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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.
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Solid rock
Open Forum | January 19, 2022Australian researchers have developed an efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries.
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Building resilience in remote Aboriginal students
Open Forum | January 19, 2022More than 1,000 students and teachers from remote Northern Territory schools are implementing a new Skills for Life resilience programme.
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2021 in the Pacific
Kerryn Baker | January 18, 2022The Pacific Islands saw dramatic change in 2021 with the threatened exit of Micronesian states from the Pacific Islands Forum, the fall of the region’s longest serving political leader, growing geo-political tensions and the impact of COVID-19.
