing emphasis on high-stakes testing like NAPLAN, arts education will continue to be relegated to the margins, writes Robyn Ewing.

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    Winter School

    Winter School can help you graduate sooner or make up a failed subject. Online enrolments are open now.

Research

Simon Tormey

OccupySWF

This Thursday Professor Simon Tormey, chair of the School of Social and Political Sciences, will be discussing the shifting tides of politics with John Keane and authors Loretta Napolen and Chad Harbach as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival.

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Indigenous

Peter Minter

Turning tide

Join us on Thursday for the first Turning the Tide discussion. Dr Peter Minter will chair a panel with Indigenous writers Lionel Fogarty, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Larissa Berendt on the state of Indigenous literature today.