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Globalisation

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Women will be the key to dealing with the growth in population. Flickr/PhotograTree

Seven billion reasons to be a feminist

By Rob Brooks, University of New South Wales

SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE: I had better write fast. Sometime between my deadline to submit this story and the time it goes live, the estimated world population will exceed 7 billion for the first time ever…
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Protests continue - but are global economies now bound inextricably together?

Remember globalisation? It’s all around you

By David Lockwood, Flinders University

Remember globalisation? It’s not a term that’s much in vogue any more. Here at Flinders University, our globalisation program closed down last year. But if you were around in the 1980s and 1990s, you…
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Police dragged protestors away from the Occupy Melbourne protests one by one. AAP/Julian Smith

#OccupyMelbourne – an eyewitness account of overwhelming police force

By André Dao, Monash University

I received a text message on Friday morning from a friend at the Occupy Melbourne protest at City Square, saying that the protesters were about to be forcibly evicted. From my time in City Square the…

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