Australian History

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Health & Medicine

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Opinion

Could climate change bring malaria back to Australia?

Australia eradicated malaria back in the late 1970s, but as our climate continues to change, could the deadly disease make a return?

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Health & Medicine

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Opinion

Could climate change bring malaria back to Australia?

Australia eradicated malaria back in the late 1970s, but as our climate continues to change, could the deadly disease make a return?

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Politics & Society

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Opinion

‘Labor is a fair-weather friend of unionism’

With various Australian elections on the horizon, it shouldn’t be a surprise Labor governments are distancing themselves from the CFMEU. It’s happened throughout their history

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Health & Medicine

Dental care and healthcare are the same thing

A new book on the history of dental health in Victoria calls for a greater focus on prevention and more government-funded dental services

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Politics & Society

A new Australia Day for everyone

26 January is a divisive and illogical date to celebrate our country. An alternative date acknowledges Indigenous history while also reflecting modern Australia

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Environment

Lockdown ‘field trip’ reveals whereabouts of Australian grasshoppers

Using old field notes and new technology, researchers used COVID lockdowns to retrace the steps of pioneering Australian insect surveyors, virtually

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Arts & Culture

Conserving the world’s oldest processional dragon

For the last year, Grimwade Conservation Services has been conserving Loong 龍, the oldest intact Imperial processional dragon in the world

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Arts & Culture

Zanuckville: Australia’s strangest suburb?

In the 1950s, the Hollywood Western came to Australia, but the cast and crew needed somewhere to stay. The South Australian government came up with ‘Zanuckville’

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Arts & Culture

Bringing a living archive to life

The Living Archive challenges the idea of what an Indigenous museum collection can be and could become

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Arts & Culture

Uncomfortable truths from a town to a nation

The storytelling in Tennant Creek is a microcosm of Australia’s struggle to come to terms with its past

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