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Helping kids catch up in the pandemic recovery
Open Forum | January 24, 2022Researchers have warned that children and adolescents must not be left behind in Australia’s COVID-19 recovery plans given the negative indirect impacts of the pandemic on this age group detailed in a new brief and research review by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
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Remembering two giants of Australian art
Catherine Speck | January 24, 2022Australia lost two important artworld figures in the last ten days – both were senior artists working in Adelaide but with a reach extending far beyond the city or the nation.
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Reforming Australia’s medical billing
Open Forum | January 24, 2022New research reveals GPs and specialists are ill-equipped to manage their Medicare compliance obligations, and have trouble accessing accurate advice and education, which can lead to billing errors. It finds that structural reforms are urgently needed to address the problem.
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Australia’s COVID performance flatters to deceive
Tom Westland | January 23, 2022Australia managed the COVID-19 crisis better than many other countries, but there are still too many instances where policies and responses appeared ad hoc or unintelligible, driving up costs, illnesses and deaths.
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Lies, damned lies and COVID statistics
Richard Holden | January 22, 2022Rather than deal in ‘pleasing’ platitudes, federal and state governments should tell us everything they know about COVID infections, hospitalisations and deaths. So why don’t they?
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There aren’t plenty of big fish left in the sea
Open Forum | January 21, 2022Humans have selectively bred domestic animals to change their size, shape and behaviour for thousands of years, but pressure on wild populations is also imposing a form of ‘artificial selection’.
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Lessons learned from the Manchurian crisis
Honae Cuffe | January 21, 2022Australia’s muted reaction to Japan’s invasion of Manchuria 90 years ago mirrors the current policy towards China’s aggression against its neighbours in its balance of economic self-interest against the need to contain a voracious opponent.
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Keeping coral reefs connected
Open Forum | January 21, 2022A team of international researchers, led by Macquarie University, have shown the importance of maintaining connections between coral reefs to maintain their health and biodiversity.
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Are you a workplace chameleon?
Craig Donaldson | January 20, 2022Many employees still feel the need to disguise their true selves to blend into conformist work cultures.
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New virtual reality experience reveals secrets of WWII submarine
Open Forum | January 20, 2022A new virtual reality experience developed by maritime archaeologists offers unprecedented access to a WW2 submarine sunk while on a secret mission in northern Australian waters.
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Tonga explosion highlights Pacific cable vulnerability
Dale Dominey-Howes | January 20, 2022The damage caused by the volcanic eruption in Tonga highlights the potential danger posed to submarine internet cables connecting Australia and the Pacific to the rest of the world.
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Indigenous science cooperation
Alan Stevenson | January 19, 2022Many scientists rely on Indigenous people to guide their work – by helping them to find wildlife, navigate rugged terrain or understand changing weather trends – but we must also acknowledge the troubling attitudes that have long plagued research projects in Indigenous communities.
