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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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Francis Galton pioneered the concept of eugenics in this lab in London in the late 19th century. Flickr/Science Museum London

Eugenics in Australia: The secret of Melbourne’s elite

By Ross L Jones, University of Sydney

Eugenics — the science of improving the race —was a powerful influence on the development of Western civilisation in the first half of the twentieth century. And Melbourne’s elite were among its chief…
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Melbourne has been voted the world's most liveable city: but for who? flickr/glennnn

Liveability prizes are nice but we have to … er … live here

By Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University and Andy Scerri, RMIT University

City leaders and media across the world have been celebrating or commiserating over this week’s announcement of the annual “world’s most liveable city" rankings. Indeed, a resplendent Melbourne Lord Mayor…