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Alone together
Jessica Nelson | April 21, 2020Do you have a housemate who’s refusing to keep their social distance to help fight COVID-19? Here’s how a mental health expert suggests you respond to defuse the situation while keeping everyone safe.
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Casualties of the work from home revolution
Yolande Strengers | April 21, 2020Coronavirus is expected to start a working from home revolution for those not on the essential services ‘frontline’, or left unemployed, but this may prove a different experience for men and women.
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Helping year 12 students stay on track
Joe Sullivan | April 21, 2020As Term 2 starts for many students, COVID-19 means schooling at home has become a reality. So, how can parents and carers help? Particularly those in their final year of school?
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Will Covid-19 stump Trump?
Meghna Srinivas | April 21, 2020President Donald Trump’s chaotic response to the COVID-19 crisis has let the disease run rampant in the USA and his hasty attempts to open the economy again may leave more havoc in their wake.
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Risky business
Jessica Nelson | April 20, 2020Australian researchers have for the first time documented the unique risky feeding behaviour known as ‘strand feeding’ in Australian dolphins.
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Follow your animal instincts to all get along
Terry Bowles | April 20, 2020Self-isolating families can bring the worst out in each other, so here’s how to avoid becoming a shark, turtle or fox by channeling your inner penguin, teddy-bear or owl.
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Medical research must deliver the solution
Michael Mintrom | April 20, 2020There is an urgent need for more coordinated funding to fight COVID-19, both in terms of improving treatment and eventually developing a vaccine if we are to get on top of the crisis.
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8 adventures in “coronomics”
Tim Harcourt | April 20, 2020If the 1991 recession is the ‘recession we had to have’ then 2020 is the business slowdown we had to engineer to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, but what will be some of its economic ramifications in Australia and the rest of the world?
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How will Covid-19 change the world?
Open Forum | April 19, 2020Social science and humanities experts from Monash University offer their views on the implications of COVID-19 for our relationships, governments and society.
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Every cloud can have a silver lining
Jessica Nelson | April 19, 2020SIMS and Southern Cross University have successfully trialled world-first ‘cloud brightening’ technology on Great Barrier Reef to shade and cool large areas of coral at risk of bleaching.
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This non-sporting life
Brett Hutchins | April 19, 2020For the first time since the Second World War, the global sporting machine has ground to a standstill. Beyond the financial loss suffered to leagues and competitions, what is the effect on spectators?
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Triumph of the autocrats?
Arthur Stockwin | April 18, 2020Positive outcomes in the battle against COVID-19 may favour those who see strong government as desirable in its own right, but the upsurge in volunteering and group solidarity in many countries may point to a more optimistic future.