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  • A sweet solution to the sugar problem

    Julie Brimblecombe     |      October 13, 2020

    Away from the glare of metropolitan Australian cities and research centres a unique experiment helped reduce sugar consumption in the far north of the country.

  • COVID survives on surfaces longer than thought

    Cass Erbs     |      October 12, 2020

    CSIRO research shows the virus which causes COVID-19 lasts for 10 days longer than Influenza on some non-porous surfaces such as glass phone screens, stainless steel railings and banknotes.

  • Drought increases threat to global wetlands

    Open Forum     |      October 12, 2020

    University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands around the world.

  • How green hydrogen can become cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      October 12, 2020

    The green hydrogen revolution is coming, and Australia is perfectly placed to take advantage of it, according to a new analysis of production costs.

  • The Female Eunuch at 50

    Camilla Nelson     |      October 11, 2020

    Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in the popular imagination as a kind of shorthand for that world-historic moment when women said they’d had enough.

  • The history of the Hawkesbury

    Rachel Gray     |      October 11, 2020

    UNSW Sydney’s Grace Karskens reveals the complex and controversial history of the Hawkesbury River in her latest book People of the River.

  • Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey

    Sherry Landow     |      October 11, 2020

    It’s not rocket science – or is it? A UNSW Sydney astronomer explains how the right sci-fi watchlist can make physics easier to understand.

  • Louise Glück wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

    Nikolai Duffy     |      October 10, 2020

    The wonderful American poet Louise Glück has won this years Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel committee heralded her work ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’. 

  • Mobilising Victoria’s emergency workforce

    Jonathan Liberman     |      October 10, 2020

    Victoria’s COVID-19 Omnibus Bill highlights the central challenge of mobilising and managing the right workforce needed during a public health emergency.

  • A plan for social housing

    Hal Pawson     |      October 10, 2020

    The Community Housing Industry Association’s Social Housing Acceleration and Renovation Program (SHARP) would deliver an extra 30,000 homes and renovate thousands more over four years.

  • The future of work is here today

    Dawn Lo     |      October 9, 2020

    Business risks, innovation, customer engagement and the need to become truly “omnichannel” will be critical factors in adapting to the new normal.

  • Forewarned is forearmed

    Brendan Nicholson     |      October 9, 2020

    Army chief Lieutenant General Rick Burr has written to all of Australia’s soldiers to prepare them for the release of a report expected to contain shocking allegations that a small number of troops carried out multiple war crimes in Afghanistan.