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Renovation tips for a green home
Amelia Atkins | June 19, 2018If you’re planning a domestic renovation, incorporating a few eco-friendly elements will make your home more energy and water-efficient, less harmful to the environment, and friendlier to your wallet too!
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Take some simple steps to beat anxiety
Olivia Remes | June 18, 2018Do you suffer from anxiety? Have you tried just about everything to get over it, but it just keeps coming back? Perhaps you thought you had got over it, only for the symptoms to return with a vengeance? Whatever your circumstances, science can help you to beat anxiety for good.
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Why soccer is falling behind AFL and rugby in Australia
Steve Georgakis | June 18, 2018While soccer has a long history in the Australian sporting landscape, soccer has seldom challenged Rugby League and Australian Rules Football in popularity. The early 21st century boom is over but Australian success in the 2018 World Cup and domestic reform could offer a way forward.
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Pygmy perches once swam across arid Southern Australia
Open Forum | June 18, 2018Pygmy perches were, at some point in ancient history, able to swim east to west in freshwater in a area of central southern Australia which is now completely dry, suggesting rivers once flowed in areas of the country which are now completely arid.
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Resources curse PNG communities’ future
Michael Main | June 17, 2018Two recent reports on the massive ExxonMobil-led PNG LNG project have brought renewed attention to the undesirable economic and social impacts of Papua New Guinea’s largest-ever resource extraction enterprise.
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The ‘criss-cross’ history hidden in a colonist’s letter
Katherine Ellinghaus | June 17, 2018A colonist’s letter of 1839 is crammed with adventure, but holds a deeper and unsettling insight into the history of Australia’s frontier conflict.
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Investing in coral reefs could protect global communities
Open Forum | June 17, 2018Coastal development and climate change are increasing the risk of flooding for communities across the globe. Unfortunately, the coral reefs which provide a first line of defense to countries around the world are being rapidly degraded.
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Why do medical specialist consultation fees vary so much?
Andrew Trounson | June 16, 2018A new report highlights the wide variation in fees and earnings among medical specialists, pointing to the need for more transparency in healthcare charges
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Australia’s future in space
Peter Jennings | June 16, 2018After decades of prevarication, the arrival of the Australian Space Agency is a very welcome development. Business is buzzing with the potential for expanding space-related work and Defence has never been better equipped with space-enabled platforms and technology.
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The cow with the face of a bulldog
Isabelle Dubach | June 16, 2018Scientists have used the latest genetic and anatomical techniques to study the remains of a cow with a short face like a bulldog that fascinated Charles Darwin when he saw it in Argentina 180 years ago.
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This is not a drill: A cyberthreat reality check
Ali Moore | June 15, 2018It’s difficult, if not impossible, to find a security expert who doesn’t think that a major cyber-attack on Australia with potentially devastating consequences is inevitable at some point in the future.
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Bringing to light what goes on in the shadows
Brendan Nicholson | June 15, 2018Allegations of appalling behaviour by a small number of Australian special forces soldiers accused of killing unarmed prisoners in Afghanistan must be properly investigated but also raise questions about the overuse of special forces compared to infantry personnel.
